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Project Management

 

Projects are frequently behind schedule or over budget, and customers are frequently disappointed with project outcomes.  Many project managers have trained in project management fundamentals, including planning, budgeting, tracking performance, and risk management.  Project Management is an intense 8-hour program focused on fundamental project management skills.

 

Materials

  • A Handbook for First-Time Managers: Managing Effectively, Berk and Berk, Sterling Publishing Company, 1998.

  • Project Management, a bound set of approximately 100 presentation charts used for the Project Management training program, ManufacturingTraining Seminars, 2007.

Who Should Attend

 

Project managers, project engineers, and members of project teams should attend Project Management.

 

Project Management Syllabus

  • Class 1:  Project Management Overview.  Project management definitions.  Objectives, schedules, and budgets, and how they interact.  The nature of project planning.  Developing requirements.  Customer, company, and external requirements.

  • Class 2:  Project Planning.  Integrating objectives and schedules.  Defining tasks to meet objectives.  The backwards planning method.  The PERT planning method.  Gantt charts.  Advantages and disadvantages of the PERT and Gantt techniques.  Class exercise.

  • Class 3:  Budgeting.  The nature of a budget.  Cost estimation approaches, including historical, manloaded, and task-based budgets.  Developing a milestone-based, time-phased expenditure profile.  Cash flow and cash flow profiles.  Matching budgets and milestones.  Budget tracking tools.  Earned value systems.  Class exercise.

  • Class 4:  Project Teams.  Translating objectives into personnel requirements.  The attributes of a project leader.  Selecting the appropriate talent mix.  Functional integrity.  Personality profiles.  Theories of motivation.  Managing the team.  Project meetings.

  • Class 5:  Deliverables.  Defining success.  Recommended reports and reporting formats.  Typical customer requirements and expectations.  Typical company requirements and expectations.

  • Class 6:  Project Control.  Work authorizations.  Work breakdown structures.  Financial reporting.   Identifying and responding to budget and schedule variance.  The IOC concept.  Typical project management pitfalls.  Hidden cost areas.  Situational leadership.  Preventing project failure.  Escalation.

  • Class 7:  Risk Management and Course Wrap-Up.  Risk definitions.  Risk management approaches.  Program, product, and process risk.  Risk analysis and risk analysis timing.  Yes-No risk analysis.  Audits.  Identifying and solving problems.  The four-step problem solving-process.  Training program summary.  Course critique.
 

The above training can be customized to meet your requirements.

Need a guest speaker for an important luncheon or dinner meeting?  Please contact us.

Any questions?  Please call us at 909 204 9984 or contact us via e-mail.
An unending focus on cost reduction is what makes businesses survive and thrive in good times and bad.  Our newest book, Cost Reduction and Optimization for Manufacturing and Industrial Companies, was published in January 2009 by Scrivener Publishing and Wiley.  This is a hands-on, no baloney, rapid road map approach for any organization interested in identifying and acting on cost reduction opportunities.  The book focuses on design, process, supplier, and overhead areas.   In addition to providing roadmaps in each area, this book identifies the risks (and actions to control risk) for each recommendation. As an added feature, Excel templates for the quantitative assessment techniques included with this book can be downloaded here.  (If you need help with this template, just give us a call at 909 204 9984.)
One of our key training areas (and the one we built the business on) is failure analysis.  We know what it's like when recurring failures add cost to the operation and you have to find the right fix quickly.   We also know what it's like when a failure shuts the operation down or prevents clients from using your product.  

ASM International published our latest work, Systems Failure Analysis, in December 2009, and you can order a copy here.  This is a great book based on actual experience in manufacturing environments, with a focus on finding and fixing root causes of complex systems failures.   Our Failure Analysis and Root Cause Analysis training programs use the approaches and technologies described in Systems Failure Analysis because they work, as many satisfied clients will attest.

Quality Management for the Technology Sector focuses on implementing quality management techniques with proven track records.  This 1-day seminar focuses on quality measurement, root cause corrective action techniques (including FMEA, FTA, and SFA), defining customer expectations (including QFD), using statistical techniques (including SPC and DOE), supplier teaming, and the latest quality standards (including ISO 9001:2000).  The program is based on Quality Management for the Technology Sector (Butterworth-Heinemann, 2002), our hands-on, practical guide to implementing effective quality management tools.

I would highly recommend this book not just to quality assurance professionals, but to professionals in all disciplines. - John W. Gozza, Quality Assurance Manager, Composite Structures LLC

Have a new management assignment, or know someone who recently was promoted into one?  Check out our book that provides guidance for new managers, A Handbook for First Time Managers.

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