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Technical Project Management

A comprehensive seminar for Project Managers and team members Involved in technical projects

This enriched program gives you three days of knowledge and practice in managing projects related to R&D, construction, capacity expansion, instrumentation and control, plant outages and other aspects of technical project management. Reduce task cycle times to achieve the fast-track results required in the technical field. You’ll be exposed to technical project management terminology, codes, conventions and performance standards of public and private sources, such as ISO, ANSI, ASME, IEEE and more.
 

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Learning Objectives

  • Review the essential project management tools to apply in any project
  • Focus on techniques for leading technical project teams
  • Conduct project planning: using the SMART model and beginning with scope management
  • Create a WBS for defining project activities
  • Develop a dynamic project schedule using network diagram and critical path techniques
  • Establish a sound estimating process
  • Apply techniques to manage the components of project planning and establish performance baselines
  • Use technical project planning methodologies
  • Acquire tools and techniques for monitoring and controlling projects
  • Differentiate between administrative closure and contractual closure in projects
     

Course Benefits

  • • Identify potential problems and solve them using troubleshooting techniques
  • • Track projects more effectively to manage resources effectively and achieve deliverables
  • • Cope with tight technical project schedules to meet overall organizational goals
  • • Create status reports to update top management on budgeting, scheduling and manpower trends
  • •  Build a strong project management team

Course Features

  • Structured case study(ies) to apply learning in groups
  • Sample templates and tools you can use in the workplace
  • Hands-on activities to engage participants in demonstrating skills
  • Worksheets and exercises to enhance participation and learning
  • Simulation activities to help transfer learned skills and behaviour to the working world
     

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Who Should Attend

R&D professionals, engineers (across all specialties), scientists and principal investigators, project engineers, facility engineers, plant managers and anyone else who administers technical projects.

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  • "  I like the course binder, as it provides background knowledge and will serve as a reference for the future.  "

  • "  I liked the very interactive and more application approach.  "

  • "  Most importantly, the course gave an overview of the role project management has within an organization. It provided ideas of how to breakdown a project into bite-sized steps.  "

  • "  I liked the focus on practical examples of the lessons taught, as well as opportunities to practice the tools in teams. This allowed us to better understand, and obviously practice what we were learning, on work based examples. Therefore we learned and got some preliminary work done.  "