San Francisco Practical Project Management Training

This Fast Start in Project Management training is a highly interactive workshop... (More) designed to give participants a solid foundation in the concepts, tools, and techniques of formal project management. While introductory in nature, this Project Management course is extremely comprehensive, covering the five key process groups and 38 core competencies associated with effective and efficient project management practice. Participants not only acquire technique-based proficiencies, but also explore and practice essential people skills and teamwork. The concepts and methods learned are immediately usable in the workplace, leading to a greater retention of newly acquired skills, measurable project improvements, and the achievement of desired project results.

This Fundamentals of Project Management course teaches students project-management... (More) techniques, from project initiation to project close. Students will identify the features and attributes of a project, the steps and variables of the project management process, the effects of environmental, socioeconomic and organizational structure issues, and the responsibilities of a project manager. Activities in this Fundamentals of Project Management training also cover defining the project scope, writing a project charter, developing a work breakdown structure, identifying time management components, describing schedule development, using mathematical analysis techniques, and assigning resources. Students will also learn how to estimate resource costs, create a capital budget, control the project costs, and compute a project's estimate at completion (EAC) and variance at completion (VAC). In addition, students will learn how to implement quality measures, handle project risks, acquire and motivate team members, and communicate effectively. Course activities cover identifying the characteristics and goals of quality management, creating a quality management plan, conducting an audit, developing a quality control system, designing a risk management plan, following a qualitative risk analysis process, creating a decision tree, and monitoring and controlling project risks.

Making Projects Work is a highly interactive, results-focused training workshop... (More) for project team members, practicing project managers and project leaders who need to achieve consistent project success through people. Participants in this projects training course will acquire advanced interpersonal skills and learn consensus-building techniques that help provide clarity and garner commitment from team members, customers and management. These influential skills are instilled in participants through real-world scenarios, which continually reinforce the skills, techniques and concepts necessary to improve project results immediately upon return to the workplace.

In this Basecamp (new version) training class, you will learn how to effectively... (More) manage your projects online using Basecamp, the leading web-based project collaboration tool.

Software projects present their own unique set of characteristics and concerns,... (More) including development costs, speed of completion, quality and reliability. Mastering best practices for estimation and risk management techniques is critical if one expects to deliver projects on time and within budget. This Estimating and Risk Management training not only helps students become more proficient at estimating the parameters of a project's time, cost and performance, but also demonstrates the most effective methods of identifying and quantifying risks.

The Advanced Project Management training gives seasoned project managers... (More) the knowledge and skills necessary to successfully manage increasingly complex project issues to meet desired goals and objectives. Assuming a mastery of project planning, this Advanced Project Management class extends skills to the remaining project management processes covering areas such as avoiding mistakes when executing and controlling a project, dealing with evolving stakeholder expectations, using trend analysis to measure project performance and improving project outcomes.

In this Basecamp training class, you will learn how to effectively manage... (More) your projects online using Basecamp, the leading web-based project collaboration tool.

This Project Management training class teaches students project-management... (More) techniques, including managing time and costs. Students will identify the features and attributes of a project, the steps and variables of the project management process, the effects of environmental, socioeconomic and organizational structure issues, and the responsibilities of a project manager. Course activities also cover defining the project scope, writing a project charter, developing a work breakdown structure, identifying time management components, describing schedule development, using mathematical analysis techniques, and assigning resources. Students will also learn how to estimate resource costs, create a capital budget, control the project costs, and compute a project's estimate at completion (EAC) and variance at completion (VAC).