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PROJECT MANAGEMENT FUNDAMENTALS

2 day(s) | 1.40 CEUs

REGISTRATION FEE: Member: $795 | Non-member: $1,145

 

Learn the essential skills to master project management in your organization. You will identify the techniques, procedures and systems required to  lead and manage projects successfully.

This course is part of the Industrial Engineering Professional Skills Certificate Program. Learn more about IIE certificate programs and how you can save by paying in advance for all of the courses included in a program. Blue Arrows Button

Class Schedule:

Course IDCourse DatesLocationRegister
1714Jun 20 - 21, 2013Norcross, GARegister
1838May 08 - 09, 2014Norcross, GARegister

Overview:

Industrial engineers and others associated with productivity improvement in service or manufacturing organizations often must become project leaders. This seminar focuses on the skills needed to lead and manage projects successfully in those settings. During this seminar, you will develop a simulated project plan as well as an initial plan for a project at your own facility that you will present for seminar discussion. The seminar presentation will use the definitions and language of ANSI/PMI 99-001-2000, the project management body of knowledge standard.

Topic Highlights:

  • Defining project scope and timelines
  • Ensuring project success through management support
  • Integrating projects into operations
  • Managing project costs
  • Project management process
  • Risk management

What You Will Learn:

  • Determine effective cost controls in project execution.
  • Develop an effective project plan.
  • Recognize and manage the risks involved in project execution.
  • Explain the responsibilities of leading and participating in team development.

Course Content

  • PM defined; phases; life cycle
  • PM organization
  • PM processes: Inputs > Actions > Outputs
  • Project initiation
  • Project planning
  • Project execution
  • Project control
  • Project termination
  • PM plan(s) development; leader and team responsibility
  • Project scope, limitations, high-level toll gates established
  • High-level responsibility matrix established
  • Time management
  • Precedence Diagram Method (PDM) networking
  • Project activities determination
  • Activity sequencing
  • Activity duration estimation
  • Critical path(s) determination
  • Gantt charts (timelines)
  • Cost management
  • Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
  • Activity resource requirements, including personnel
  • Activity cost estimates (direct costs)
  • Project costs not attributable to any activity (indirect)
  • Cost control (budgets)
  • Project quality planning and control
  • Inspection and sampling
  • Revising the high-level responsibility matrix
  • Determining the activity-level responsibility matrices
  • Reporting progress
  • Risk management
  • PERT techniques; pessimistic, most likely, optimistic time estimates
  • Computing averages and variances
  • Determining estimated best and worst case project lengths

Corporate Training

This course is available as a corporate training program and can be customized to meet your company’s needs. For more information, contact IIE Director of Continuing Education and Program Development Larry Aft, P.E., (770) 349-1130.

Class cancellation:  IIE reserves the right to cancel a class up to 15 business days prior to the scheduled start date.