Core Essential
Project
Management
Courses
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Managing Projects
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Project Leadership, Management
and Communications
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Quality for Project Managers
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Scheduling and Cost Control
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Risk Management
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Managing Contracts
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Project Management Applications
Additional Courses
TM
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PMP® Exam Preparation
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PMP® Exam Power Preparation
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Project Planning, Analysis and Control (PPAC)
Managing Projects
Core Curriculum
Participants will learn how to:
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Master fundamental project management skills,
concepts and techniques
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Link project goals and objectives to clear,
compelling stakeholder needs
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Set realistic, measurable objectives and ensure positive results
Estimate project costs and schedules using simple,
proven techniques
Establish a dependable project control and monitoring system
Develop work breakdown structures
PMBOK® Knowledge Areas:
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Project Integration Management
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Project Time Management
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Project Human Resource Management
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Project Scope Management
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Project Cost Management
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Project Procurement Management
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Project Quality Management
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Project Risk Management
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Project Communications Management
Programme Objectives
Participants will get a solid understanding of project management
Participants will learn project management skills through case studies,
methods with this comprehensive introductory course. They will
hands-on exercises and a broad array of practical experiences that
gain practical experience in proven project management techniques
can immediately be applied to your job. This approach yields a
and discover a wealth of valuable, flexible tools that they can use
comprehensive project management experience, including the early
immediately to ensure the success of any project in any type of
stages of defining project requirements, developing work breakdown
organisation.
structures, project change control and closeout.
Managing Projects gives participants the foundation, experience,
As the ESI Project Management Professional Development
techniques and tools to manage each stage of the project life cycle,
Programme’s flagship course, Managing Projects opens the door to
work within organisational and cost constraints, set goals tied directly
more efficient project implementation. The programme’s other courses
to stakeholder needs, get the most from the project management team,
provide opportunities for participants to build on the knowledge
and utilise state-of-the-art project management tools to get the work
they gain during this course to enhance their project management
done on time and within budget.
capabilities.
Covering the entire project life cycle, this course is built around the
As part of the course materials, participants will also receive a copy of
latest insights from the Project Management Institute’s A Guide to the
Project Management Terms: A Working Glossary, third edition,
Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide), which
by J. LeRoy Ward, PMP®
incorporates information critical to project success, are also highlighted.
Course Outline
Introduction to Project Management
Project Planning
Project Implementation
- What are “projects”?
-Scope planning
-Baselines
- Why project management?
-The work breakdown structure
- Developing the project team
-The project life cycle
-Estimating
-Organisations and team structures
-Influences on a project
-Schedule Planning
- Managing change
- Key stakeholders
-Network Diagrams - CPM
- Managing Risk
- Project management process groups
-Speeding up the Schedule
- Performance reporting
- Project manager responsibilities
- Project Management Planning Software
-Reserves
- Cost Planning
-Assessing and monitoring project
performance
Project Initiation
-Understanding the role of senior
management
-Responsibility Matrix
-Resource Loading and Levelling
-Earned value
-Needs Assessment
-Risk Planning
-Sunk costs
- Project selection
• Benefit/cost ratio
• Present value and net present value
- Procurement Planning
Project Closeout
- Communication and quality planning
-Scope verification and customer
acceptance
- Building SMART objectives
•Specific
•Measurable
• Agreed to
•Realistic
•Time-constrained
- Developing Requirements
- Project charters
- Project Requirements Document
-Administrative and contractual closure
-Transferring lessons learned to future
project
Project Leadership, Management & Communications
Core Curriculum
Participants will learn how to:
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Lead project teams through more effective communication
Identify motivational value systems to improve productivity and
cooperation
Recognise the role of business and personal ethics in leadership
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Describe predictable change stages and identify appropriate
leadership strategies for each stage
Utilise a powerful four-stage collaborative negotiation process
Create a Leadership Development Plan to implement when they
return to work
PMBOK® Knowledge Areas:
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Project Cost Management
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Project Risk Management
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Project Time Management
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Project Human Resource Management
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Project Communications Management
Programme Objectives
This interactive course is designed to provide a solid foundation in key
Participants will also gain a clear understanding of why communication
leadership competencies and to afford participants the opportunity for a
is so important – regardless of how a project is organised. And they will
truly transformational leadership experience. Participants will complete a
discover how business and personal ethics can influence their leadership
self-assessment of their leadership skills, then master the basics of these
style and personality, and how their individual leadership style and
leadership competencies: setting direction, aligning people, motivating
personality can influence the course a project will take.
and inspiring, leading teams, communicating, building relationships,
facilitating ethical conduct, negotiating and leading change.
