LCSI develops and delivers project management training in both individual and group settings. All seminars feature exposure to modern project management techniques, providing a "best practices" orientation.
"Improving PM Effectiveness" - $1,297.00
Two-Day Seminar - (18.0 PDUs)
Competent project managers can expedite projects to completion, enhance quality, and save their companies money. This intensive seminar gives participants the opportunity to gain practical skills and useful tools that help them lead and motivate project teams, meet deadlines, cope with various project management constraints, assess risk, implement change, match resources to tasks, work across functional boundaries, document and report project status effectively, and much more.
Who Should Attend
New project managers who want to avoid failure
Experienced project managers who want to refine their skills
Project team members who wish to become better leaders
Professionals with project management responsibilities
Team leaders with diverse project staff to influence
Professional working with multi-functional teams
Candidates for PMP Certification
Key Topics Addressed within a Framework for Improving Project Management Effectiveness:
Initiating Projects
Identifying needs and performing
feasibility studies
Building "SMART" objectives that are
Specific, Measurable, Accepted, Realistic, and Time-constrained
Ascertaining the functional and
technical requirements needed for project completion
Drafting a project charter/engagement
letter to delineate the project’s purpose and constraints
Determining how to recruit team
members and manage team dynamics
Understanding how to succeed with
high responsibility, but low direct authority
Planning Projects
Defining and planning the scope of
the project
Defining and sequencing project
activities
How to determine activity duration,
resources needed, and estimated costs
Planning for areas such as
communications, quality, risk management, and procurement
Developing an effective project plan
Developing the work breakdown
structure
Utilizing network diagrams such as
PERT, CPM, and GANTT
Building project budgets and
responsibility matrices
Executing Projects
Executing the project plan
Verifying scope and assuring quality
Developing and managing the project
team
Contract administration, source
selection, and information distribution
Controlling Project
How to deal with changes in the scope
of the project
The crucial roles of project
documentation and cost and schedule variance tracking
Integrating cost and schedule control
systems
Structure for performance reporting
Closing Projects
Validating the project’s success
Documenting and publicizing results
Meeting all contractual obligations
and closing out contracts
Transferring lessons learned to
future projects
Closing out the administrative side
of the project
Key Benefits
Learn how to set project goals to meet customer expectations
Explore ways to motivate project team members and support
staff
Understand how to successfully work across functional
boundaries
Examine tools for coping with time, cost, and performance
constraints
Study concepts and techniques to reduce stress in meeting
project deadlines
Learn how and when to implement change in project scheduling
Project Management Context & Knowledge Areas
9:45a - 10:00a Morning Break
10:00a - Noon Processes and Integration Management
Discussion and Analysis of Lessons Learned
Noon - 12:30p "Working Lunch" (videos for Scope & Time)
12:30p - 2:15p Scope and Time Management for PMs
Discussion and Analysis of Lessons Learned
2:15p - 2:30p Afternoon Break
2:30p - 3:45p Cost and Quality Management for PMs
Discussion and Analysis of Lessons Learned
3:45p - 4:00p Afternoon Break
4:00p - 5:15p Break-out Session for Knowledge Management
Discussion and Analysis of Lessons Learned
5:15p - 5:45p Day One Review and “Homework”
AGENDA for Day Two
8:15a - 8:30a Participant Arrival and Sign-In
8:30a - 9:45a Agenda Review and Feedback from Day One
Team Exercise based on “Homework”
Discussion and Analysis of Lessons Learned
9:45a - 10:00a Morning Break
10:00a – Noon Human Resources and Communications
Discussion and Analysis of Lessons Learned
Noon - 12:30p "Working Lunch" (with work as needed)
12:30p - 2:15p Risk and Procurement Management
Discussion and Analysis of Lessons Learned
2:15p - 2:30p Afternoon Break
2:30p - 3:45p Professionalism in Project Management
Discussion and Analysis of Lessons Learned
3:45p - 4:00p Afternoon Break
4:00p - 4:45p Break-out Session for PM Simulation Exercise
Discussion and Analysis of Lessons Learned
4:45p - 5:30p Day Two Review and General Q&A
Program Leader - David Lanners, MBA (Harvard)
As an executive consultant and President of LCS International, David Lanners specializes in helping senior executives and business owners build successful project-driven organizations. He has refined his skills through more than two decades of delivering executive consulting services and seminars in operations management, new product development, engineering administration, and project management. Before founding LCSI, he held technical, senior advisory and managerial positions with several major high-tech companies. He served on the Industry Advisory Council for SMU’s School of Engineering and on the Program Advisory Council for LeTourneau University.
Mr. Lanners received his project management professional certification from the Project Management Institute in 1993 and served three terms as president of the 2,500+ member Dallas Chapter where under his leadership more than 1,000 local members earned their professional certification and the Chapter tripled in size in less than three years. Mr. Lanners is certified as a quality auditor, quality engineer, and quality manager by the American Society for Quality. He is also certified at the fellow level in production and inventory management and certified in integrated resource management by the American Production and Inventory Control Society. Mr. Lanners was elected to Beta Gamma Sigma national business honor society and is a member of Mensa and Intertel. He received an A.E.S. degree from Normandale College, a B.S.B. degree from the University of Minnesota and an M.B.A. degree from Harvard.
Competent project managers can expedite projects to completion, enhance quality, and save their companies money. This intensive seminar gives participants the opportunity to gain practical skills and useful tools that help them lead and motivate project teams, meet deadlines, cope with various project management constraints, assess risk, implement change, link tasks to resources, work across functional boundaries, document and report project status effectively, and much more. This seminar is designed to provide you with practical skills that improve project processes and outcomes.