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One Pass: Project Management is a curriculum designed to assist project
managers, either full or part time, in recognizing the key elements of
their role in the success of any project effort. It is for individuals who
realize that project management skills are different from traditional
management skills and for those who want to immediately improve their
ability to deliver successful projects. Whether you're a fast technical
start-up or a mid-sized growth organization, you know you need common,
shared processes. If you think you don't have time to stop to develop them
or to catch them up, think again.
Foundations in Project Management
Almost all corporate roles today include some assignments that require
project management skills. When these assignments surface, the
"occasional" project manager needs a simple, sensible approach for building
a team, staying on track and meeting project deadlines. These project
leaders must hit the ground running without taking the time for extensive
classroom training.
This program supports "occasional" project managers by presenting the
"whys" of project management and by emphasizing the key principles,
concepts and common sense techniques that are the basis of more
sophisticated project methodologies and software. These simple techniques
will benefit any project and allow the project manager to take control at
once.
Project Consulting Skills
Project management has always been a business of juggling time,
requirements and resources. But more than just planning and monitoring
tasks and deliverables, project management today also involves the very
difficult task of managing people's roles and expectations.
Today's project managers must manage projects that impact multiple areas,
often with conflicting objectives. They must lead cross-functional teams
composed of individual contributors who report to someone else. Project
managers must not only manage scope, risk, cost, quality and procurement,
but also the very important job of selling new technologies to internal
clients. Today's project manager is truly the person caught in the middle,
matrixed among clients, peers, co-providers and vendors. It is a role that
requires not only skills in project methodology but also a complementary
skill set in leadership, influence and negotiation.
Negotiation Techniques for the Project World
Project managers are constantly faced with situations where they are held
accountable for project deadlines but are given very little authority and
resources to actually deliver the project. Thus today's project manager
must be highly effective at negotiating for the critical resources of
information, people and support, that are so critical to a project's
success. In addition, project managers are faced with the difficult task
of renegotiating project schedules, scope changes and evolving client
expectations. This program teaches the skills and tactics of principled
negotiation, which produces both creative outcomes and strengthens business
alliances.
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