After they assess their skills, they will create and refine a personal
leadership vision and work on strengthening their leadership
competencies as they develop their personal Leadership Development
Plan. They will learn how to empower themselves and other team
members through more effective negotiation based on an understanding
of the differences between competitive and collaborative negotiation
approaches – and they will gain an appreciation of the importance of a
Working with other professionals and an experienced instructor in an
interactive classroom environment, participants will engage in revealing
case studies, lively discussion and practical exercises.
Project managers and business professionals who need to increase
their leadership skills will find Project Leadership, Management, and
Communications to be extremely valuable as they master important skills
to get the most from their most valuable project management resource
– their people!
collaborative “win/win” negotiation process.
Course Outline
Leadership and Management
Building Relationships
Negotiating Conflict
- What is leadership?
- How individual differences affect your
ability to lead
- Major sources of conflict on project teams
-The difference between leadership and
management
-Assess your leadership competencies and
development needs
-Articulate your leadership vision, in light
of the assessment, and consider the best
way(s) to realise it
- Processes for establishing direction,
aligning people, and motivating people to
follow your vision
-Identify different leadership styles: Tasking,
Encouraging, Steering and Entrusting.
Leading Effective Teams
- What is a team?
-The stages of team development: Forming,
Storming, Norming, Performing and
Adjourning
-Leading and maintaining effective,
productive teams
-Evaluate team progress and coach team
members as necessary
-Identify your motivational patterns using the
Strength Deployment Inventory (SDI®)
-The Five modes of handling conflict:
Forcing, Smoothing, Withdrawing,
Compromising and Problem Solving
- How to be more influential by
understanding motivational patterns
-The difference between competitive
negotiation and collaborative negotiation
-Using an understanding of individual
differences to help you manage conflict
more effectively
- Conflict scenarios and strategies for
initiating conflict resolution
Ethics and Leadership
- How to plan and conduct collaborative
negotiation
- Define ethics and the link between ethics
and trust
-The role of ethical behaviour and
leadership
-The difference between personal and
organisational ethics
- Discuss the effect of the triple constraint on
ethics
- Power bases used in typical organisations
Leading Change
- Your role in a changing organisation
- Predictable stages of adjusting to change
-Appropriate leadership strategies for each
stage
- Developing a change management plan
Quality for Project Managers
Core Curriculum
Participants will learn how to:
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Integrate project quality management into the entire project life cycle
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Use five steps to plan effectively for project quality management
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Use five steps to assess and improve your organisation’s current
quality capabilities to ensure that projects will meet specified quality
standards
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Ensure customer satisfaction by monitoring results using project
quality control tools
Apply project quality management tools and techniques to “real
world” project management situations
PMBOK® Knowledge Areas:
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Project Integration Management
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Project Quality Management
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Project Communications Management
Programme Objectives
This course applies quality principles to project management itself, as
Participants will learn about the philosophy and principles of quality
well as to the products and services resulting from projects. It brings
management and learn how to translate these concepts into specific
to the forefront the essentials of project quality management and its
actions that are key to successful project quality efforts. The course
vital link to business success, with a focus on the tools and essentials
presents a five-step model for successfully planning project quality, a
of effective quality management that work for your organisation,
five-step model for effectively assuring project quality and a quality-
regardless of your industry. The course prepares the project manager
control toolkit, all of which the participants can immediately apply to
to be a positive force in using project quality management to help
their work environment. With a strong emphasis on exercises, this
ensure project and business success.
course gives the participant the opportunity to apply quality strategies
Businesses today realise that customer satisfaction and, thus,
competitive success hinge on the effective implementation of quality
concepts, tools and techniques. This includes defining business quality
and skills to real-world scenarios. Participants will practice concepts,
tools and techniques using modularised case studies that require
immediate and direct application of skills learned.
standards, determining performance measurements, and continuously
The strategies of quality management and continuous improvement
improving processes, procedures and products. This course shows the
dovetail with project management concepts to increase your control
participant how to integrate quality management concepts with project
over objectives, work and performance. Master these proven methods
management practices to create a successful quality management
and discover how quality greatly contributes to and enhances
programme to support their business success.
project success.
