Project Management and Planning
Project Management – Putting a Plan Together
Project Management – Executing the Plan & Tracking Progress
Project Management for the Rest of Us
Strategic Thinking in Times of Change

Project Management – Putting a Plan Together
This course is designed to give you an understanding of how to put a project plan together in a way that is simple yet effective. You will learn how to develop a structured approach to determine the steps necessary to satisfying your customer’s requirements. You will also learn about the basic concepts of the project management process and its life cycle orientation. Course topics include project risk assessment, defining project requirements, creating a “real” schedule, and establishing priorities. 2 days
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Project Management – Executing the Plan & Tracking Progress
Recommended: Project Management – Putting A Plan Together: This course covers how to get the team busy creating the project’s defined deliverables, once your project plan is put together and approved. You will learn the formal and informal use of Earned Value to statusing and forecasting project completion, how to forecast project completion with more confidence, and how to minimize changes and manage the work, the team, and the sponsor/customer’s expectations during this phase of the project. 2 days
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Project Management for the Rest of Us
During this 3-day course, participants will experience a practical application of project management principals and practices. You will be introduced to concepts of life cycle management, approaches to meeting project objectives, and the roles and relationships of all participants. You will learn the relevance of the technical analysis and reporting responsibilities of project teams in the areas of developing a project schedule and resource requirements, creating accurate estimates, identifying project risks, defining work requirements, establishing measurements, and reporting project status. 3 days
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Strategic Thinking in Times of Change
Provides a flexible and creative planning approach to take organizations, departments or teams from where they are to where they want to be in the next one to three years. Emphasizes current realities through the techniques of 1) external environmental scanning and 2) internal profiling for strengths and competitive opportunities. Some potential outcomes of a strategic planning process can include a written mission statement, a defined strategic direction, programmatic review, potential strategic partnerships, and team building.
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