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Project Management Fundamentals and Advanced Topics

Your business success depends on projects that really deliver. Make your project teams more effective by giving them practical training in the hard and soft skills they need for managing projects. Auxilium’s training rapidly improves the cost effectiveness and success of your projects. Instructors are experts in their fields and are experienced trainers. We will customize the courses to fit your needs.
 

Project Management Foundations and Best Practices
 

Successful projects are critical for business success, yet too many projects fail because of poor project management. This course introduces students to the foundations of successful project management, especially in a technology environment. Students will learn key project management concepts, then immediately apply them in a hands-on team simulation.

Length: two days, including simulation
Prerequisites: no previous project management training or experience is required

Instructor: Jeff Oltmann

Practical Projects for Ordinary People

Eighty-six percent of projects are late. Many cost more than twice their original budget before they are finally done. Learn how you can use simple, proven project management techniques to deliver your projects on time, on budget, and with successful outcomes.

Learn:

• Six characteristics of successful projects

• Most common and expensive project mistakes

• Tools and techniques for success in the 4 key steps of every project

• How to synchronize project management responsibilities with ongoing operational demands.

Length: ½ or 1 day versions
Prerequisites: no previous project management training or experience is required
Instructor: Jeff Oltmann

Portfolio Management: Aligning Projects and Strategy
 

“How do I …
… use scarce resources in the best way?
… align projects and initiatives with strategy?
… deliver more value with less investment?”
 

These are burning issues for many management teams today. Organizations as diverse as Intel, Hershey, and the US Government have found that portfolio management is an essential part of the answer. This class shows how it works in theory and in the real world.

Length: 1 day
Prerequisites: for managers who select and manage projects to achieve business objectives
Instructors: Ken Crow, Jeff Oltmann

Managing Multiple Projects
 

Success as a project manager usually leads to responsibility for multiple projects, large and integrated programs, or project portfolios whose overall performance must be maximized. This class goes beyond techniques for managing a single project. It covers both personal and organizational techniques for managing multiple projects, programs of inter-related projects, and portfolios of projects.

Length: one day
Prerequisites: experience, and some previous training in techniques for managing a single project (such as “Project Management Foundations and Best Practices”)
Instructor: Jeff Oltmann

Advanced Project Management
 

This customized course is a managerial view of advanced project management topics at the graduate level. Options include:

• Case studies examining why real projects succeeded or failed

• Advanced management frameworks, such as Theory of Constraints, Lean

• Project Management, and managing projects that use an Agile development methodology

• Managing collections of related projects as a program

• Using platform management to increase design reusability and lower product line costs

• Portfolio management and other techniques to select the right projects

• Financial and resource planning, including developing business cases

• Designing an effective stage-gate system

Length: ½ day to 5 days, depending on content you select.
Prerequisites: experience as a line or project manager
Instructor: Jeff Oltmann
 

Project Planning In-Depth
 

This two-day hands-on workshop focuses deeply on techniques for successfully planning medium to large projects. It includes many templates, worksheets, and real-world tips. Students apply all of the techniques to planning a team project.

Prerequisites: some previous experience working on project teams
Instructors: Gary Hinkle, Jeff Oltmann
 

Techniques for Project Leaders
 

Project management is art mixed with science. This customized course emphasizes the science part. You select from over 30 project management tools that are useful for people who lead or participate in projects. The course includes example templates and worksheets.

Length: ½ day to 2 ½ days, depending on the tools you select. Can be offered as basic and advanced courses.
Prerequisites: depends on the level of the tools you select

Instructors: Gary Hinkle, Jeff Oltmann
 

Managing Projects in Chaotic Environments
 

Increasingly, project and program managers must lead projects where change is constant, such as in product development, IT, and other high-tech environments. This workshop teaches leadership, resourcefulness, tools and methods crucial for leading projects to success in chaotic environments. You will learn tools and techniques needed to manage projects in environments where change is constant ― and have the confidence to apply them.

Length: two days
Prerequisites: previous experience leading projects of medium to high complexity

Instructors: Jose Campos, Jeff Oltmann

Workshop Categories:

► Business Communication

► Innovation

► Leadership

► Management

► Personal Productivity

► Product Development

► Project Management

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