2014

ADVANCED PROJECT

MANAGEMENT

ADVANCED PROJECT MANAGEMENT 1

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Overview This program is a comprehensive program designed for anyone who leads or directs projects, programs, or

parts of projects. It provides extensive training following the PMBOK® (Project Management Body of

Knowledge) standards specifically including Project Planning and Control, Determining Business

Requirements and has powerful hands-on project management planning in real-world project scenarios.

This Program covers the four key project management areas required to achieve the CBP Professional™

or CBP Master Executive™ designation:

The Project Initiation Stage

The Project Planning Stage

The Project Implementation Stage

The Project Closing Stage

Who Should Attend The course is recommended for project managers, senior executives, leaders, project team members,

business analysts and managers.

Course Outcomes 1. Define and explain project management and project leadership.

2. Understand and apply the sequential steps of the project management framework.

3. Apply the project process of initiating, planning, executing, controlling and closing the project.

4. Define the roles of the project manager, the project team member and effectively communicate with

the project team, clients and customer (sponsor)

5. Apply knowledge and skills to manage the project scope, project time and work flow, project cost and

budgets, project resources, project quality, project human resource requirements, project

communication (reports, meetings, correspondence, etc.) project changes and project risk

management.

6. Create a work breakdown structure activity list

7. Estimate activity duration and required resources

8. Prepare a Project Presentations and Final Project Report

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Our Approach

Our workshops, delivered by experienced project managers, use the latest active learning techniques to

learn by doing. We will develop your practical project management skills and behaviors whilst also

preparing you for project management qualifications.

Scope of Program:

Training Techniques’: Presentation. Discussions. Practice - Workshops

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Course Content:

Defining Project Management

Difference between functional and project management

Trends and the need for project management

Project Management efficiency

Roles of the Project Manager and the team - skills relationships, tools - responsibility and

accountability

Setting up a planning and Controls System.

Defining the Project

Defining scope of work

Types of projects

Time, cost and scope

Planning the Project

Estimating Activities

Work Flow - diagramming methods (Gantt charts, network diagram)

Sequencing Activities

Calculating the Critical Path

Preparing Schedules

Preparing resource Plans

Preparing Budget Plans

Getting Approvals and Compiling a Project Charter

Setting up a Monitoring and Control Process

Project communications

Procurement

Vendors and contract management

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Executing the Project - Implementing the Project Plan

Implementing the Procurement Plan

Quality Control and Assurance Measures

Controlling Project Objectives

Reporting on Project Objectives

Controlling Changes in the Project

Acceptance of Deliverables

Conducting Project Evaluations

Project Documentation

Managing Risk

Closing the Project

Project Leadership

- Understand how leadership styles relate to decision making

- Understand motivation theory

- Understand how to respond to interpersonal conflict

- Communicating Effectively

- Effective Meetings

Cost control

Time management

Hands-on Training Define project scope

Define project critical path

Creating and assigning resources to activities

Develop a project schedule and budget

Create a work breakdown structure activity list

Estimate activity duration and required resources

Managing multiple work calendars

Consolidating Schedules

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Language of Instruction

Unless otherwise stated the program instruction is in Standard Day-to-Day English. Participants can

request the instructor to provide a program vocabulary which will ensure they have no problem

understanding the content and can be facilitated a little bit by using Arabic language when necessary.

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Registration:

Date:

18 May , 2014

Venue:

EBC Training Center , Muscat

Duration:

4 Days

Registration Fees:

OMR 450

Fees Include:

Training Materials ( Soft & Hard Copies )

Coffee Breaks

Course Certificate