Course Outline
Managing Project Quality
- What is quality?
- Quality and the triple constraints
- What is project quality management?
• The three processes
• How it fits into the project life cycle
-The evolution of quality
-Systems thinking
-The cost of quality
- Formal quality systems
- Project quality standards
• SMART quality standards
•Benchmarking
- Quality function deployment (QFD)
- QP outputs
Assuring Project Quality
- What is quality assurance (QA)?
- QA inputs and tools and techniques
- Developing QA activities
- What is quality planning (QP)?
-Investigating QA capabilities
• Gap analysis
•Flowchart
• SWOT analysis
- QP inputs and tools and techniques
- Process improvement
-Stakeholders and customers
•Types
• Importance of identification
•Prioritisation
- QA activities and the project quality
management plan
Planning Project Quality
- Project quality requirements
• Identifying requirements
• Sources of requirements
• Common characteristics of quality
requirements
• Prioritising project quality requirements
- Quality audits
- Quality paths vs. critical path
- QA and change control
- QC inputs and tools and techniques
-The voice of the customer and the voice of
the process
- “Good enough” approach
-Taguchi’s loss function
- Quantum innovation vs. Continuous
improvement
- Plan-do-check-act (PDCA) cycle
- Basic quality control toolkit
• Check sheets
•Histograms
• Pareto charts
•Flowcharts
• Cause-and-effect diagrams
• Interrelationship digraphs
• Scatter diagrams
• Run charts
• Control charts
• Design of experiments
- QC activities and the project quality
management plan
- QA outputs
- QC outputs
Controlling Project Quality
Putting Project Quality to Work
- What is quality control (QC)?
- Major questions of QP, QA and QC
Scheduling and Cost Control
Core Curriculum
Participants will learn how to:
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Use the work breakdown structure to develop a network diagram
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Plan for contingencies and anticipate variations
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Calculate schedules using PERT/CPM
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Predict future project performance based on historical data
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Identify, assign, and tabulate resource requirements
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Monitor changes and close out projects on time
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Predict costs and work time using specific levels and estimate types
PMBOK® Knowledge Areas:
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Project Scope Management
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Project Cost Management
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Project Time Management
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Project Risk Management
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Project Procurement Management
Programme Objectives
Participants will develop effective measures for scheduling and
Individual and small-group exercises feature scenarios that help
controlling projects as they put the tools of project management to
hone these skills, and a comprehensive toolkit provides practical field
work. In this course participants will focus on managing the constraints
guidance. The course materials also include comprehensive reference
they face in any project: limits on time, human resources, materials,
materials specific to each unit of the course.
budget and specifications. Participants will discover proven ways to
work within their identified constraints, without letting redefined limits
curtail creativity or innovation.
Participants will discover a number of sophisticated tools and
techniques that they can use to manage time and costs effectively on
every type of project.
From the opening morning, participants will get hands-on experience,
practising their skills in building project requirements and the work
breakdown structure. Participants will learn a sound, logical framework
for scheduling and controlling project activities. And they will master
techniques for estimating, forecasting, budgeting, monitoring,
Participants in this course will receive ESI’s Earned Valued Formula
Finder, which puts the information participants need to determine cost,
schedule, estimate at completion and estimate to complete values for
their projects right at their fingertips.
controlling, analysing and reporting costs and interpreting the meaning
of earned value data.
