Organizational Impact

• Be able to take your Project Managers to their highest level of competency
• Differentiate your project management staff
• Have a clear career path for Project Managers
• Have Project Managers that can actually contribute to the bottom line by managing projects to be on time and budget.

Personal Impact

• Improve your knowledge of project management
• Be able to advance in your job with a proven level of competency
• Prove your competency, and your value to your organization

Be able to manage projects better

• Understand All of the areas of the PMBOK:   Integration Management, Scope Management, Cost Management, Time Management, Risk Management, Quality Management, Human Resources Management.
• Procurement and Contract, Management
  Communications Management, Professional Responsibility

Significantly enhance your project management knowledge and ability to manage projects.

• Learn about the Project Management Institute and the Project Management Professional certification
• Learn about the Project Management Body of Knowledge standard
• Learn about the nine knowledge areas of project management outlined in the PMBOK
• Learn about the five processes of project management outlined in the PMBOK
• Learn the logistics of taking the PMP examination
• Delegates will learn a lot about good project management practice which can find immediate application back in their work environment.

Project Managers,

Project technical team leaders,

Team members with planning or control responsibilities,

Others wishing to improve and  certify their project management skills.

This interactive Training will be highly interactive, with opportunities to advance your opinions and ideas and will include;

• Lectures
• Workshop & Work Presentation
• Case Studies and Practical Exercise

Videos and General Discussions

1. INTRODUCTION
2. Project Management Knowledge Areas
   • Integration Management
   • Scope Management
   • Time Management
   • Cost Management
   • Quality Management
   • Human Resources Management
   • Communications Management
   • Risk Management
   • Procurement Management
   • Professional Responsibility
3. Project Management Process Groups
   • Initiating processes
   • Planning processes
   • Controlling processes
   • Executing processes
   • Closing processes
4. Project Phases and the Project Life Cycle
   • Examples of Project Life Cycles
   • Stakeholders
   • Organizations
   • Project Management Skills

5. PROJECT INTEGRATION MANAGEMENT :Project plan development
   • Constraints and assumptions
6. Project plan execution: Change Control Management
7. PROJECT SCOPE MANAGEMENT: Initiation
   • Project Goals
   • Project Strategic Plans
   • Project Charter
8. Scope Statement and Definition
   • Project Justification
   • Project Objectives
   • Project Deliverables
   • Work Breakdown Structure
   • Change management
9. PROJECT COST MANAGEMENT: Resource Planning
   • Resource histogram
   • Project Management Software
   • Staffing Plans
10. Estimating and Forecasting
    • Cost and Schedule Estimates
    • Chart of Accounts
    • Present value
    • Types of Estimates
11. Analogous
12. Parametric
13. Bottoms Up
14. Top Down
15. Budgeting
    • Cost Baseline
    • Contingency Budgets
    • Management Reserves
16. Cost Control
    • Contingency management
    • Earned-value reporting
    • Revised Estimates
17. TIME MANAGEMENT
18. Activity Definition
19. Activity Sequencing
20. Duration Estimating
21. Schedule Development
    • Activity on Arrow Network Diagrams
    • Activity on Node (Precedence) Network Diagrams PERT
    • CPM
    • Gantt Chart
    • Milestone Charts
    • Optimum Schedules
    • Duration Compression
    • Resource Leveling
    • Resource Histograms
22. Schedule Control
    • Performance Management
    • Schedule Change Management
    • Project Management Software

• PROJECT RISK MANAGEMENT

24. Risk Identification
    • Group Dynamic Techniques
    • Experts
25. Risk Quantification
    • Risk Tolerance
    • Risk Impact
    • Risk Probability
    • Risk Severity
    • Expected Value
    • Priority Ranking
    • Statistical Techniques
26. Risk Response Development
    • Acceptance
    • Avoidance
    • Mitigation
    • Contingency Plans
    • Management Reserves
27. Risk Response Control
28. PROJECT QUALITY MANAGEMENT:
29. Quality planning
    • Determining Quality Policy
    • Economics of Quality
30. Quality Assurance
    • Quality Plans
    • Quality Audits
31. Quality control (QC)
    • Six-sigma rule
    • Zero defects
    • Quality Control Tools

• PROJECT HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

33. Organizational planning
    • Project organizational structure
    • Reporting relationships
34. Staff acquisition
    • Resource staffing
    • Negotiations for team members
    • The Delegation Process
35. Team development
    • Theories of motivation
    • Conflict resolution
    • Influence factors
36. PROJECT COMMUNICATIONS MANAGEMENT
37. Communication Process
38. Communications Management Plan
39. Performance Reporting
    • Performance Reviews
    • Earned Value Reporting System
40. Information Distribution
41. Administrative Closure
    • Work A rounds
    • Budget Control
42. PROJECT PROCUREMENT MANAGEMENT
43. Procurement planning
    • Contract Types
44. Solicitation planning
    • Vendor Selection
    • Evaluation Criteria
45. Solicitation
46. Source selection
47. Contract administration
48. Contract closeout
49. PROJECT MANAGEMENT PROFESSIONAL
50. Responsibility of the Project Manager
51. Ethical Practices in Project Management

CDGA attendance certificate will be issued to all attendees completing minimum of 80% of the total course duration.