C O R P O R AT E E D U C AT I O N G R O U P 8
Managing Project Resources, Cost, and Quality
What you will learn:
• Describe how resources, cost, procurement, and
quality are planned and managed during successive
phases of the project life cycle.
• Describe how to develop an effective project team.
• Prepare a time-phased cost budget.
• Describe best practices for selecting, managing,
and closing out contracts with external vendors.
MDP977B
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3 Day
Monitoring and Controlling Project
Change and Risk
What you will learn:
• Demonstrate how t o assess individual and overall project
risk and implement appropriate risk response strategies.
• Analyze work performance data using the earned
value management technique.
• Analyze variance to determine if corrective or
preventive action is required and if a change to
cost, scope, or schedule baselines is necessary.
•
Describe what steps are necessary in a change
control procedure to ensure only authorized
changes are made.
MDP978B
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2 Day
Work Package Planning for Team Members
What you will learn:
• Break down work into a logical schedule and calendar.
• Develop and organize project work into detailed
work package plans to achieve project objectives.
• Realistically plan the project work execution while
taking into account the context, stakeholders and
material and financial resources.
• Obtain delivery approval from key stakeholders to
control and document work package performance.
• Track, monitor, and report on work package
performance.
•
Master techniques to successfully handle multiple
work packages.
MDP1053
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1 Day
Set up a High-Performance Project
Management Office (PMO)
What you will learn:
• PMO fundamentals — terminology, concepts,
benefits, and challenges.
•
PMO organization — value, models, authority levels,
metrics, and roles and responsibilities.
• PMO functional services, including PM competency
development, methods development, monitoring
and controlling project performance, multi-project
management, strategic management, and Center
of Excellence (CoE).
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PMO setup, including the PMO charter, performance
and sustainability, and PMO reporting and evaluation.
MDP3009
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1 Day
Risk-Focused Approach to Recovering
and Managing Troubled Projects
What you will learn:
• Develop categories for an assessment methodology
for distressed projects to define the symptoms and
why and how projects get into trouble.
• Conduct an effective program management
phase review through establishing thresholds for
performance
reviews and variance reporting.
• Incorporate lessons learned to prevent future project
from falling into trouble.
MDI199
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3 Day
A Practical Approach to Estimating
and Managing Project Finances
What you will learn:
• Understand how the application of various financial
evaluation models can influence your total project
management approach used in managing margins
and cash flows throughout the project life cycle.
• Build the work breakdown structure at the right
level of detail to support optimum project cost plan-
ning and control.
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Build on past performance as the basis for future
forecast and cost variance analysis.
MDI1029
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1 Day
