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Advanced Project Management

Who should attend: 
Experienced project management, senior level managers and all people working within project environments who want to extend their project management skills and knowledge
Course aims: 
This programme will equip participants with advanced tools and techniques to strategically execute projects, programs, and portfolios.  The programme takes participants beyond the fundamental principles of project management, it focuses on mastering advanced concepts in project management and integrating current best practices and management approaches into the lifecycle of a project.
Course benefits: 
  • Understand and learn the latest tools and techniques used in projects.
  • Apply advanced risk and critical-chain tools and techniques to project plans
  • Incorporate innovation techniques into project approach
  • Be able to achieve project management excellence
  • Deal with complex project management issues, from managing risk and quality to managing portfolios and multiple projects.
  • Learn to better identify and plan resources, evaluate project status, accurately forecast project completion, prioritize, and integrate project management tasks and processes.
  • Develop a strategic, system perspective for understanding projects.
  • Use the program evaluation and review technique and critical path method
  • Appreciate the challenges associated with the management of project cost estimation and budgeting processes
Course outline: 
  • Introduction to advanced project management
  • Project management methodologies
  • Project analysis guidelines
  • Project success, maturity, and excellence: definition
  • Strategic planning for excellence in project management
  • Project portfolio management
  • What is a best practice in project management?
  • Project management best practices road map
  • Integrating six sigma and project management
  • Innovation for project managers
  • Project system development and software application
  • E-project management
  • Advanced critical chain scheduling
  • Managing project budget and finance
  • Supply chain management and marketing
  • Project leadership and integration
  • The human side of project management
  • Negotiation and conflict management
  • Project implementation processes
  • Advanced risk management
  • Termination, evaluation, strategies and procedures for projects closure
  • Action plan