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Duration: 2 Days                                               Contact hours: 16 hours Course level: Beginner to Intermediate                Price: $1050 Eliminate unwanted surprises and stop fighting fires. Risk management is about identifying potential risks and opportunities, estimating their potential impacts, and planning on how to manage them. Many professionals feel at the mercy of unwanted surprises and constant firefighting. Although uncertainty [...]

Duration: 2 Days                                                   Contact hours: 16 hours Course level: Beginner to Intermediate                    Price: $1050 Learn basic project management concepts and how to deliver projects on time and within budget. Successful project management adds great value to any organization. The ability to plan, execute and control projects facilitates the achievement of departmental and organizational goals. However, [...]

Duration: 2 Days                                            Contact Hours: 16 Course level: Beginner to Intermediate             Price: $1050 Gain control of your project progress to deliver results. How do you know when a project isn’t performing to plan? Earned Value Analysis is a method of measuring true progress of projects by comparing cost and work performed against the project plan. [...]

Earned value is a way to measure true cost performance; i.e. – what we spent versus what we actually accomplished. Although this is an easy concept to grasp, many organizations avoid using earned value due to the perception that it is difficult to implement. These organizations still rely on forms of traditional cost management systems [...]

“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so” – Shakespeare, Hamlet Robert Dilts is a foremost developer, practitioner and trainer of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP). The notion that language represents our mental experiences is fundamental to the science of NLP. In his book, Sleight of Mouth, Mr. Dilts explores the impact of [...]

Project managers are leaders. They are expected to motivate their teams, manage stakeholder expectations, satisfy stakeholder needs, establish and maintain control of their projects, and most importantly exercise sound judgment and make good decisions that result in delivery of successful project outcomes. Leadership in itself can be a nebulous concept, and the characteristics of a [...]

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The predominant metric for most procurement organizations is cost savings. Traditionally, cost savings have been measured primarily on purchase price, usually against some form of standard cost based on historical prices. Over the years, more progressive organizations have come to realize that for many products, cost savings as measured against purchase price history is woefully [...]

So what does it take to be a good project manager? Leadership The first and foremost is a project manager must be a leader. We’ve covered some basic leadership principles in previous posts, but it is so fundamental to the project management role that it bears covering again. When leading a project team (or any [...]

Project definition and distinguishing characteristics The goal of project management is to achieve defined objectives, referred to as outcomes or deliverables. Project outcomes are unique and non-repeatable, and projects are time-constrained endeavors, with a definite beginning and an ending. This chapter will discuss these aspects of projects, and the differences between projects and operations. Limited [...]