Chicago Training and Consultancy - APM
 
 
 
 
  Applied Project Management
 

A Powerful and practical 5 Day Training Experience. Gain the fundamental hands-on skills and knowledge necessary to successfully manage projects. Review ther concepts detailed in the Project Management Institute's Project Management Book of Knowledge (PMBOK) and explore ways to apply them to projects in your own field. This program is of value to anyone involved in projects and their coordination and management, regardless of position, industry, or the type or size of the projects. It is designed to help professionals accelerate their personal and company success. With a focussed curriculum taught by skilled project management practitioners, the program enables students to acquire new skills and apply them immediately to their career. For more information and brochure click here

Course Outcomes

  • Describe the key characteristics of the Project Management Office (PMO)
  • Highlight the benefits of the PMO to an organization
  • Recognize the scope of the PMO - from supporting individual projects to being responsible for all enterprise projects
  • Determine the steps needed to implement a PMO and effectively position it within the organization
  • Define competernce and explain why competency is important to organizations today
  • Perform a competency analysis, develop and use a competency model
  • Identify the five levels of project management maturity and the roles and responsibilities of the PMO at each level
  • Establish metrics for specific level of project management maturity
  • Explain how the PMO is used in conducting a project management maturity assessment
  • Define metrics and explain the usefulness of metrics in project management
  • Develop procedures to quantify project performance and project manager performance
  • Distinguish between traditonal and virtual teams
  • Recognize advantages and disadvantages of virtual teams
  • Assess the success attributes of a project
  • Infer the project management maturity of an organization based on the maturity of its teams

Who Should Attend

This program will benefit managers and professionals from a range of disciplines, sectors, industries, and size of organization, from those already operating as project managers who are seeking to improve and augment their knowledge and skills in this area and operate at a more strategic level, to those from other disciplines who want to gain the knowledge and skills necessary to successfully manage projects.

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Dr. Parviz F. Rad is the Principal of Project Management Excellence and lives in New Jersey. He holds an M.Sc. Degree from Ohio State University and a Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has over 35 years of professional experience during which he has served in governmental, industrial, and academic capacities. He has participated in project management activities and in development and enhancement of quantitative tools in project management in a multitude of disciplines including software development, construction, and pharmaceutical research. He has authored and coauthored over sixty publications in the areas of engineering and project management. Dr. Rad has been recognized as a Professional Civil Engineer, Certified Cost Engineer, and as a Project Management Professional. Dr. Rad is the former Editor of the Project Management Journal.