Who Can Benefit?

• R&D professionals
• engineers (across all specialties), scientists and principal investigators
• project engineers
• facility engineers
• plant managers
• Anyone else who administers technical projects.
• individuals from non-technical fields who are new to project management

Course Objectives:

• Set practical and attainable goals for his project.
• Set realistic schedules that he can meet
• Develop and implement a project plan
• Save time and resources
• Cope with budget and time constraints
• Delegate in a fair and practical way within the project team

Course Outline:

• Foundations for Success: The Core Concepts
  • Concepts and Terminology
  • The Need for Project Management
  • Functions of Management
  • Life-Cycle Processes
  • Knowledge Area
• Project Teams Leadership
  • The Functions of Leadership
  • Communication, Motivation, and Solving Problems
  • Work Supervising
  • Behavior and Rewards
• Project Scope and Requirements
  • Project Documentation
  • Critical Success Factors and Critical Success Measures
  •   In-Scope and Out-of-Scope Conditions
  • Right Tools and Processes to Define Project Scope
• Project Work Plan
  • The Project Work: Definition and Documentation
  • Project Templates
  • Appropriate Levels of Work for Groups
  • Skills Needed to Achieve the Work
• Task Dependencies and Network Logic Diagrams
  • Logical Dependencies
  • Logic Network
  • The Critical Path

• Work Estimation
  •   Duration for Project Tasks
  • Labor Content for Project Tasks
  • Price Out the WBS
  • Estimate Network
• Integrated Project Plan
  • IPP: Creation, Documentation and approval
  • The Plan Communication to Others

• Projects Monitoring and Control
  • The Status of All Plan Parameters
  • Current and Future Variances
  • Reporting
  • Corrective Action
• Project Closure: Documenting Lessons Learned.
  • Close Out a Project 
  • Final Report for the Project
  • Lessons Learned"—Prevention, Detection, and Recovery