Technical Project Management

This course covers knowledge and practice in managing technical projects related to R&D, construction, capacity expansion, instrumentation and control, plant outages and more.

## Course Objectives

By the end of this course the participant will able to:

• Identify potential problems and avoid it using troubleshooting techniques.
• Track projects more effectively
• Create status reports that show top management where budgeting scheduling and manpower trends are headed
• Cope with tight schedules

Course Outline

• Benefits of Project Management
• Time, Cost and Scope
• Time-cost-scope tradeoffs and negotiations
• Gathering and documenting requirements
• Differentiating among product, process and project requirements

Project Leadership

• The Functions of Leadership
• Communication, Motivation, and Solving Problems
• Work Supervising

Project Work Plan

• The Project Work: Definition and Documentation
• Project Templates
• Appropriate Levels of Work for Groups
• Skills Needed to Achieve the Work

Network Logic/Dependency Analysis

• Network diagrams
• Key dependency relationships
• Dealing with overlapping tasks
  

Work Estimation

• Duration for Project Tasks
• Labor Content for Project Tasks
• Price Out the WBS
• Estimate Network

Milestone Plan

• The spreadsheet metaphor
• Project plans: asset and resource utilization, cost or budget, milestones
• Project management software examples

Projects Monitoring and Control

• The change control process
• Reporting project status and formats
• Reporting
• Corrective Action

Project Closure: Documenting Lessons Learned

• Close Out a Project
• Final Report for the Project
• "Lessons Learned"—Prevention, Detection, and Recovery

## Course Methodology

A variety of methodologies will be used during the course that includes:

• (30%) Based on Case Studies
• (30%) Techniques
• (30%) Role Play
• (10%) Concepts
• Pre-test and Post-test
• Variety of Learning Methods
• Lectures
• Case Studies and Self Questionaires
• Group Work
• Discussion
• Presentation