Course Outline
Essential Background
Scheduling
Evaluation and Forecasting
-Overview of the project management life
cycle
-Network scheduling
- Causes of variances
-The triple constraints
- Validating schedules
-Establishing the “data date” for evaluation
-Arrow diagrams and precedence diagrams
- Controlling costs and schedule late in the
project
- Planning tools
- Project requirements—a review
- Basic scheduling and network calculations
-The work breakdown structure—a review
-Advanced precedence relationships and
the critical path
- Challenges in scheduling and cost control
-Alternative constraints
Resource Allocation and Estimating
-Gantt and milestone charts
-Using estimates for scheduling and cost
control
The Baseline
-The basic rules of estimating
-Understanding types of baselines
-Levels of estimating and estimate types
- Four estimating methodologies
-Identifying controllable costs
- Planning for risk with contingency
- Building the project resource pool
-Time-controlled estimates
-Resource-limited estimates
-Establishing baselines
-Time-phased distribution of costs
- Cumulative cost curves
Managing Change Within the Project
-The process of control
-Identifying sources of change
-Screening change
-Updating the project plan
- Communicating change
- Components of the project audit
- Considerations in establishing a monitoring
system
-Earned value
-Advanced earned-value forecasting tools
The Exit Strategy
-Steps in completing the project
-Scope verification
- Contract closeout
-Administrative closure
Risk Management
Core Curriculum
Participants will learn how to:
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Use a practical, eight-step process to manage project risk
Identify threats and opportunities and weigh their relative value in
their project
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Control multiple risks using concise strategies
Overcome psychological barriers to risk in stakeholders and team
members
Make risk and opportunity integral components of their next project
plan
PMBOK® Knowledge Areas:
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Project Time Management
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Project Risk Management
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Project Cost Management
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Project Procurement Management
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Project Communication Management
Programme Objectives
Project management is opportunity management. It is the ability to
Included in the course is a multi-part case study that takes participants
seize opportunities, minimise threats, and achieve optimum results. Too
from a risk overview at the beginning of a project through the challenges
often, risk management is seen as reactive, or worse, unresponsive.
of ongoing assessment and reassessment of threats and opportunities
Nothing could be further from the truth. In this Risk Management course,
throughout the project. The course materials also include, comprehensive
participants will work through the proactive approach to threat and
reference materials specific to each unit of the course.
opportunity—based on a clear understanding of the powerful nature of
both qualitative and quantitative approaches to risk management.
Risk Management examines threat and opportunity from both a topdown and bottom-up perspective using ESI’s proven eight-step risk
management process. Using effective tools, including ESI’s highly
regarded risk assessment model, participants will learn how to evaluate
Participants will end the course with new practices to apply in their
environment and new insights on the implications and advantages of
applying risk management well.
Reminder: Participants taking this course should not take the IT Risk
Management course
and respond to risk at the project and task levels.
Course Outline
Introduction to Risk
Analysis Fundamentals
Risk Response Planning
- Definition and characteristics of “risk”
- Probability and impact
-Elements and factors of risk
• Event (future occurrence)
• Probability (uncertainty)
• Impact (amount at stake)
- Presenting risk
•Narrative
•Qualitative
•Quantitative
-Risk response strategies for opportunities
and threats
-Types of risk
- Probability analysis
- Components of risk management
•Identification
•Quantification
• Response development
• Response control
Analysing and Prioritising Risk
- Determining risk tolerances
-Analysing risks
-Risk acceptance
-Risk avoidance
-Risk mitigation
• Probability minimisation
• Impact minimisation
-Transference
-Establishing reserves
-Impact Analysis
Risk Management Planning and
Identifying Risk
Execution, Evaluation and Update
-Risk-based financial tools and techniques
-Risk Response monitoring and control
-Risk management planning
-Expected-value analysis
-Execute risk strategies
- Decision trees
- Contingency plans and workarounds
- Prioritising risks
-Risk evaluation
-Risk identification
-Idea generation tools and techniques
-Reassessing risk
-Risk documentation
Managing Contracts
Core Curriculum
Participants will learn how to:
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Identify contract components and understand the process from start
to finish
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Agree on objectives, requirements, plans and specifications
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Negotiate favourable terms and make revisions to the contract
Apply rules of contract interpretation in project disputes
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Select the right contract type for your project
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Decipher contract legalese
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Choose the offer that will result in the best value for the buyer
Administer contracts appropriately, and know when and how to
terminate before or upon completion
Programme Objectives
Project managers, contract managers and other professionals involved
in the world of contracts must be able to work effectively together
and with customers, contractors and subcontractors to accomplish
key organisational objectives. Because contracts are developed in an
increasingly complex environment, including the rising use of contracted
supplies and services throughout government and industry, a solid
understanding of the contracting process is critical and can give you an
advantage whether you are on the buyer’s or seller’s side.
