ICTD International Centre for Training and Development
Technical Project Management
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About the course
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
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.
Individuals from non-technical fields who are new to project management, as well as those looking for formal project management training.