Advanced Project Management Workshop

Elevate your project management capabilities with this immersive three-day professional development course designed for both new and experienced project managers. Through interactive workshops and breakout exercises, you’ll explore the full project lifecycle and gain hands-on practice with predictive, agile, and hybrid approaches while learning to build schedules and budgets, assess risks, engage stakeholders, and lead effective teams. The course emphasizes practical application of industry-standard tools and techniques, such as earned value management and change control, so you can immediately apply what you learn to real projects. This engaging program equips you to plan confidently, adapt to challenges, and drive successful project outcomes.

How You Will Benefit

• Understand the core and advanced principles, terms, and approaches of project management
• More effective use of industry-standard project management tools and techniques
• Experience via workshop activities to practice utilizing project management frameworks
• Immediate applicability to ongoing projects

What You Will Learn

• Distinguish between predictive, agile, and hybrid approaches and when to apply each based on project requirements and organizational culture
• Identify various benefit measurement methods to evaluate and prioritize projects
• Employ tools and techniques used to identify and assess project stakeholders
• Apply risk analysis techniques to determine appropriate risk response strategies
• Understand motivation and working styles to better manage and lead the team
• Utilize earned value management to evaluate and report project performance
• Determine methods to effectively manage project changes

Who Should Attend

This course is intended for anyone looking to enhance or reinforce their understanding of project management concepts and techniques, including both new and experienced project managers.

Format

Virtual Classroom: 3 days of web-based eLearning with a live instructor. To help assimilate the tools and techniques learned, there is a mixture of individual and group exercises throughout the course. Students need to be prepared for a high level of participation.

In-House: If you have 10 or more employees seeking training, we will deliver the course at your facility or in a private virtual session.

Duration / Development Units

3 Days | 24 PDUs, 2.4 CEUs

Outline

Workshop Activities with Breakout Group Exercises Integrated Throughout Course Outline

Getting Started

• Project Management Basics
• Influencing Factors
• Project, Program, & Portfolio
• How Organizations Choose the Right Project
• Defining Project Success

Launching Projects

• Identify Project Stakeholders and Expectations
• Project Authorization
• Define Project Scope
• How Organizations Choose the Right Project
• Defining Project Success

Estimating Project Work

• Develop WBS
• Identify Dependencies and Relationships
• Identify Resources

Creating Project Schedule

• Estimate Time
• Develop Project Schedule
• Create Schedule Baseline

Planning Project Costs

• Estimate Project Costs
• Establish Cost Baseline
• Reconcile Funding and Costs

Planning for Risks

• Create Risk Management Plan
• Identify Risks and Triggers
• Analyze Risks
• Develop Risk Response Plan

Planning for Quality and Compliance

• Deliver the Desired Project Results
• Verify Compliance Requirements

Managing the Project Team

• Plan the Project Team
• Assemble the Team
• Develop the Team
• Manage the Team

Managing Project Procurements

• Plan for Project Procurements
• Obtain Responses from Vendors
• Select the Right Vendor
• Manage Vendors and Procurements

Managing Change During Project Execution

• Prepare for Project Execution
• Manage Project Changes
• Monitor the Project Scope

Monitoring and Controlling the Schedule and Cost

• Monitor and Control the Project Schedule
• Optimize the Project Schedule
• Monitor and Control the Project Costs

Monitoring and Controlling Risk and Quality

• Monitor and Control Risks
• Put Quality Plans into Action
• Control Project Quality

Communicating and Reporting

• Communicate During a Project
• Distribute Project Information
• Manage Stakeholder Relationships and Expectations
• Report on Project Performance

Closing the Project

• Deliver the Final Product
• Close Project Procurements
• Close the Project
• Celebrate