Courses and workshops

 
Project Managers Network is a Registered Education Provider for the Project Management Institute.  Our Project Management courses offer PMI members Professional Development Units to maintain their professional status.  


Our PM courses are also endorsed by the Australian Institute of Project Management.


Project Managers Network offers a range of in-house training programs covering the full spectrum of Project Management as shown in the tables below.

These courses are all based on local and international standards, and current best practice, together with the hands-on experience of our course leaders.  Each course is highly interactive and uses a case study to allow participants to apply the principles to real life situations. 

We also cater to individuals by offering some of our major project management and IT project management courses publicly in Sydney, Australia, through the University of Sydney's Centre for Continuing Education. 

Refer to their web site (www.cce.usyd.edu.au) and look under the categories of Project Management, IT Management and Key Management Skills for full details of our training schedule, fees and enrolment details.  Courses offered by the University of Sydney will still be conducted by our principals or by our experienced associates, not by third parties.

Our in-house courses are shown in the following tables, grouped according to their target audience – operational personnel or senior managers.

 

 

Stream 1 - Principles of Project Management

Profile of Attendees

Team Members or Leaders, Project Managers, and experienced PM’s

 

Course Name

Description

No. of days

Download

Introduction to Project Management

·         General Principles of Project Management

2

Brochure

Project Management Practitioners Workshop

·         Covers all knowledge areas and processes in the PMBOK

3

Brochure

Project Risk Management

·      Full and detailed coverage of Risk Management process, tools & techniques, and calculating contingency allowances

1

Brochure

Project Quality Management

·         Full and detailed coverage of Quality Management – principles, quality planning and controls, quality assurance and monitoring quality throughout the project

1

Brochure

IT Software Risk Management

·         Full and detailed coverage of Risk Management process, tools & techniques, and calculating contingency allowances

1

Brochure

IT Project Management

·         Based upon the project management course (see above), but with greater emphasis on issues relating to IT and telecommunications, including critical success factors for IT projects, quality and risk factors in IT, user requirements, and life cycles.

·         Covers all knowledge areas and processes in the PMBOK

3

 

Software Life Cycle Management

·         Principles of managing Software Development Projects, including life cycles, estimation processes, issue and risk management, quality management and testing

2

 

IT Acceptance Testing and Implementation

·         Development & Testing Processes, System risk identification & prioritisation, Test strategy & planning, alternative methods of testing, special considerations with RAD and web development.

1

 

Managing Projects with Microsoft Project – an Introduction

(NB – requires computer lab or a laptop for each team in class)

·         Introduction to basic project management and scheduling using Microsoft Project.  Aimed at the first time project manager or line manager, this course concentrates on using MS Project to develop a schedule, assign human and material resources, estimate durations and create and interpret a baseline schedule.

1

 

Managing Projects with Microsoft Project

(NB – requires computer lab or a laptop for each team in class)

·         Introductory to Intermediate hands-on workshop whose focus is on modelling and managing one project well in Microsoft Project using good PM principles, including the development of a schedule, the assignment of resources, estimation, tracking progress and producing reports.

2

Brochure

Applying the PM knowledge areas (with two facilitators)

 

·         This is an intensive PM practice workshop. Attendees are formed into groups that work on realistic case study problems and they present their solutions for discussion and feedback. The Workshop includes some revision of PM principles and also provides training and development in other leadership skills that are important for being effective PM’s.

·         This course is best suited for delivery in-house and assumes prior experience or knowledge of Project Management by participants

6

Brochure

Advanced Project Management topics

A series of workshops on advanced PM topics – course duration depends on number of topics selected

·         How to develop more collaborative approaches on your project among teams, stakeholders, and suppliers in order to enhance your results

·         Critical Chain scheduling - based on Theory of Constraints this new approach to scheduling has been adopted by many companies with positive results in compressing project end dates. It requires some mind set changes on how to schedules are created and monitored, and how management and the team operates. We explain the concepts and students practice on a case exercise

·         Revision of earned value principles with exercises using different approaches to applying it to case study situations to re-enforce the concepts

·         Principles and practice in establishing effective Project Governance with exercises applying it to case situations

·         Presentation on Stakeholder Skills and Group Exercises on Stakeholder - Definition, Identification, Analysis, Planning and Management

2-4

 

 

 

Stream 2 – Principles of Program and Product Management

Profile of Attendees

Executives, Senior Project Managers, Business Unit Managers, Program Managers, Managers responsible for Project Portfolios

 

Course Name

Description

No. of days

Download

Managing Risk in Business Decisions

·         The basic foundations of risk management, establishing a risk management process, planning and identifying risks, performing risk assessment, developing risk responses, implementing risk responses

1

 

Making the Business Case

·         Covers the entire process involved in preparing a business case or feasibility study for an IT project, linking the technical justification to the expectations of the business users and executives who will approve it.

1

Brochure

Decision Making

·         Structuring Decision Problems, probability assessment, risk attitudes and risk management, model building and sensitivity analysis, competitive decision making

1

 

Managing Supplier Relationships

·         Detailed coverage of complete procurement life cycle, from initiation to contract administration, including tendering process, contract development, negotiating and techniques for sharing risk with Suppliers 

1

Brochure

Developing Organisation Capability in Managing Projects

·         Organisation PM maturity components, Program Management, Organisation culture and structure, implementing a new organisation model for managing projects

1

Brochure

Program and Portfolio Management

·         Programs link Projects to Business strategy, Project selection, Program Management tools & techniques, issues in implementing Program management

1

Brochure

Establishing Effective Program and Project Offices

·         Roles & responsibilities of Program/Project Offices, tools and techniques including repository & framework, making changes to organisation culture, on-going development of PM practice, monitoring project portfolio

1

Brochure

Projects Management for  Executives

·         An overview of key PM topics,  but with emphasis on managements role – effective Governance activities an improving organisation PM capability  

1-2

Brochure

Opportunity, Bid/Proposal and Client Management

·         How to assess opportunities and decide if to spend effort on a Bid

·         How to plan for and deliver bids in a tight timeframe, roles and responsibilities in the bid team, commercial issues to be considered, risk analysis, proper costing of bids, and developing solutions that meet client needs

·         How to work with Clients in win-win approach to ensure that Clients are satisfied with services or product delivered by the Supplier

2

Brochure

PM Process design

·         We outline where PM processes fit within the organisation’s overall process structure, why process are important, and how to approach their design and improvement. Then groups attempt the design of several PM processes and share their experiences.

1-2

Brochure

The Art of Negotiations

·         A workshop that teaches the principles of win-win negotiations through both presentations and workshop groups role playing a negotiation based around a case study. Groups play either Client (Buyer) and Supplier roles. 

2

Brochure

 

 

 


All courses are conducted onsite. Contact us to discuss a time and venue.

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Note.  The topics in our Project Management courses have been taken from the book "A guide to the Project Management Body of  Knowledge" published by the Project Management Institute Standards Committee. The content of  this book has also been accepted by the Australian Government as the basis of the Australian National Competency Standards for Project Management. 

All our courses are fully aligned with the Australian NCSPM, as well as the PMBOK™.

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