AMA’s Comprehensive Project Management Workshop Seminar # 6595

In just five days, refresh your PM expertise and chart a journey toward PM certification.

Want to move ahead toward achieving your Project Management Professional (PMP_^®) certification while gaining new PM skills and enhancing existing ones?

In this week-long learning program, you’ll examine a complete arsenal of PM competencies and methods and learn a common and precise language to communicate and define project needs effectively. In addition, you’ll acquire skills to resolve project issues through an alignment with the Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK_^® Guide).This seminar will help you roadmap your PM future—and your ongoing career success.

AMA’s Comprehensive Project Management Workshop is recommended as a prerequisite to seminar #6590, AMA’s PMP Exam Prep Express.

How You Will Benefit

• Learn all aspects of project management from the perspective of the PMBOK Guide
• Acquire necessary prerequisite knowledge to enter a PMP Exam Prep training program
• Achieve competence in the nine project management knowledge areas and five process groups
• Master the 44 competencies outlined in the PMBOK Guide
• Learn the techniques of documenting project risks, assumptions and constraints
• Become skilled at identifying and performing stakeholder analysis
• Learn how to develop a WBS and create a project charter
• Get skills to determine the critical path of a project
• Learn how to staff your project for optimum results
• Become skilled in executing, monitoring and controlling the tasks defined in your project plan
  

What You Will Cover

Day 1:

Examining the Project Management Framework

• Exploring characteristics of projects
  
• Reviewing project management terminology
  
• Considering environmental influences
  

Reviewing the Project Management Body of Knowledge

• Describing the project management process groups
• The project management knowledge areas
• Project management competency standards

Initiating the Project

• Using project selection methods
• Defining project scope
• Documenting project risks, assumptions and constraints
• Identifying and performing stakeholder analysis
• Evaluating the project charter  

Day 2:

Planning the Project

• Defining and recording requirements, constraints and assumptions
• Identifying project team members and defining roles and responsibilities
• Creating the work breakdown structure (WBS)
• Developing the change management plan
• Identifying risks and defining risk strategies
• Obtaining plan approval
• Conducting the kickoff meeting

Day 3:

Executing the Project

• Executing the tasks defined in the project plan
• Ensuring a common understanding and setting expectations
• Implementing a quality management plan
• Executing approved changes, actions and workarounds
• Improving team performance

Day 4:

Monitoring and Controlling the Project

• Measuring project performance
• Verifying and managing changes to the project
• Ensuring that project deliverables conform to quality standards
• Monitoring all project risks

Day 5:

Closing the Project

• Obtaining final acceptance for the project
• Getting financial, legal and administrative closure
• Releasing project resources
• Identifying, documenting and communicating lessons learned
• Creating and distributing a final project report
• Archiving and retaining project records
• Measuring customer satisfaction

Who Should Attend

Project managers, program managers, and project team leaders who have several years of experience initiating, planning and managing projects, and project team members who are interested in enhancing their career by preparing to become a certified PMP.

PMP, PMBOK and the PMI R.E.P. logo are registered trademarks of the Project Management Institute, Inc.

Additional Information

• Extended Seminar Description
• Faculty Info
• Seminar Hours
• Accreditation and Continuing Education Units
• Travel and Accommodations
• Cancellation Policy
• Federal Government Employee Discounts
• On-Site Delivery

Registration Fee

5 days / 3 CEUs / 35 PDUs
Nonmembers $2,895 / AMA Members $2,595 / GSA $2,222

Schedule

We have 6 scheduled sessions located nationwide starting between October 13, 2008 and May 11, 2009.

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• E-mail customerservice@amanet.org
• Fax AMA Text Registration Form
• Mail AMA Text Registration Form