Project Management Workshops

Managing the Process

 Successful Project Management
Learn techniques for planning, implementing, and completing projects to produce desired results on time and within budget. You will use project management tools to set and achieve measurable objectives, estimate project time and costs, determine project scope, manage resource requirements, and control project results. Learn by doing as you actually plan, execute and control a project simulation.

 IT Project Management
Strengthen your IT project management skills through current information, case studies and project simulations. You will step through project management principles and the steps in closing a project. You will receive templates to use in creating project management processes back at the office.

Agile: What's New
Learn the various methodologies with the Agile environment. You'll explore how Agile teams are different from waterfall teams and how the roles interrelate in the Agile world. Get practical tips and techniques for applying Agile models. Consider some of the cultural challenges of converting between development models

Agile: Overview
See an overview of Agile models getting the most attention in Omaha workplaces: Scrum, Kanban, and Lean (including Lean Software Development). Understand the practical problems associated with adoption of any new practice. Learn about effective habits of low-tech management, about information radiators, and about feedback offered early and often. Get practical tips on applying one or more Agile models at your company.

 Communicating Projects Visually
People understand and remember better if information is presented visually. Yet most project information continues to be communicated verbally or in writing. In this workshop, you will discover the importance of visualizing project information and how to go beyond the standard Gantt chart to present it.

Engaging the People

 Becoming an Effective Leader
Learn how to lead (and follow) 360 degrees. With instructor's support and coaching, you can apply new skills and techniques in your workplace projects.

 Building 4-Dimensional Teams
Learn how to develop a high-performing team through recognizing and addressing the individual needs of members as well as collective needs of the group. Discover how a project/team leader's role changes as the team grows.

 Running Productive Meetings
It's been said that more important decisions are made in meetings than anywhere else. You may find that hard to believe - in view of the way most meetings are planned and conducted. Participants will actually run a meeting in the class.

Measuring the Progress

 Process Mapping for Business Improvement
Use a wide range of mapping tools and techniques to find out how your business really works and where crucial improvements are needed.

 Requirements Elicitation Methods and Models
Focus on how to define functions, attributes, constraints, preferences, and expectations from clients. Techniques to gather the requirements will start with Brainstorming and conclude with Reverse Engineering, with participants practicing at least five of the methods. This class is BABOK (Business Analysis Body of Knowledge) aligned.

Financial Considerations for Business Decisions
Learn how to read and interpret financial statements (income statements, cash flow statements, and balance sheets), create cash and capital budgets, and communicate your business ideas through the appropriate financial language.

Quality Tools for Project Managers
Good Project Managers are always on the look-out for tools to help them more effectively manage their projects. This class uses hands on learning to explore quality tools that project managers can use in a wide variety of situations to enhance project success.

Mastering the Technology

Microsoft Project
MS Project has millions of users but most don’t unlock the potential of this sophisticated software. Each student works on their own PC to gain the skills and techniques to use this powerful software to their advantage.

Microsoft Visio
Learn how to use Visio to visual represent pieces of your projects. The course is filled with interactive exercises that help ensure student success.

ALL PROJECT MANAGEMENT WORKSHOPS

Agile 101
Agile for Managers
Agile Software Development
Agile: What's Different?
Building 4-Dimensional Teams
CAPM Exam Prep
Communicating Projects Visually
Communicating with Project Stakeholders
Core Principles for Business Analysis
Expanding Your Leadership Potential
Exploring Project Risk Management
IT Project Management
PMP Exam Prep
Prioritize or Agonize!
Process Mapping for Business Improvement
Project 2010 Levels I & II, Microsoft
Quality Tools for Project Managers
Requirements Elicitation Methods and Models
Running Productive Meetings
Successful Project Management (HRCI pre-approved)
Taking Communication to the Next Level
Using Earned Value Management in IT Projects

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