Instructional Methods
Audio and graphic presentations, discussion questions, group projects,partner exercises, online role-playing exercises, case studies, and online self-tests.
Instructors provide feedback daily via discussion board and written comments on assignments and project plans. Instructors are available for telephone consultation by appointment. This is a highly collaborative course. Although this course is much more flexible than a classroom environment, it is not self-paced. Your classmates will expect you to work with them on assignments and projects. You will need to be able to logon once a day Monday through Thursday at a time of your convenience.
Course Length
All courses last for two weeks except for Project Management Fundamentals: An Intensive Program, which last for five weeks.
Registration Deadline
Registration for any eSeminarsWorld course closes one day before the class begins.
Courses
Building Teams, Commitment and Culture for Virtual Teams
Instructors: Jim O’Donnell
Dates: 24 January - 7 February 2008; 24 April - 8 May 2008; 7 August - 21 August 2008; 23 October - 6 November 2008
Fee: $975.00 (US) for PMI members and $1075.00 (US) for nonmembers
PDUs: 14 Contact Hours: 14
How do you get geographically separated individuals to function as a team? In this course students learn key skills for teambuilding—even if the only interaction you have is on a virtual basis. The tools and techniques for building team identity, culture and trust are different when your team spans the globe. Students will learn how to deal with multiple cultures and create an infrastructure that facilitates that "team feeling."
This course will cover:
• Using the alignment model to understand the nature of trust
• Using the alignment model and the maturity model to select and assess team members
• Techniques for building team identity
• Building the infrastructure for fun
• The definition and domains of culture
• Models for national, organizational and functional culture
• Tools for identifying and resolving cultural conflicts
This course will help you:
• Build trust and commitment in a virtual team
• Have a deeper understanding of virtual culture
• Work effectively cross culturally
• Assess and align team members
• Ensure that team members have fun working on your project
Who should attend?
Managers and team members working with virtual teams. The course will be of particular interest to those working with international or cross-cultural teams.
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Delivering Business Strategies Through Programs
Instructor: Cheryl Allen
Dates: 31 January - 14 February 2008; 27 March - 10 April 2008; 29 May - 12 June 2008; 24 July - 7 August 2008; 25 September - 9 October 2008; 30 October - 13 November 2008
Fee: $975.00 (US) for PMI members and $1075.00 (US) for nonmembers
PDUs: 14 Contact Hours: 14
There is great pressure put on project, program and portfolio managers to align with strategic goals and deliver value. Participants in this course will take an organizational view proceeding through the program life cycle, processes and techniques. Program management is placed in the context of governance, strategy, portfolios and project management offices (PMO). The seminar touches on stakeholder management, program maturity and competencies and covers both the top-down and bottom-up approaches to program management.
This course will cover:
• Program organizational context
• Delivering value and business benefits
• Strategic decision management through programs
• Value and benefits management
• Program management life cycle
• Program manager's leadership and competencies
• Organizational structures, project governance, program maturity
This course will help you:
• Understand the program management organizational context
• Appreciate management and structural influences on the delivery of projects
• Actively manage business value and stakeholders' benefits through programs
• Develop a thorough understanding of the program management life cycle
• Recognize why, when and how to use program management
• Support the development of a program framework and culture
• Deal with complex business situations, using specific tools and techniques
• Identify competencies required from portfolio, PMO and program managers
Who should attend?
This course is not for beginners. It is designed for project managers with five or more years of experience.
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Effective Project Communications and Control for Virtual Teams
Instructors: Cinda Voegtli, Alex Walton and Jim O’Donnell
Dates: 14 February - 28 February 2008; 5 June - 19 June 2008; 25 September - 9 October 2008; 4 December - 18 December 2008
Fee: $975.00 (US) for PMI members and $1075.00 (US) for nonmembers
PDUs: 14 Contact Hours: 14
Most traditional management techniques were developed for co-located work teams. Increasingly, managers are faced with downsizing, mergers, acquisitions, mandated telecommuting and distantly located technical specialists. Although numerous studies indicate the majority of managers have a strong preference for co-located teams, today’s business environment makes the management of geographically distributed work teams a fact of life. The course addresses how project managers can set up an infrastructure that facilitates project communications and control.
