|
 |
ATI's Program Management: A Return to Fundamentals course
|
|
|
|
|
|
Summary:
This three-course, directed toward the seasoned as well as new Program Manager, provides an opportunity of renewal of Project Management Fundamentals. We are surrounded by books, courses, tools, and processes guaranteed to make projects successful. Yet there are many struggling projects. Project Managers are pressured to use this tool or that new process. Still management and customers remain unhappy with project and manager performance. What's up? Some of us need to get back to basics and refocus on what is important.
It reintroduces a few basic, actionable principles that are independent of tools and processes. These principles should be embedded in every company’s PM culture. It is a one day class that will enlighten and entertain as well as provide opportunities to interact with the instructor and peers.
Instructor:
What You Will Learn:
- Learn what managers need to organize and drive highly complex activities.
- See how project management is not about a specific tool or process but instead, an application of a set of principles.
- Develop a focus on the fundamentals: Understand expectations, Create baselines, Develop plans, Control, Manage risk, and Provide leadership.
- Develop an appreciation of Situation Awareness and an understanding how information, events, concerns, circumstances, and your own actions will impact your goals and objectives.
- Take these ideas home and embed them in your PM culture.
Course Outline:
- Expectations - Do you know what is expected of you and the team? (This is not limited to a cost, scope and schedule)
- Baselines - If you don’t know where you are, how are you going to get to your destination?
- Integrated Plans - “I love it when [all the pieces of] a plan come together!”
- Measure - You can't control what you can't measure.
- Control – Projects don’t run on auto-pilot!
- Risk Management - Real world plans sit on top of assumptions that are somewhere between best case and worst case.
- Leadership - Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible.
Tuition:
For dedicated on-site pricing and availability request information HERE.
|
|
|
Tim Kelly, a project management consultant, provides service and training in successful management and completion of projects. Kelly is the winner of many awards including NASA Public Service Medal “In recognition of visionary program leadership”. As a Project Manager he has led development and operations of complex space systems including NASA contracts as HST/NICMOS, Spitzer, JWST, Kepler (which was in excess of $250M). He led the difficult transition of a high tech lab into a true operational center. He has been a department manager as well as a teacher and mentor. Kelly has multi-level experience including: Thermal Analyst, Senior System Engineer, Senior Program Manager, Functional Manager, Product Center Lead, and the Director of Program Managers for Payloads, Spacecraft, and Missions. His inspiration for “Returning to Fundamentals” originated with his work at a large aerospace company and was later refined as he assisted Venture Capitalists with both startup projects and struggling projects.
