Advanced Project Management
Training

About the program

The Advance Project Management Workshop is targeted for practicing project managers and senior managers looking to sharpen their project management skills. It will help in building knowledge and skills for leading and directing projects and delivering project results within various organizational constraints.

It is a complete course covering all the aspects of project managements and helps in balancing Time, Cost, Scope, Risk and Stakeholders requirements. It provides a platform to discuss real life project issues and finding solutions for the same using practical examples and case studies.

Highlights

It will meet requirement of 35 hours of contact training for applying for PMP®Certification exam and provide required knowledge to jump start the preparation of PMP®Certification. Attending this course will significantly improve the chances of passing the PMP® Certification exam on the first try.

Course Duration: 5 days (40 hours) 9:00 am to 6:00 pm

Discussion on project management best practices

A running case study

Spot quizzes and exercises

Audio and video

Post training support to resolve queries and project issues

Testimonials

Kavita Ghosh

Scientist E, HEMRL (DRDO)

"Workshop was very interactive and interesting. Things can be directly implemented to present assignments. Come with an open mind and try to adopt as much as possible."

Dr. M Anniyappan

Scientist E, HEMRL (DRDO)

"The knowledge gained will be implemented in future project ( pre plan). Good interaction I had during 5 days. Benefitted/gained knowledge base on the different areas of project management. It is must for all the scientist who willing to take project."

Amit Kumar

Integration Manager, Vanderlande

"Excellent content & delivery of the course from its trainer. Please come & learn with open mind the fundamental of Project management course."

Sandeep Bhagwat

SO/F, BARC

"Interaction was very good and practical hands-on generated good interest for the course. This training is recommended to every one so that more awareness is created about project management & its benefits for an organization like BARC."

Nikhil Narkar

Deputy Manager, HDFC LIFE

"Mr. Vivek Prakash sir, has covered coursein detail and explained the concept of project management. The workshop conducted helped to grasp the concept. All concept are covered."

Virtual Classroom

Need not to travel to training location. Saving time and avoid traffic manoeuvre.

Virtual classroom is not e-learning where you are alone.

It is an interactive program led by a trainer similar to physical classroom.

Recordings of all the sessions to revisit whenever required.

Support a greener world – No use of paper – 100% paper free.

Physical Classroom

More effective communication due to presence of body language.

More disciplined as being watched by the trainer all the time.

More personalized as many clarifications are done over casual discussions.

Casual discussion over tea and lunch help make bonding.

As people are used to this mode of learning, they find it more comfortable.

Training Outline

The Project Management Fundamentals Training will cover important aspects of project management.

Project Management Framework

Project Management Concepts.
Project Phases & Lifecycle.
Project Management Processes & Knowledge Area.
Triple constraints.

Project Initiation

Project Charter– Set direction for the project
Stakeholder Analysis – Set direction for the project

Project Planning

Defining Scope – Prepare scope statement and create a good WBS
Estimate Efforts, Time and Cost – Tools to estimate projects
Resource planning – What skills are required at what time in what quantity?
Scheduling – Prepare a schedule and identify critical path
Budgeting – Prepare a time phased cash flow
Communication planning– Who needs what information at what time and how to deliver
Quality planning – Prepare plan for quality assurance, control and define metrics
Risk Planning – Identify risks, analyze their impact and prepare a response plan
Procurement Planning – Plan to buy product or services from outside.

Project Execution

Acquire Team – Build team with right people
Develop project team – Build a productive environment and motivate team
Assess Project performance – Collect execution data and measure project metrics
Communication –Performing effective communications with stakeholders
Stakeholders – Engage stakeholders in the project
Procurement – Select a seller and sign agreement

Monitoring & Control

Control Scope Changes – Change Management
Control Schedule – Continuous adjustment in schedule based on the progress
Control Cost – Track and control cost against time phased budget (EVM)
Quality Control – Employ various quality control tools and control defects
Risk Monitoring – Identify new risk and re-assess risks in risk register
Control procurement – Ensure compliance to contract

Project Closure

Lesson Learned – Document what went well and didn’t go well
Transition the product to operations

Trainer's Profile

The Founder and Chief Consultant at pmwares is a Certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and Microsoft Certified Professional with more than 25 years of experience. Currently, he is driving Project Manager’s Club of Pune – A not for profit initiative in association with College of Engineering, Pune (COEP)

Passionate about project management, he trains, coaches and mentors project managers, senior managers and leadership team to excel in project management and employ best practices. He provides advisory services to corporate for building strong project management capability, develop robust project management processes, setup effective project management systems and support managers on the job for implementation.

Vivek Prakash

Founder and Chief Consultant

Who can attend?

Sr. Managers

Project Managers

Program Managers

Executives

Project Lead

Delivery Managers

Project Directors

Have any corporate inquiries? Contact us for further information.

Frequently asked questions

What is Microsoft Project?

Microsoft Project (MS Project) is a project management tool from Microsoft used to prepare project schedule, tracking project status and present customized reports to stakeholders. MS Project is a leading project management software used by project managers across industries.

Why is Microsoft Project important?

Often people get confused between MS Project and Excel due to its appearance however these two tools are entirely different. Excel is a general purpose tools used for various purpose whereas MS Project is very specific tool for managing projects. People feel they can learn and use MS Project like Excel and other office tools however MS Project implements project management principles, concepts and calculations and therefore much more complex to use than other office products. Like a complex machine requires proper training for it usage to get required output, MS Project also requires proper training for its effective usages to get required output. Without MS Project Training, one can make several mistakes and use bad practices that will make the life of project manager miserable with little productive outcome. The MS Project Training will make the person to use best practices, use the MS Project effectively and save precious time to spend on managing projects and team. To use Microsoft Project, training is a must.

Which industry or company use MS Project intensively?

MS Project is used across the industries. All major to minor companies use MS Project to effective plan, track and report their projects. It is equally popular in all types of industries.

Does it make sense to use MS Project Professional without having MS Project Server?

Yes, it does make sense. One can do all planning, tracking and reporting using MS Project Professional without project server. Project server will actually make collaboration among team and stakeholders easy. The main strength of Project Server is not planning or tracking but collaboration. MS Project server is multifold costlier than MS Project Professional. You can plan and track projects but collaboration like sharing project plan, collecting actual status, updated actual data in the schedule, sharing MOM, sharing documents, managing risk & issues etc. manually in the absence of project server.

How much this course is hands-on?

80% of MS Project Training is hands-on. We teach some basic concepts of project management that are necessary to understand MS Project. Remaining part is all hands-on. We teach through case studies. We take a project, schedule it, optimize it, track it and report it in the class. We also provide independent case study for participants to plan and track the projects so that they are confident that they can start using the tool from very next day.

Which version of MS Project will be used in the training?

Will you use Project Standard or Project Professional?

We use Project Professional and recommend the same. Project Standard lack some of the features that may be critical and therefore we recommend Project Professional for the training.

Will it cover all features of MS Project?

But you also do not need to know all the features of MS Project. Microsoft has a standard training of 3 days coving all the features. However many of those features are not used by project manager in a day to day life. In this 2 days workshop, we cover all features that project managers commonly require to manage their projects every day.

Advanced Project Management Training