Project Management - Advanced

Gain advanced knowledge required around project management skills to plan, manage and control your projects more efficiently.

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  • Duration: 2 days
  • Regular price: $970
  • Preferential price: $830

Course outline

Be able to optimize planning and better track/control your projects

This course qualifies you for 14 PMI® Professional Development Units (PDUs).

PDU Claim Code: 5054WB8AFD

Duration : 2 days

This highly hands-on and interactive training allows you to understand and implement project management, using the Project Management Institute (PMI/PMBOK) approach. Applying gained knowledge to a practical case, participants will work in teams, through the five (5) process groups and the ten (10) knowledge domains, and benefit from trainer coaching.

Audience

Project managers, team leaders, team members: beginner, intermediate or advanced

Prerequisites

Project management (basic) or experience in project management

Objectives

  • Master the tools and techniques of start-up and project planning
  • Master the tools and techniques of project monitoring and control
  • Acquire the common vocabulary

Teaching method

The participants will carry out a series of exercises/workshops and will benefit from personalized coaching from the trainer. Also, the latter will provide necessary explanations through lectures, exchanges and case-based examples.

Contents

  • Definitions
  • Initiating: project charter and logical framework
  • Planning: project breakdown structure (WBS), time and cost estimation techniques, critical path (CPM) and schedule optimization techniques (crashing, fast-tracking, levelling), critical chain (CC)
  • Executing, monitoring and control: monitoring progress with performance indicators and earned value, variance analysis
  • Case study with exercises, workshops, simulations, role plays

Surround yourself with the best

Carl M. Gilbert
Carl M. Gilbert
Expert Leader
Carl M. Gilbert is a coach, mentor and project manager with more than 25 years of experience in project management, mainly in information technology. He has trained more than 25,000 people in project management (in traditional, agile or hybrid mode) all around the world. Carl M. Gilbert is an engineer and also holds a master's degree in project management from with a specialization in international project management. For 25 years, he has specialized in strategic consulting in project management, program management and portfolio management.
Catherine Edgar
Catherine Edgar
Senior Project Director and Project Management Trainer
Catherine Edgar is a senior project director with more than 25 years of IT experience at large firms. Over the course of her career, Catherine has developed management expertise with a focus on the human impact brought about by change. She has excellent problem-solving, training, coaching and interpersonal relation skills. Catherine holds a bachelor’s degree in management information technology, as well as a certification as a project management professional (PMP) from the Project Management Institute (PMI).
Jean Falardeau
Jean Falardeau
Trainer
With a Masters degree in Science and a bachelor in information systems, Jean Falardeau has been in the business for more than 35 years. He works in business architecture and analysis, strategic consulting, change management, enterprise architecture, business process reengineering and AgilityFor nearly 7 years, Jean trained more than 400 people showing them best practices in architecture and business analysis. His work was based on guides such as BABOK and BIZBOK.
Michel Drolet
Michel Drolet
Executive VP and Strategic Management Advisor
Backed by solid experience in industry, Michel is what you would call a high-level strategic consultant.