Please see the calendar to see our public schedule of seminars and workshops.

Contact us with your specific training needs and customized on-site training at info@projectize.com  Also contact us for more detailed outlines on the following courses:

Basic Courses | Advance Courses | Online Courses

Basic Courses:

Project Perfect - Project Management Principles

Strategic Project Management - An Executive Overview

Project Risk

Project Estimation

Effective Project Communication

Advance Courses:

Managing Global Sourcing Projects

Building a Next Generation Program/Project Management Office (PMO)

Portfolio Management Workshop

Measurement & Metrics - Building PM Scorecards

Leadership, Power, Influence and Politics

Getting Your Act Together: Applying Best Practices & Lessons Learned

Certificate Program:

We also offer a project management certificate program:

• Managing Information Technology (IT) Projects
• How to Assess & Manage Project Risk
• Simulation of Real-World Project Management
• Estimating & Managing Project Costs
• Project Procurement & Contract Management
• Project Quality Management
• Preparing for PMP Certification
• Managing Information Technology (IT) Projects ll: Managing by Projects, A Portfolio Approach
• Strategic Alignment of the Project Portfolio
• Project Management Using Microsoft Project
• Project Management Using Advanced Project Techniques
• Managing Project Communication
• Principles & Techniques of Project Management
• Effective Project Scheduling & Control

Managing Global Sourcing Projects

What began as a trickle is turning into a torrent. Following the lead of many F500 companies more and more companies are considering global sourcing of IT - procuring IT products and services from anywhere in the world - that is, wherever they can be performed optimally.

While the path to global sourcing relationships is full of promises of reduced costs, conducting work virtually around the clock and shortening implementation windows, there are also a lot of mines to watch and pitfalls to avoid. While there are many success stories, global sourced projects are often complex and rife with friction and frustration. What project management approaches can you use to manage your globally sourced projects? How do you evaluate and select a global partner? How do you manage global sub-contracting relationships? How can you proactively manage global risks? How do you deal with cultural, language, political, people and communications issues? What are the gotcha's to watch for? How do you realistically measure global sourcing value?

Note: This workshop can be customized to the specific country and cultural issues applicable to your environment. Participants get a focused exposure to dealing with specific global challenges they face in their current project environments.

Building a Next Generation Program/Project Management Office (PMO)

While the PMO has been a growing trend in recent years, the reality of the turbulent business environment is posing new challenges for implementing PMOs. The pressure to deliver more with less and reduce overhead has created a need to find innovative approaches. As companies try to build and support project management capabilities by establishing some form of a Project or Program Management Office (PMO), these PMO's are often implemented with mixed results as they encounter limited buy-in. The PMO is often perceived as another layer of bureaucracy that will slow down business and consume resources with limited ROI. While the PMO can offer tremendous benefits and make strategic impact, the challenge is in the focus of the PMO and the way it is implemented.

How can you find innovative ways to build a PMO that can address the challenges and critical success factors to overcome the barriers? What organizational structures, functions, processes, and practices will ensure success? How can you sell and demonstrate PMO value and ROI? This seminar is designed to anticipate as well as answer the questions associated with the creation and implementation of a PMO. Besides the traditional elements of a PMO, this seminar will outline the steps necessary to establish or enhance a next generation PMO.

This seminar will introduce a Next Generation PMO framework that you will be able to apply to your organizational needs. By focusing on the connections between people, processes, tools and measurement, emerging techniques to build a results-oriented project office will be presented. While each organization is unique, this seminar will provide a framework to utilize in assessing your organizational environment and culture and crafting a customized PMO plan.

Portfolio Management Workshop

This is a hands-on workshop in the high-challenge yet high-stakes, high-payoff undertaking of Portfolio Management - ensuring that the organization is investing in the right projects, giving those projects the right resources, and getting them completed at the right time. From creating the right environment for portfolio management to dealing with implementation challenges this workshop provides a framework for project selection, prioritization, oversight and governance. We focusing on business alignment and results and provides a model for weighing the tradeoffs to balance and optimize the project portfolio against opportunities, risks and resources. Our collaborative approach to portfolio management helps in bridging organizational silos and will prepare you to deal with personnel and political issues. In short, this workshop will provide the wherewithal to outline portfolio management objectives, processes, roles, and responsibilities that can be customized and implemented in your organization.

Building Project Management Scorecards

More and more projects and project management are frequently under scrutiny in turbulent times. Project Management is under the gun, not just to deliver on time and within budget, but more importantly to demonstrate value and show project ROI. Typically reactive measurements that track trailing indicators are patched together as a reaction to events. Can these measures predict what direction your project is headed? What kind of indicators on your project dashboard might help you navigate your project through rough times? What are the measures that matter? What should the project scorecard look like to communicate and demonstrate project value? How do you create a project measurement program? This session will present a proactive project management scorecard approach. The focus will be on starting with a set of metrics unique to your project environment. Using examples of measurement techniques, the different approaches will be contrasted. Strategies for selecting relevant metrics and effectively communicating and showing value will be presented.

Getting Your Act Together: Applying Best Practices & Lessons Learned

Do you find your projects repeatedly falling into the same pitfalls? Why is it that most lessons learned from projects are rarely applied on new projects? What are the challenges in capturing and documenting best practices, and sharing and applying project knowledge? Based on experiential learning this unique seminar will use immersive approaches to providing you with innovative techniques to deal with challenges in managing project knowledge.

You will learn the fundamentals of knowledge management and how the marriage of project management with knowledge management can be leveraged for project communication, collaboration and coordination with emerging tools and technologies. Proven case studies will demonstrate setting up project management communities that foster a culture of sharing lessons learned and applying best practices.

Illustrated will be a framework to conduct effective Project Reviews and Lessons Learned that can be adapted to your organizational needs. Strategies to make learning and managing project knowledge an integral part of project metrics will be presented. Practices used by companies around the world will be outlined. This seminar will also provide a unique opportunity to participate in an ongoing lessons learned e-community.

Leadership, Power, Influence and Politics in Project Management

The more power you have, the better you are able to get the job done.
Ignoring the external and internal politics surrounding your project can be hazardous. Successful project managers understand the importance of managing their stakeholders through leadership and influence. Analyze the political context in your organizations and learn how to convert your adversaries into your allies. Uncover ways to manage politics at the project and upper management levels. You'll evaluate, improve, and discover methods for increasing your total power while learning practical guidelines for successfully influencing without formal authority.

If you're in the midst of a challenging project and need to talk with an experienced manager, our Senior Consultants can provide the expert advice you're looking for. Coaching engagements can be structured to answer your questions and help you see how to be most effective.

Knowledge transfer is a critical element in the success of any business technology endeavor. We can assist you with knowledge transfer in many ways, including working side by side with dedicated individuals or mentoring periodically, as the need arises. Mentoring can be accomplished through informal ad-hoc training sessions, brainstorming sessions, or remotely by telephone or e-mail.

Areas of mentoring cover the entire lifecycle: Project launch and initiation, kick-off, planning, communications, scope, risk, roles and responsibilities, organizational issues, evaluation of tools and more.