The Making of a Professional Project Manager: Advanced Concepts series are for folks who have already been through the basics (either the webinar series or in real life). You have the mechanics down cold, now it's time to take it to the next level. Available individually or as a package, every webinar is recorded and available to you after the presentation.
We will be scheduling more live webinars in 2016. In the meantime, you can get the whole series' recordings plus a live Q&A session. Check the bottom of the page for details.
Relationships: The People Part of Project Management
What It Is: Identify and manage key relationships
What You Get: By the end of the session, you'll
- Understand why one unhappy person can ruin your beautiful plan
- See the need for establishing and managing relationships within the project team
- Have techniques at hand for establishing and maintaining project relationships
- Understand the basics of learning styles and their application
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Risk: Find it, Manage it, Make it Yours
What It Is: Risk analysis, assessment, and management
What You Get: By the end of the session you'll
- Know where and how to look for risk to your project
- Have a handle on how to report risk
- Understand the need for (and value of) risk mitigation and contingency planning
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Communication: The alternative to micro-management
What It Is: Project communication including stats reporting and effective meetings
What You Get: By the end of the session you'll
- Have formats for different kinds of reporting - to the team, to management, to stakeholders
- Be prepared with strategies for communicating among distributed teams, even across multiple timezones
- Hold effective meetings no matter what the subject
- See the finer points of nagging
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What Just Happened? (Root Cause Analysis)
What It Is: Root cause analysis - the need for it, riggers, timing, and methodologies
What You Get: Know when to perform a RCA and who to involve
- Be able to work through your own RCA using tools and techniques presented
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Making it Better: Retrospectives and Process Improvement
What It Is: There's always room for improvement. How to recognize the opportunities, determine process improvements, and roll them out
What You Get: By the end of the session you'll
- Know the best way (and time) to run a retrospective review (AKA post-mortem)
- Recognize opportunities for both wholesale change and minor process tinkering
- Understand the flip side - knowing what's working
- Have options for documenting and rolling out improvements
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Seeing the Whole System: Systems Analysis Basics
What It Is: Concepts, tools, and uses of systems analysis to understand how multiple systems interact and what effect changing one will have on another
What You Get: By the end of the session you'll
- Understand what systems analysis is all about
- Know how business and process analysis work with systems analysis
- Be able to identify/build a data flow diagram and know why it's useful
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Traditional Project Management Techniques: Waterfall/Spiral
What It Is: Standard, traditional project management techniques have very specific rules. We'll cover the basic Waterfall model and a few Spiral modifications in this webinar. These techniques are in widespread use and are particularly helpful when trying to adhere to a strict set of requirements.
What You Get: By the end of the session you'll
- Be able to identify the steps in a standard Waterfall model
- Know what a Spiral Waterfall model looks like
- Be able to apply both models easily
- Know the rules of the game
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Agile Projects
What It Is: Agile project management techniques grew out of software development but are hugely useful for any kind of project where the requirements are changing and evolving.
What You Get: By the end of the session you'll
- Understand how Agile project management differs from more traditional methodologies
- Know when Agile is a good fit for a project
- Be able to apply the basics of Agile project management
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General Information
Cost: Each webinar is $20 (payable at registration)
Series:: The full series is available for $150. If signing up after the scheduled date of any of the webinars, you'll be provided with the recording of those missed.
