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 conduct public sessions of some our major project management
and IT project management courses in Sydney,
Australia, in
collaboration with the
University
of Sydney's Centre for
Continuing Education. These courses
are exactly the same as our in-house versions, but all bookings and
enquiries are handled by the Centre directly.
These public courses include:
Please go to the University's CCE web site (http://www.cce.usyd.edu.au)
to enrol or for more details of course dates and costs. You can find
our courses listed under the categories of Project Management or Strategy
Planning and Organisational Development .
Courses offered by the
University of
Sydney are all
conducted by our principals or by our experienced associates, not by third
parties, and
provide a good opportunity for staff development if only small numbers
are involved.
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 PMs
Course
Name
|
Description
|
No. of
days
|
Download
|
|
Project Management Essentials
|
·
General Principles of Project Management
- suitable for team leaders, project managers and
technical or administration staff required to manage short or medium
length projects.
|
2
|
Brochure
|
|
Project Management - The
Complete Guide
|
·
Ideal for senior project managers or those seeking accreditation with
the professional bodies.
Covers all knowledge areas and processes in the
PMBOK® Guide
|
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
|
|
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
|
|
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
|
|
|
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 any project or investment, linking the project
justification to the expectations of the business users and executives
who will approve it.
(Note. A modified version of this course dealing with IT
projects is also available on request).
|
2
|
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
|
|