This course will cover:
• The four key principles of effective distance communication
• Applying the principles to email, videoconferencing, teleconferencing and discussion software
• Managing by objective
• Developing practical performance metrics
• Optimally partitioning and locating work
• Optimizing the project schedule for a virtual team
This course will help you:
• Communicate more effectively at a distance
• Improve team communication
• Monitor project progress remotely
• Optimally organize a distributed team
• Take advantage of time zone differences
• Influence remote team members
Who should attend?
Project managers and functional managers new to working with virtual teams.
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Essential Skills for Managing Projects
Instructor: Kathleen Donohue
Dates: 6 March - 20 March 2008; 15 May - 29 May 2008; 18 September - 2 October 2008; 4 December - 18 December 2008
Fee: $975.00 (US) for PMI members and $1075.00 (US) for nonmembers
PDUs: 14 Contact Hours: 14
This intensive project management course addresses all the necessary skills for planning and managing projects of all types and sizes. Essential Skills for Managing Projects is an excellent way for experienced project managers to augment their existing skills. Learners practice interactive project management techniques during the exercises on one of three case studies in an online team environment. This course uses tools and techniques from Total Quality Management and Six Sigma, which help to increase team effectiveness and participation in all phases of the project management process.
This course will cover:
• Project objectives
• Project deliverables
• Deadlines, spending limits
• Organizational constraints
• Project scope
• Team composition
• Schedules
• Staffing
• Spending (budget)
• Creating the deliverables
• Monitoring progress
• Managing risk and change
• Customer feedback
• Lessons learned
• Historical reports
This course will help you:
• Understand all elements and consequences of the project charter
• Understanding the elements of a project plan
• Utilize best practices for leading a team through the project execution process
• Effectively close out a project
Who should attend?
Experienced project managers interested in upgrading their skill set to include the ability to manage small, medium or even large multi-disciplined sized projects.
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Human Factors and Team Dynamics for Project Managers
Instructor: Jim O’Donnell
Dates: 10 January - 24 January 2008; 28 February - 13 March 2008; 8 May - 22 May 2008; 30 October - 13 November 2008
Fee: $975.00 (US) for PMI members and $1075.00 (US) for nonmembers
PDUs: 14 Contact Hours: 14
Successful project managers must be well equipped to overcome the challenges posed by the human factors and interpersonal dynamics of the project team. This course will explore the intricacies of working in a team environment. You will learn concepts and techniques that have an immediate impact upon your ability to communicate effectively, create rapport, resolve conflict, lead team members and motivate project stakeholders. The course features techniques for dealing with difficult people and easy-to-use skills to increase the performance of a project team.
This course will cover:
• Communications planning
• Learning about temperament and learning preferences
• Motivation, leadership and special roles in the workplace
• Influence management
• Cultural factors
• Face-to-face meetings
• Conflict resolution
• Business ethics in relation to project teams
This course will help you:
• Utilize temperament and learning preferences to improve interaction with others
• Create better trust and commitment among project team members
• Lead and motivate team members
• Improve your influence management with project stakeholders
• Increase awareness of cultural factors that affect projects
• Augment your meeting skills
• Build a better skill set in handling both resolvable and un-resolvable issues in the workplace
Who should attend?
Project managers at any level who want to improve human interaction skills and project results.
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Managing Multiple Projects
Instructor: Carl Pritchard, PMP
Dates: 24 January - 7 February 2008; 20 March - 3 April 2008; 24 July - 7 August 2008; 9 October - 23 October 2008; 4 December - 18 December 2008
Fee: $975.00 (US) for PMI members and $1075.00 (US) for nonmembers
PDUs: 14 Contact Hours: 14
Managing multiple projects is as much an art as it is a science. Handling multiple projects means more than just dealing with multiple schedules; it involves multiple risks, stakeholders and budgets. To expertly manage multiple projects, you need to recognize priorities and delegate wisely not an easy feat in today’s complex environment. To do that successfully, you need an extensive understanding of how risk, human resources, schedules and costs must be integrated. In this course, you’ll learn techniques for establishing priorities, identifying risks generated by the multi-project environment, sharing resources and managing your energies as a manager effectively.