Get an overview of all phases of contracting, from requirements
development to closeout. See how incentive can be used to improve
contract results.
This course explores these vital issues from the manager’s perspective,
highlighting key roles and responsibilities to give you greater influence
over how work is performed. You’ll also discuss actions that can be taken
to help ensure that contractors or subcontractors perform as required
under the contract.
Lectures are combined with case studies, exercise and negotiation
role-playing to maximise the learning experience. Plus, you’ll receive a
comprehensive course materials package, including reference materials
specific to each unit of the course.
Effective contract negotiation and administration can ensure project success,
speed performance, and reduce risks and costs along the way. Discover the
keys to contracting from your perspective in this practical course.
Course Outline
The Contract Management Process
- Contract definitions, structure and uses
- Protecting Intellectual Property (IP) in
contracts
-Essential contract elements
• Offer, acceptance and counter offer
• Competent parties
• Consideration
• Legality of purpose
-- Contracting Life Cycle
-- Contract management’s five “Ps”
• People
-- Types of authority
-- Who is in charge? (Sources of conflict)
• Process
-- Buyer and seller perspectives
-- Buyer and seller steps
• Performance
• Price
• Payment
- Concepts and terminology in contract law
- Concepts of agency
- Contract privity
- Contract terms and conditions (Ts & Cs)
- Breach, waivers and forbearance
- Force Majeure
-Legal Systems and Their Influences
- Contract interpretation Guidelines
Procurement Methods and Contract
Types
- Competitive and noncompetitive
contracting methods
-Simplified methods
- Formal competitive bidding methods
• Sealed bidding
• Two-step sealed bidding
- Competitive proposals: key steps in source
selection
-Reverse auction
- Formal noncompetitive bidding method
-Uncertainty and risk in contracting
-Range of contract types and distribution
of risk
- Business objectives in selecting contract
type
- Categories and types of contracts
• Firm-fixed price
• Contract incentives
• Fixed-price incentive fee
• Cost-plus-incentive fee
• Cost-plus-award fee (CPAF)
• The award fee plan
• Cost-plus-fixed fee
• Time-and-materials (T&M)
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Factors in selecting contract types
The Pre-Award Phase
- Buyer’s steps (with Inputs, tools and
techniques, and outputs)
• Plan procurements
-Seller’s steps (with ESI’s inputs, tools and
techniques, and outputs)
• Pre-sales activity
• Bid/no-bid decision making
• Bid or proposal preparation
The Award Phase
- Buyer’s step—Conduct procurements
• Inputs, tools and techniques and outputs
• Source selection process
• Evaluation criteria (technical,
management, price, and past
performance)
• Evaluation standards (absolute, minimum,
and relative)
• Evaluation procedures
- Buyer and seller’s step—contract
negotiation and formation
• Keys to successful negotiations
• Impact on long-term relationships
• Negotiation approaches
• Negotiation objectives
• Best practices in contract negotiation
• Preparation: the key to success
• Tools for negotiation preparation
• Tactics and counter-tactics
• Document agreement or walk away
• Post-negotiation activities
The Post-Award Phase
- Buyer and seller’s step—Administer
procurements
• Inputs, tools and techniques and outputs
• Key contract administration policies
-- Compliance with terms and conditions
-- Effective internal and external
communication and control
-- Main administration tasks for buyers
and sellers
- Buyer and seller’s step—Close
procurements/closeout
• Inputs, tools and techniques and outputs
• Types of terminations
• Documenting and sharing lessons
learned
Project Management Applications
Core Curriculum
Participants will learn how to:
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Select the level of staffing, resources, and management support
required for a project
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Assemble a project team and gain commitment on project objectives
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Assign tasks based on work breakdown structure
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Estimate time and costs and present a project plan to team
members and stakeholders
Create a project binder documenting each stage of the project
and lessons learned
PMBOK® Knowledge Areas:
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Project Integration Management
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Project Time Management
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Project Human Resource Management
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Project Scope Management
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Project Cost Management
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Project Procurement Management
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Project Quality Management
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Project Risk Management
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Project Communications Management
Programme Objectives
Watch basic concepts come to life in this course, a comprehensive
Participants will confirm mastery of the core principles of project
synthesis of core project management principles designed to reinforce
management in this experiential course and will gain the hands-on
skills learned throughout the core curriculum. Participants can build on
confidence to practice new skills in their organisation.
their new competencies and test their skills as they work in teams to
complete an extensive, realistic, week long project case study.
