Project school training courses in Cambridge, MA (public, in-house or online)

Learn essential project management concepts and tools in this practical, hands-on workshop. Topics include: exploring project types and phases, identifying stakeholders and required skills/resources, structuring work, time and cost estimating, scheduling and charting, managing project scope, analyzing risk, controlling schedules and budgets, managing change and conflict, effectively communicating project status, and evaluating performance.

In an increasingly competitive global environment, organizations are constantly looking for methods to reduce the costs of development and production as well as reduce the time to market of the delivery of those products and services. Effective outsourcing has become of the key tools organizations are deploying to meet these critical objectives. Partial or complete outsourcing of the scope of projects is becoming more the norm than the exception. New challenges to today’s project management...

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Successful project managers are highly competent planners, effective managers and strong leaders. Successful project managers need to understand the technical aspects of their projects; know how to use the appropriate tools for planning and controlling projects; and effectively lead teams and organizations. Since project managers typically work across functional lines, they must have the skills to gain support from key executives, influence without authority, manage conflict, and lead individual...

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Effective project schedule management is of critical importance to business and industry today. In this seminar you will learn the fundamentals of project schedule management. You’ll find out how you can establish reasonable estimates through the tracking of task execution and how you can implement successful techniques for schedule acceleration.

This information-packed seminar addresses the key scheduling management tools you need to make your projects come in on time. You’ll l...

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In today’s dynamically changing business environment, the focus for project managers is the planning and forecasting of resource requirements across multiple projects in addition to the management of project deadlines and schedules. Microsoft Office Project 2003 offers its users the capability to dynamically plan, track and communicate project status and variance analysis to all project stakeholders.

This two-day hands-on program builds on the knowledge and skills of WPI’s Funda...

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