2020 - 6-Hour Virtual Seminar on Project Management for Non-Project Managers

Overview
This virtual seminar will address those project management critical tasks within each project phase that must be performed flawlessly for effective project execution to occur and will provide the foundation and direction for future study of the subject.
Why you should attend
It is not possible to present a complete treatment of project management in the span of 6-hours. It is however, possible to focus in on those most important aspects of project management that are critical to the success of any project. Without basic tools, it is not possible to effectively manage a project to the pre-determined end-date without turmoil and chaos.
We have distilled the key aspects of project management into three two-hour virtual seminar segments that will logically move participants from the beginning of the project management process to the end - from initiating the project to closing the project.
The seminar is designed to build a working understanding of the subject and for a quick start-up for those unanticipated project management assignments.
Who Will Benefit
Any member of a Cross Functional Project Team that has the Potential Opportunity to Lead that Project
Engineers
Marketing Associates
Product Managers
Program Managers
Contract Managers
Project Managers
Research & Development Associates, Managers, and Directors
Design Engineers
Manufacturing Managers
Agenda
Lecture 1 - Introduction to Project Management - An Overview
What is a project?
What is project management?
The project manager's role
What is effective project management?
The five stages of a project
The triple constraint, collaboration and flexibility
Project management pitfalls
Determine and specify the business need
Identify the project expectations, resources, and budgets - project scope statement/project charter
Determine your project audience, i.e. project stakeholders, initiator, and champion(s)
How to work and interact with your audience
Determine/craft project objectives
What are the project's constraints?
Lecture 2 - Specifying the project work to be done and establish the project's timing and resource requirements
Develop the work breakdown structure
Naming key tasks
Making assumptions
Special project situations
Long-term project planning
Displaying the work breakdown structure
Categorizing project work
What to document
Purpose and function of the network diagram
Reading and interpreting a network diagram
Creating the network diagram
Develop the initial schedule
Determine activity durations
Gaming the schedule
Determine team member skills that are needed
Estimate the human resource requirement
Meeting resource commitments
Resolve resource overloads and conflicts
Handling multiple projects
Developing the budget
Lecture 3 - Risk, the project team, project management and control
Risk factors and risks
Identifying the risk factors
Risk types
Assessing and weighing risk
Determine consequences
Develop a risk mitigation strategy
Develop your risk management plan
Organizational structures for managing projects
Define the key players and their roles
Team member roles and responsibilities
Assigning project tasks
Authority versus responsibility
The RACI Chart
Developing team operational strategies and procedures
Managing team activities
Developing your team
Managing team and individual team member performance
Working cross-culturally
Collaboration and flexibility - how are they executed and managed successfully
Scope creep and how it is managed
Tracking and reporting progress
Work-effort tracking
Managing the budget
Communicating effectively - how to make it work
When things go wrong - scheduling alternatives
Speaker Profile
Charles H. Paul is the President of C. H. Paul Consulting, Inc. – a regulatory, manufacturing, training, and technical documentation consulting firm – celebrating its twentieth year in business in 2017. Charles has been a regulatory and management consultant and an Instructional Technologist for 30 years and has published numerous white papers on various regulatory and training subjects. The firm works with both domestic and international clients designing solutions for complex training and documentation issues.
He has held senior positions in consulting and in corporate training development prior to forming C. H. Paul Consulting, Inc.. He also worked for several years in government contracting managing the development of significant Army-wide training development contracts impacting virtually all of the active Army and changing the training paradigm throughout the military.
He has dedicated his entire professional career explaining the benefits of performance-based training