This course is for experienced project managers to examine advanced project and program management techniques, building on the basics to help ensure success even for large and risky projects and programs. This program stresses project management processes as an integral part of organizational culture and what senior management must do to support it and make it successful within an organization.
Project scope management and stakeholder analysis work continues to improve across the project and program management discipline. Learn the newest tools and technologies for handling stakeholders, and building quality into your project.
Learn the newest concepts and techniques for project planning, estimating, and scheduling. Discover how queuing theory, the Theory of Constraints (Critical Chain Project Management), and other advanced concepts can help you develop solid, reliable, efficient, and effective project plans.
Continue your development with advanced program risk and uncertainty analysis. Learn strategies for handling uncertainty, discover the network effects of project risks, and discover advanced methods for identifying and qualifying project and program risks
Improve risk management throughout the project life cycle
Track projects with solid metrics, not with speculation
Handle the difficult vendors in a better way
Improve time and cost estimation for risky and challenging projects
Reduce cost and schedule risks using advanced, proven techniques
Report progress even on complex and risky projects
Improve stakeholder communication and involvement
Understand and master the people skills needed for effective project management
Develop skills to communicate horizontally across functional levels and vertically with senior levels of management
Define project objectives and assignments
Utilize scheduling methods and tools to support project control and analysis
Develop and utilize risk management, contingency planning, and change control
Prioritize objectives and assignments
Project Managers
Members of Project Offices
Project Sponsors
Functional Managers
Senior Management and Individuals Interested in Project Management
Why do we do projects?
What is a project?
What is project management?
Project Delivery Systems
Life-cycle Models
Qualitative techniques
Quantitative techniques - Economic Evaluation
Selecting the right project manager
Project Objectives and Stakeholder assessment - who wants what?
Identification of stakeholders
Stakeholder analysis
Management of stakeholders
Task Characteristics and Duration Assessment
Planning and Scheduling Methods
Critical Path VS Critical Chain Scheduling
Resource Allocation Methods
Time-Cost Trade-off
Lead/Lag Scheduling
Critical Chain scheduling
What do we mean by risk?
Risk VS Uncertainty
Attitudes towards risk
Risk identification, factors, and sources
Risk analysis approaches
Qualification and quantification of probability and impact
Because supervisory levels are the link between the executive and senior management levels, achieving the organization's objectives, increasing productivity and overall performance of the organization, affects the effectiveness and efficiency of supervisors' performance.
And because of the skills of supervisors in any organization in need of continuous development, and to acquire advanced tools and methods that reflect on the deepening of these skills and activate their role in motivating individuals working, and push them to commit to the goals of the organization.
You need this conference to learn about supervisory skills and advanced methods, to be able to play an effective and supervisory role in your organization.
Managing an office has become an increasingly sophisticated and complex job. The increased demand for speed and accuracy, knowledge of new technology, and an increasingly diverse workforce bring challenges and also opportunities for growth. This dynamic and in-depth course explores some of the more advanced skills which can help an office manager to work more confidently, creatively, and effectively.
As a supervisor, the success of your organization rests in your hands. This course provides you with the opportunity to develop highly effective and essential supervisory skills that will strengthen teamwork and organizational success. Also, this course will help you manage everyday operations with greater ease. Furthermore, it will help you leverage both your managerial and people skills to meet your new challenges as the 21st-century supervisor.
This course is designed for participants to introduce to key issues and themes in international development.
Participants will explore and engage in academic debates and discussions around a set of key factors that shape, influence, and constrain the development and prosperity of nations.
The course will explore a number of key themes in international development, including how questions of gender and generation shape the impact of poverty; how processes of globalization, migration, and violent conflict impact development; and how development and the environment are linked.
It also considers what exactly we mean by poverty, and how different ways of understanding poverty feed into different approaches to tackling it.
It will also consider development institutions: what are the key institutions in the architecture of international development? How do they differ, and what are the challenges and opportunities they present? Through this module, participants will gain a solid background in the various factors which shape current approaches to and debates on international development.
By introducing participants to a range of problems in economic development, we will look to analyze how economic theory and models can explain the lack of development in some nations. We will apply such theory to real-world economies to understand the nature of the problems they face and how effective policies can be in tackling the problems.
A five-day course on the practical aspects of piping and pipeline design, integrity, maintenance, and repair. The participants will obtain an in-depth understanding of the ASME B31 code rules and API standards, their technical basis, and practical application to field conditions.
Corporate/Public governance and risk management are critical There is increasing attention being paid to corporate governance and risk management in business schools and among legislators.