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Course Overview

Watch basic concepts come to life in this course; learn through a comprehensive synthesis of core project management principles designed to reinforce skills learned throughout the core curriculum. Build on your new competencies and test your skills as you work in teams to complete an extensive week-long realistic project case study. You will propose, plan and execute a full-scale project under typical organisational constraints. Follow your project through the life-cycle, resolving issues of performance, scheduling and control, as you also address questions of leadership and management. Each team member will take a turn as project manager, defining objectives and performing tasks and producing deliverables critical to the project’s success. Participants in this course will receive ESI’s Earned Valued Formula Finder*, which gives you all the information you need to determine cost, schedule, estimate-at-completion and estimate-to-complete values for your projects. You will also receive ‘ESI's Project Management Tools’ CD*.

Reminder: This practice-based course integrates the knowledge, skills and competencies that are gained in the other ESI core project management courses. Having a base in industry standard project management practices is a vital component to your success in this course.

Course Topics

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1. Team Building
2. Project assignment
   1. Initial project assessment
   2. Team ownership
3. Organisational assessment: working with what you have
   1. Staffing
   2. Resources
   3. Management support
4. Options assessment
   1. Pre-emptive troubleshooting
   2. Historical review
5. Preproposal Analysis and Planning
   1. Analysing the market
   2. Assessing risk
   3. Building the team and reviewing roles
   4. Developing a plan to complete the proposal
6. Proposal Kick-off and Preparation
   1. Evaluating the requirement
   2. Evaluating bid contracts
   3. Obtaining the team's commitment
   4. Writing the winning proposal
   5. Delegating to team members
   6. Managing time constraints
7. Post-Award Planning
   1. Project kick-off meeting
   2. Goals
   3. Participants
   4. Principal points
   5. Detailed project planning
8. Negotiation/Agreement
   1. Four steps of pre-negotiation preparation
   2. Negotiation performance
      • Exploratory sessions
      • Joint-gain resolution
   3. Post-negotiation activity
      • Memoranda and documentation
      • Communication
9. Implementation
   1. Measuring performance
   2. Managing risk and uncertainty
   3. Reporting progress and following up
   4. Managing change and achieving project control
   5. Levelling resources
10. Closeout
    1. Team
       • Review
       • Closeout
       • Reassignment
    2. Project
       • Documentation
       • Lessons learned
    3. Organisation
    4. Client
       • Sign-off
       • 'Ownership'
       • Revenue enhancement