This course will cover:
• Establishing priorities
• Identifying risks generated by the multi-project environment
• Sharing resources
• Designing templates to help manage your energies effectively as a multi-project manager
• A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide) knowledge areas: human resources, scope, cost, integration, risk, time and communications
This course will help you:
• Recognize and establish project priorities
• Assess schedule and resource conflicts to determine approaches
• Identify and apply optimization practices across projects
• Apply risk management on concurrent multiple projects
• Build organizational authority by applying consistent authorization practices
Who should attend?
Project and program managers seeking to more effectively manage multiple projects. Those seeking key tools within the conventional project management tool kit to optimize their ability to manage more than one effort at a time. Those working toward identifying and creating their own tools, templates and protocols to serve the projects, the project office and the organization. Anyone wrestling with the age-old quandary of “which project comes first?”
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Project Management for the Experienced Professional: People, Processes and Politics
Instructor: Joan Knutson
Dates: 7 February - 21 February 2008; 10 April - 24 April 2008; 14 August - 28 August 2008; 11 September - 25 September 2008; 30 October - 13 November 2008
Fee: $975.00 (US) for PMI members and $1075.00 (US) for nonmembers
PDUs: 14 Contact Hours: 14
This course takes you through the very best practices in topics such as: strategic planning and portfolio management, productivity management, quality management, stakeholder management, risk management, project metrics, and the nuances of how to navigate the political envelope that accompanies every project. Round out your repertoire of project management skills in these important areas with not just information, but interactive exercises that showcase not only the instructor's acumen, but also that of the coterie of experienced learners from around the world who will accompany you through every lesson.
This course will cover:
• Building a project management culture
• Portfolio management
• Productivity management
• Stakeholder management
• Risk management
• Quality management
• Measuring project management
This course will help you:
• Improve your understanding of strategic planning and project portfolio management
• Understand techniques to enhance project team productivity
• Use improved risk management techniques
• Manage diverse project stakeholders
• Understand how to measure project management
Who should attend?
Project managers with five or more years experience will benefit from taking this course. It is not designed for beginners, but experienced professionals who want to move to the next level of expertise.
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Project Management Fundamentals: An Intensive Program
Instructors: Cheryl Allen, Alex Walton and Cinda Voegtli,
Dates: 17 January - 21 February 2008; 13 March - 17 April 2008; 15 May - 19 June 2008; 17 July - 21 August 2008; 4 September - 9 October 2008; 16 October - November 20 2008
Fee: $2,375.00 (US) for PMI members and $2,475.00 (US) for nonmembers
PDUs: 35 Contact Hours: 35
This intensive program provides participants with practical experience applying the fundamentals of project management. At the conclusion of the course, participants will be able to create a project life cycle, a statement of work, a work breakdown structure, a schedule, a budget and a risk management plan. Students work together in groups over a five-week period to develop a project plan for a real project. Students are encouraged to bring current projects to the class.
This program consists of five courses:
• Introduction to Project Management
• Project Planning 1: Defining the Project
• Project Planning 2: Schedules and Budgets
• Estimating and Risk
•Team Dynamics
This program will cover:
• An overview of project management and the role of the project manager
• Team and organizational structures in the project context
• The different types of project life cycles and why they are used
• The documents in a project plan
• How to write a Statement of Work
• How to create a Work Breakdown Structure
• Using different types of task dependencies (finish to start, start to Using lead and lag
• Techniques for accurate estimating including PERT estimating and the method of moments
• Assigning resources and resource leveling
• Creating project schedules and budgets
•Schedule compression techniques
• How to plan and document effective meetings
• The effect of personality and style issues in team dynamics
• A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide) knowledge areas: human resources, scope, cost, integration, risk, time and communications
This program will help you:
• Effectively use a project life cycle
• Write project specifications
• Create a breakdown and estimate project work
• Assign project dependencies to create networks and schedules
• Identify and quantify project risks
• Develop contingency and mitigation plans for project risks
• Develop an integrated project plan
• Use a scheduling program of your choice
• Establish effective team communications
Who should attend?
Individuals new to project management or project managers seeking a more formal approach to project management. Functional managers and team members in a technical leadership role also benefit from an understanding of project management fundamentals.
Note: Program participants must login once a day Monday through Thursday. You may login at any time of the day that is convenient for you. Students should plan to spend approximately 6 hours per week reviewing the online course material and an additional 4 hours per week completing the group assignments. The program offers optional instruction in how to use Microsoft Project or Primavera’s Suretrak®.
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