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LCSI develops and delivers project management training in both individual and group settings.  All seminars feature exposure to modern project management techniques, providing a "best practices" orientation.

"Improving PM Effectiveness"  - $1,297.00

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Two-Day Seminar - (18.0 PDUs)

Competent project managers can expedite projects to completion, enhance quality, and save their companies money.  This intensive seminar gives participants the opportunity to gain practical skills and useful tools that help them lead and motivate project teams, meet deadlines, cope with various project management constraints, assess risk, implement change, match resources to tasks, work across functional boundaries, document and report project status effectively, and much more.

Who Should Attend
    New project managers who want to avoid failure
    Experienced project managers who want to refine their skills
    Project team members who wish to become better leaders
    Professionals with project management responsibilities
    Team leaders with diverse project staff to influence
    Professional working with multi-functional teams
    Candidates for PMP Certification

Key Topics Addressed within a Framework for Improving Project Management Effectiveness:

    Initiating Projects
        Identifying needs and performing feasibility studies
        Building "SMART" objectives that are Specific, Measurable, Accepted, Realistic, and Time-constrained
        Ascertaining the functional and technical requirements needed for project completion
        Drafting a project charter/engagement letter to delineate the project’s purpose and constraints
        Determining how to recruit team members and manage team dynamics
        Understanding how to succeed with high responsibility, but low direct authority
    Planning Projects
        Defining and planning the scope of the project
        Defining and sequencing project activities
        How to determine activity duration, resources needed, and estimated costs
        Planning for areas such as communications, quality, risk management, and procurement
        Developing an effective project plan
        Developing the work breakdown structure
        Utilizing network diagrams such as PERT, CPM, and GANTT
        Building project budgets and responsibility matrices
    Executing Projects
        Executing the project plan
        Verifying scope and assuring quality
        Developing and managing the project team
        Contract administration, source selection, and information distribution
    Controlling Project
        How to deal with changes in the scope of the project
        The crucial roles of project documentation and cost and schedule variance tracking
        Integrating cost and schedule control systems
        Structure for performance reporting
    Closing Projects
        Validating the project’s success
        Documenting and publicizing results
        Meeting all contractual obligations and closing out contracts
        Transferring lessons learned to future projects
        Closing out the administrative side of the project

Key Benefits

    Learn how to set project goals to meet customer expectations
    Explore ways to motivate project team members and support staff
    Understand how to successfully work across functional boundaries
    Examine tools for coping with time, cost, and performance constraints
    Study concepts and techniques to reduce stress in meeting project deadlines
    Learn how and when to implement change in project scheduling

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AGENDA for Day One

  8:15a -   8:30a          Participant Arrival and Sign-In

  8:30a -   9:45a          Agenda Review, Seminar Expectations, etc.

                                    Introduction via “Fearless Project Management”

                               Project Management Context  & Knowledge Areas

  9:45a - 10:00a        Morning Break

10:00a -  Noon          Processes and Integration Management

                                    Discussion and Analysis of Lessons Learned

 Noon - 12:30p         "Working Lunch" (videos for Scope & Time)

12:30p -  2:15p         Scope and Time Management for PMs

                                    Discussion and Analysis of Lessons Learned

  2:15p -  2:30p         Afternoon Break

  2:30p -  3:45p         Cost and Quality Management for PMs

                                    Discussion and Analysis of Lessons Learned

  3:45p -  4:00p         Afternoon Break

  4:00p -  5:15p         Break-out Session for Knowledge Management

                                    Discussion and Analysis of Lessons Learned

  5:15p -  5:45p         Day One Review and “Homework”

AGENDA for Day Two

  8:15a -   8:30a        Participant Arrival and Sign-In

  8:30a -   9:45a        Agenda Review and Feedback from Day One

                                    Team Exercise based on “Homework”

                                    Discussion and Analysis of Lessons  Learned

  9:45a - 10:00a        Morning Break

10:00a –  Noon         Human Resources and Communications

                                    Discussion and Analysis of Lessons Learned

 Noon - 12:30p         "Working Lunch" (with work as needed)

12:30p -  2:15p         Risk and Procurement Management

                                    Discussion and Analysis of Lessons Learned

  2:15p -  2:30p         Afternoon Break

  2:30p -  3:45p         Professionalism in Project Management

                                                Discussion and Analysis of Lessons Learned

  3:45p -  4:00p         Afternoon Break

  4:00p -  4:45p         Break-out Session for PM Simulation Exercise

                                    Discussion and Analysis of Lessons Learned

  4:45p -  5:30p         Day Two Review and General Q&A

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Program Leader - David Lanners, MBA (Harvard)

As an executive consultant and President of LCS International, David Lanners specializes in helping senior executives and business owners build successful project-driven organizations.  He has refined his skills through more than two decades of delivering executive consulting services and seminars in operations management, new product development, engineering administration, and project management.  Before founding LCSI, he held technical, senior advisory and managerial positions with several major high-tech companies.  He served on the Industry Advisory Council for SMU’s School of Engineering and on the Program Advisory Council for LeTourneau University.

Mr. Lanners received his project management professional certification from the Project Management Institute in 1993 and served three terms as president of the 2,500+ member Dallas Chapter where under his leadership more than 1,000 local members earned their professional certification and the Chapter tripled in size in less than three years.  Mr. Lanners is certified as a value specialist by SAVE International (formerly the Society of American Value Engineers) and as a quality auditor, quality engineer, and quality manager by the American Society for Quality.  He is also certified at the fellow level in production and inventory management and certified in integrated resource management by the American Production and Inventory Control Society.  Mr. Lanners was elected to Beta Gamma Sigma national business honor society and is a member of Mensa and Intertel.  He received an A.E.S. degree from Normandale College, a B.S.B. degree from the University of Minnesota and an M.B.A. degree from Harvard.

Competent project managers can expedite projects to completion, enhance quality, and save their companies money. This intensive seminar gives participants the opportunity to gain practical skills and useful tools that help them lead and motivate project teams, meet deadlines, cope with various project management constraints, assess risk, implement change, link tasks to resources, work across functional boundaries, document and report project status effectively, and much more.  This seminar is designed to provide you with practical skills that improve project processes and outcomes.

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