Take control of your projects to get better results! This fast-paced seminar, designed for those seeking to apply and improve their project planning and project controlling knowledge and skills, results in proactive project decisions being derived from established project data. These proactive decisions offer organizations better results and opportunities to meet or exceed project stakeholder expectations, maintain project timing, contain project costs and mitigate project risks while taking advantage of, and benefiting from, lessons learned. You will engage in developing and applying effective planning processes while controlling the Triad of Alternatives (Scope, Time and Cost) to balance Project Risk - in a dynamic, Facilitator led discussions as well as working in small teams with hands-on activities. You will hone your knowledge and skills while increasing your ability to apply effective planning and controlling tools and techniques.

A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK^® Guide) areas covered: Project Integration Management, Project Scope Management, Project Time Management, Project Cost Management, Project Quality Management, Project Human Resources Management, Project Communication Management and Project Risk Management.

Who should attend?
This workshop is intended to create an understanding of the project planning processes that are essential to develop the Integrated Project Plan in order to utilize the project controlling processes to assist Project Managers in contributing to better managed projects.

How you will benefit
Develop and enhance the contributions you make to your organization by being able to:

• Understand the Project Management Body of Knowledge as the basis to develop a common language for implementing and utilizing Project Management tools and techniques
• Understand the Project Management Processes as the required steps to every project in every project phase
• Describe and Define the Integrated Project Plan “Top Ten” Key Planning Elements: Project Charter, Stakeholder Assessment, WBS, Project Schedule, Earned Value Metrics, Project Organizational Chart, Responsibility Assignment Matrix, Project Roles and Responsibility Profile, Communications Plan, and Risk Mitigation Strategy as the prerequisites developed during the Planning Phase.
• Utilize the Integrated Project Plan information as a guide for understanding the priorities and tolerance levels of project stakeholders to suggest corrective action trade-offs to balance scope, time, cost and risk during the Controlling Phase.

Your seminar experience will cover:

• Discuss experiences and perspectives to cite examples of Best Practices and Lessons Learned regarding the nine Project Management Knowledge Areas to develop a common language for implementing and utilizing project management tools and techniques.
• Discuss experiences and perspectives to cite examples of Best Practices and Lessons Learned regarding the Project Management Processes to better understand the required steps to every project and every project phase.
• Review a Project Charter to recognize the components that establish the project boundaries.
• Conduct a Stakeholder Assessment to understand the process necessary to capture and manage project stakeholder requirements and expectations.
• Develop a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) in order to better understand how to define project deliverables to control what is or is not included in the project scope.
• Develop a Project Schedule and calculate the Total Float to create a baseline which will be used to ensure timely completion of the project.  
• Calculate Earned Value Metrics to determine project performance compared against established Project Planned Values and Actual Costs.
• Develop a Project Organizational Chart to understand project reporting relationships and how project decisions will be made.
• Develop a Responsibility Assignment Matrix (RAM) to ensure project deliverables will be accomplished.
• Develop a Project Team Roles and Responsibility Profile to understand the requirements for acquiring project team members with the necessary skills and experiences.
• Develop a Communications Plan that identifies the information necessary to be sent and received by project stakeholders and illustrates what project information is to be distributed, to whom and with what frequency.
• Develop a Risk Mitigation Strategy after identifying project risk events and assessing the probability of occurrence and their impact.
• Review and present a case simulated Project Charter to the Stakeholder Governance Team for approval to proceed to the Project Planning Phase.
• Review and present a case simulated Integrated Project Plan to the Stakeholder Governance Team for approval to proceed to the Project Execution Phase.
• Review, analyze and present case simulated Performance Reports to provide a project status update the Stakeholder Governance Team regarding project progress during the Project Execution and Controlling Phases.
• Develop and present Project Lessons Learned to the Stakeholder Governance Team during the Closing Phase.

Instructional Methods
Include developing the knowledge and skills through a combination of several short lectures, in-class discussions and hands-on team exercises.  Understanding of the knowledge and skills taught are enriched through applying them in a case simulation.  These instructional methods facilitate the transfer of the knowledge and skills associated with developing an Integrated Project Plan to proactively control the Projects’ outcome.