SYNOPSIS

Do you have a team that is not colocated and possibly spread out not only around the US but around the world? Do you suffer some of the challenges of differing cultures, time zones, and languages? As the world gets smaller this becomes more and more the norm yet management is not always clear on how to operate so that it appears like one seamless operation. This course discusses the challenges of working in a global marketplace, and in particular what it's like to manage projects this way. Attention is given to overcoming these special obstacles, dealing with cultural differences, creating a sense of unity, improving communication, all while managing a project where you still need to meet deadlines and budgets.

SYNOPSIS

Microsoft Project is a very powerful scheduling tool. With power, however, comes complexity and you may find yourself spending more time fighting it or attempting to force it to do what is ostensibly an easy task. Fight no more! With this course you will learn all the basics plus some tips and tricks that most people never took the time to learn! Upon completion of this course you will be able to confidently build and track project schedules with precision.

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WHO SHOULD ATTEND

• Project managers
• Schedulers and Planners
• Program managers

WHAT IS COVERED

What’s New in MS Office Project 2007

Working With the MS Project 2007 Interface

Methods for Creating Work Breakdown Structures

Working With Tasks and Resources

• Different task types, fixed-unit, fixed-duration, fixed-work, and milestones
• Task dependencies
• Task Constraints vs. Deadlines
• Resource views and types
• Importing resources from MS Outlook

• Setting up a shared resource pool
• Entering work hours/calendars
• Adding custom fields
• Leveling and managing resource conflicts

Optimizing Your Schedule

• By time
• By cost
• Fast-tracking with leads and lags

Tracking Your Project

• Setting a Baseline
• Entering Actuals
• Using the project status date feature

Filtering, Sorting, Creating Reports

• Re-planning unfinished work
• Creating reports for your team and for senior management

Budgeting

• Cost Resource
• Creating Budget Line Items
• Cost Views
• Tracking Earned Value

Cool Tips and Tricks

• Emailing views
• Linking projects together
• Integrating with Excel
• Saving your Customizations
• Creating a Custom View
• Copying Customized Elements Among Projects

Learn financial concepts and techniques in order to better manage your project costs!

SYNOPSIS

This course is designed specially for Project Managers, General Managers and Functional Managers who wish to broaden their understanding of financial concepts and techniques to successfully manage larger projects. It provides an overall view of the role of finance and activity-based cost accounting to better understand the impact of project financial decisions on operations. Through a combination of presentations, exercises, group workshops and case studies, this course develops the essential principles of General Accounting, Project Performance Measurement, Capital Budgeting, Cost Accounting, Asset Management, and Control Techniques.

HOW YOU'LL BENEFIT

• Understand financial management and accounting concepts.
• Discussions on Accounts Payable , Accounts Receivable, Payroll and Purchasing Schedules
• Understand the flow of schedules to the General Ledger with discussion on General Ledger Design , Balance Sheet and Income Statement.
• Understand discretionary project selection based on financial analysis.
• Understand financial measures of business performance such as Earned Value.
• Budget analysis and structure

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

• Project Managers
• Functional Managers
• General Staff Managers
• Those with financial responsibility on projects

WHAT IS COVERED

Overview of Financial Management

• Defining the Accounting Process
• Reporting the results; the four financial statements.
• The Procurement Management Process
• Cash Flow overview and discussion

Overview of Project Management Tools and Techniques

• The planning cycle with emphasis on the project budget.
• Arriving at the baseline budget.
• Controlling the project.

Budgeting and Controlling

• The capital budgeting process; generate proposals, estimate cash flow, rates of return and net present values.
• Project budgeting and management control; the budgeting process, forecasting, management controls, Cost-based vs. Zero Based Budgeting, contingency.

Principles of Activity-Based Cost Accounting

• Inter relationship of the financial records to order entry, purchasing, sales and over head expenses.
• Generally Accepted Accounting Practices (GAAP).
• Revenue/Expense concepts.
• Asset valuation.
• Accounting transaction analysis the debit –credit process
• General discussion on Inventory Tracking

Financial Statement Analysis

• The project budget will have an in depth analysis and full understanding of the supporting systems that form the data in the budget. Supporting Accounting Schedules will be discussed with emphasis on the accounting systems the support the General Ledger.
  

• • AR, AP, Payroll, Trial Balance.
  • Project Selection Methods, NPV, BCR, Opportunity Cost, IRR, and Lifecycle Costing
  • Project impact on business and success of the rpoject based on the current financial position on the organization. Go/no go decision.
  • Project accounting ethics exercise

Asset Management

• Asset Valuation
  • Straight Line
  • Sum of the Digits

Agile methods are in great demand - here is an opportunity to learn what it's about!

SYNOPSIS

You are familiar with the concepts of traditional project management and may have used the concepts to manage multiple projects. For projects in which the requirements are continuously changing, you may need a more proactive project management approach; Agile!

HOW YOU'LL BENEFIT

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

• describe Agile project management.
• describe the Scrum methodology used to manage a project.
• manage projects using the Scrum methodology.
• understand the critical success factors to implement Agile.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

• This course is intended for Project Managers, Program Managers, or anyone who wants to efficiently manage projects that experience frequent changes in user requirements. It is ideal for those who would like an introduction to Agile methods (esp. Scrum), learn the pros/cons, and understand the steps necessary to manage an Agile project. For those already managing Agile/Scrum projects it may be too high-level.

WHAT IS COVERED

Lesson 1: Getting Started with Agile Project Management

• Overview of Agile
• Describe the Values of Agile
• Describe the Principles of Agile
• Identify Methodologies of Agile

Lesson 2: Using the Scrum Methodology

• Identify Roles and Responsibilities in Scrum
• Implement the Scrum Process

Lesson 3: Managing Projects with the Scrum Methodology

• Estimating a Scrum Project
• Track Scrum Projects
• Communication in Scrum Projects
• Best Practices to Manage Scrum

Lesson 4: Understanding Critical Success Factors to Implement Agile

• List Risks in Agile Projects
• Myths About Agile
• List the Challenges in Agile
• List the Benefits of Agile

Testimonials

"I found the course to be an extremely valuable investment of my time. The course far exceeded my expectations. Materials were very well done, the course was presented professionally, and I found the interaction with other experienced project managers to be exceptionally valuable." - Doug Charlton, DH Charlton Associates

"The course exceeded my expectations. Suzy did a great job." - Joyce H.

"The instructor Suzanne Ahrens has lot of energy and enthusiam to teach this new approach to project management and did a commendable job!." - Naveen M.

"Suzanne did a fantastic job covering the material and including real life examples." - Sherry M.

"Loved the class! Exceeded expections!" - Susan M.