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PD SEMINAR
2-Day session on
Project Management
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All industries can best cope with the demands of today’s continually
changing environment through management by projects. Project management techniques
have been used successfully in a wide range of fields such as engineering and
construction projects, product development, entertainment events, software development
and organizational change.
OBJECTIVES
The purpose of this course is to introduce an effective project management framework
which can be usefully applied to technical and non-technical projects.
Upon completing this seminar, participants will be able to:
Formulate and communicate project plans effectively; Organize and lead a project
team; Apply techniques of project control; Apply effective project monitoring
and evaluation techniques; and Build and sustain project teams.
FOCUS
Project characteristics?
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Project success and failure.
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Project Management Framework.
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Defining the project: project goals and objectives, problems/opportunities, assumptions and risks, stakeholder management, project Charter.
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Planning the project: WBS project activities, estimating time and costs, sequencing activities, RACI Charts Organizing the project: personnel needs and recruitment, leadership, building, maintaining and motivating the project team.
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Project team building.
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Controlling the project: control time, cost, relationship, changes.
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Closing the project: client acceptance, documentation and lessons learned.
STRUCTURE
Participants will have an opportunity to discuss the use of several tools that
are essential for successful project management. Using case studies, workshops
exercises, participants will apply their knowledge of project management tools
and skills to practical problems.
PRESENTER
George Jergeas, Ph.D., P.Eng.
George has a B.Sc. in Civil Engineering from Baghdad Tech. Univ. and an M.Sc. and Ph.D. from Loughborough Univ. of Tech. in the UK. His major areas of expertise are in project management, claims and disputes, dispute resolution and teambuilding. George gained this experience while working in infrastructure civil engineering and building projects.