TRAINING COURSES

A FEW OF OUR MOST POPULAR COURSE TITLES:

EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP IN PROJECT MANAGEMENT – This two-hour course on what it means to be an excellent project sponsor is designed for senior managers who want to understand best practices and trends in project leadership and sponsorship.

  • • Leadership traits of excellent project sponsors
  • • What it means to sponsor a project
  • • How leaders contribute—and hinder—project success
  • • Trends in project portfolio management and project change management
  • • How to invest effectively in improving overall organizational project management capabilities
  • • What really works—and what does not

    • PROJECT MANAGEMENT REFRESHER FOR MANAGERS – This one-day course offers a review of best practices and current trends in project management.

  • • Pre-project preparations, project selection practices, and project kick-offs
  • • Proven planning and project execution practices
  • • Project close-out and lessons learned
  • • Current trends, including agile project management, ITIL, Sharepoint and others
  • • Project management offices—how they add value and how they can interfere with project success

    • REQUIREMENTS—What They Really Are and Why They Are Important –This two-day course looks at how Business, User and Technical Requirements can be created more effectively.

  • • How to write comprehensive requirements
  • • Prioritizing projects through analysis of requirements
  • • How to organize them into coherent documents that support the entire organization
  • • Why having fully developed requirements is essential prior to finalizing requests for proposals
  • • How vendors can take advantage of poorly written or not-yet-completed requirements

    • OTHER COURSE TITLES INCLUDE:

  • Facilitating a Project to Success – The Project Manager Role
  • Maintaining a Healthy Project
  • Estimation Techniques
  • Designing and Delivering Effective Presentations
  • Writing Effective Requirements for RFPs
  • Writing Effective Requests for Proposals (RPFs)
  • PRINCE2 Overview
  • PRINCE2 – Senior Management Overview
  • Project Portfolio Management
  • Application Portfolio Management
  • Stakeholder Analysis and Management
  • Building an Effective Business Case
  • Monitoring the Business Case to Success
  • The Benfits Realization Journey
  • Dealing with issues
  • Closing off the project
  • Project, Program, Portfolio – “The Difference”
  • Risk and Risk Management
  • Quality and Quality Management
  • SAP – Functional and Technical Courses Available
  • Oracle
  • JAVA
  • J2EE
  • DB2
  • Database Customization and Management
  • Contracts Management
  • Call Center Support and Management