Project Management

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EEI Training can help you accomplish your project management goals. We teach the latest skills, techniques, and software applications. Our instructors are all experts in the fields they teach and are always on the leading edge of new product updates and releases.

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Building a Strategy-Focused Organization

Today’s global marketplace presents unique challenges to organizations. With increased competition, increased demands, and global consumers, organizations must strive to improve organizational performance and ensure that every action, effort, and initiative aligns with the objectives of the firm. Aligning initiatives, communicating successes, identifying problem areas, mitigating risks, and achieving organizational objectives is critical to success.

• Conflict communications
• Developing a balanced scorecard for business and government
• Effective project communications, negotiations, and conflict
• Maximizing team effectiveness
• Project change management
• Project initiation and planning

Developing a Balanced Scorecard for Business and Government

Building on PMA_100, this course moves into the organizational assessment of leading and lag indicators and assists in the development of a “balanced” view of performance. This course outlines the basic methodology for developing performance metrics and key performance indicators in the creation of balanced scorecards. Additional topics include developing strategies, objectives, and goals, as well as aligning initiatives with corporate, departmental, and operational objectives.

• Building a strategy-focused organization
• Conflict communications
• Introduction to project management
• Microsoft Project I
• Performance measurement analysis

Earned Value Management Systems for Project Management

This course is designed for organizational managers at all levels, newly assigned program/project managers and project administrators, and those preparing for such positions. It is on ANSI/EIA-748-B, Earned Value Management Systems, and the Project Management Institute’s Project Management Body of Knowledge. Participants will be introduced to the measurements, tools, and techniques of project resources planning, scheduling and budgeting, performance measurement, analysis, and management reporting. Topics include:

• Resource planning and estimating
• Project budgeting
• Earned Value Management performance metrics
• Variance analyses
• Earned Value Management system reports

Effective Project Communications, Negotiations, and Conflict Training

This course teaches project managers what they need to know to lead projects through their initiation, planning, execution, and control phases. This course focuses on the skills needed to find common ground, overcome resistance, resolve disputes, and gain commitment to project management efforts. This course also details how facilitation and mediation can be used to enhance communication, resolve differences, and build relationships though the project management life cycle. Real-world project management problems and disputes are used in skill-building exercises to practice communication, negotiation, and conflict resolution techniques. Upon completion of this class, you will –

• Understand how to set project management communication, negotiation, and conflict resolution goals and strategies consistent with the four fundamental principles of interest-based negotiation
• Understand and recognize your own and others’ behaviors used in conflict situations, including what triggers behaviors and their effects on project management
• Understand what “new” or “replacement” behaviors are effective in conflict situations, consistent with interest-based negotiation principles, to improve project management communication, negotiation, problem solving, relationships, and conflict resolution
• Practice “new” behaviors in simulated negotiation situations to feel confident and comfortable trying them in the workplace
• Understand how to apply facilitation and mediation techniques to address normal (i.e., unassisted) group communication, negotiation, problem solving, relationship building, and conflict resolution behaviors to advance effective project management

Introduction to Project Management

This course is designed for newly assigned project managers and anyone preparing for project management, program management, and project administration positions. Based on the Project Management Institute’s Project Management Body of Knowledge, this course introduces the concepts, practices, and processes of project management. It covers the project life cycle processesand the associated project management knowledge areas. We will discuss the processes involved in project management, including:

• Initiating
• Planning
• Executing
• Controlling
• Closing

Maximizing Team Effectiveness

If your team is suffering from clashing or overly dominant personalities, lagging productivity, a lack of creativity, or resistance to change, you are not alone. Great teams are more than a baffling mix of chemistry and magic: they consistently employ the five key elements of team success. You will learn to –

• Identify missing elements in your team
• Understand the source of typical team problems
• Fix team problems
• Set up your future team success from the beginning

Performance Measurement Analysis

This course covers the methodology and best practices that can help you implement a successful performance measurement program capable of measuring organizational performance and assisting in the development of a continuously improving environment. In this course, you will learn about –

• Translating strategy into performance
• Developing quantitative measures for business processes
• Generating results-oriented metrics that can help your organization document its successes
• Developing stretch thresholds through trending and analysis
• Development and managing mitigation strategies using performance measurement

Project Change Management

The course is designed for newly assigned project managers and those preparing for project management, program management, or project administration positions. With the Project Management Institute’s Project Management Body of Knowledge as our tool, we will discuss the principles of change management as applied to project management and products. Topics include:

• Change control systems
• Configuration management
• Performance measurement
• Coordinating changes throughout the project
• Change management and project closure

Project Execution, Control, and Closeout

This course is a continuation of the Project Initiation and Planning course. Project Management Body of Knowledge principles such as scope, costs, and schedule management will all be discussed, along with change management principles. You will learn how to manage the day-to-day operations of a project, including risk management, schedule and cost management, status reports, management of expectations, and effective communications.

Project Initiation and Planning

Project initiation and planning are the first phases of the project life cycle, often referred to as the most important phases because improperly planned projects are likely to fail. This course will show you how to apply Project Management Body of Knowledge concepts such as project charter, work breakdown structure, risk management plan, change management plan, communications plan, schedule, and budget. You will learn how to incorporate all of these artifacts into a project management plan. Upon completion of this class, you will –

• Understand how to effectively plan a project using the Project Management Body of Knowledge
• Understand the value of properly initiating a project
• Understand the importance of comprehending all aspects of a project before commencing the project
• Know how to write a project management plan
• Understand the planning process and how effective planning positions the project for success
• Be able to apply the material to your project environment

Project Management for Publications

This intensive how-to session emphasizes assessing, planning, and managing publications projects. The focus is on the role of project managers in the publications workflow. Topics include:

• Defining the work plan
• Developing estimates
• Creating schedules

Project Management for Streaming, DVD, and Multimedia

If you have limited new media or production experience, this course will give you an overview of the steps involved in bringing a multimedia project to completion. Participants learn the creative process and how to manage all the resources required for multimedia, CD-ROM, DVD, or streaming production. Steps in the process include:

• Audience and purpose analysis
• Information and graphic design
• Planning
• Resources
• Managing the creative process
• Scheduling and budgeting
• Quality control
• Video and sound options

Participants receive Pre-Production Planning for Video, Film, and Multimedia or equivalent.

Project Management for Web Development

This course provides an overview of the steps involved in bringing a Web site to completion and then maintaining it. Participants learn the process and how to determine the resources required for Web site production and maintenance. Steps in the process include:

• Planning
• Documentation
• Staffing
• Budgeting
• Scheduling
• Contract considerations
• The human factor
• Quality control
• Programming

Participants receive The Little Black Book of Project Management and Secrets of Successful Web Sites or the equivalent.