Participants in this course will receive ESI's earned value formula finder,
which puts the information participants need to determine cost, schedule,
Participants will propose, plan, and execute a full-scale project under
estimate and completion and estimate to complete values for your
typical organisational constraints. They will follow their project through
projects right at your fingertips.
the life cycle, resolving issues of performance, scheduling, and control
as they address questions of leadership and management. Each team
member will take a turn as project manager, defining objectives and
performing tasks and producing deliverables critical to the project’s
success.
Reminder: This practice-based course integrates the knowledge, skills
and competencies that are gained in other ESI core project management
courses. Having a foundation in industry standard project management
practices is a vital component to the participants success in this course.
Typically, this can be achieved by completing at least four ESI project
Course participants will receive a complimentary copy of ESI’s Project
Management Tools CD for use following the classroom experience.
management courses.
Recommendation: We recommend bringing a laptop computer for use
in class.
Course Outline
Team Building
Proposal Kick-off and -Preparation
Implementation
- Project assignment
• Initial project assessment
• Team ownership
-Evaluating the requirement
- Measuring performance
-Evaluating bid contracts
- Managing risk and uncertainty
-Obtaining the team’s commitment
-Reporting progress and following up
- Writing the winning proposal
- Managing change and achieving project
control
-Organisational assessment:
working with what you have
•Staffing
•Resources
• Management support
-Options assessment
• Pre-emptive troubleshooting
• Historical review
Preproposal Analysis and Planning
-Analysing the market
-Assessing risk
- Building the team and reviewing roles
- Developing a plan to complete the
proposal
- Delegating to team members
- Managing time constraints
-Levelling resources
Postaward Planning
Closeout
- Project kick-off meeting
•Goals
•Participants
• Principal points
-Team
•Review
•Closeout
•Reassignment
Negotiation/Agreement
-Project
•Documentation
• Lessons learned
- Four steps of prenegotiation preparation
-Organisation
-Negotiation performance
• Exploratory sessions
• Joint-gain resolution
-Client
•Sign-off
•“Ownership”
• Revenue enhancement
- Detailed project planning
- Postnegotiation activity
• Memoranda and documentation
•Communication
PMP® Exam Preparation
Core Curriculum
Participants will learn how to:
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Reduce your study time in half by focusing only on relevant exam
topics
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Test taking strategies to help answer any questions correctly
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Turn double negatives into simple statements easily
PMBOK® Knowledge Areas:
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Project Procurement Management
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Project Cost Management
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Project Scope Management
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Project Human Resources Management
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Project Time Management
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Project Integration Management
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Project Risk Management
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Project Quality Management
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Project Communications Management
Programme Objectives
Beyond academic credentials, certification by the Project Management
They will become familiar with the make-up and format of the exam
Institute (PMI®) as a project management professional (PMP®) shows
itself, thanks to ESI’s exclusive PMP® Exam: Practice Test and Study
the world that you’ve mastered essential project management skills
Guide, featuring hundreds of multiple-choice questions and fully
and knowledge. To earn PMP® credential from the PMI®, participants
referenced answers. Plus, they will get the chance to explore the
must demonstrate the required “long-term commitment” to project
rationale behind each answer with their instructor, a certified PMP®.
management professionalism and pass a rigorous, 200-question exam
covering the five project management processes and nine knowledge
areas in PMI’s project management body of knowledge (PMBOK®)
Improve the chances of passing the gruelling PMP® certification exam
on the first try with this well proven and successful course. Participants
will find out exactly what components of your project management
In addition to ESI’s PMP® Exam: Practice Test and Study Guide, they will
take home an extensive collection of exam-preparation study materials,
including PMI’s A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge
(PMBOK® Guide) and ESI’s popular and unique PMP® Challenge! - 600
questions on spiral-bound, fully tabbed flashcards.
background will be tested so you know where to focus your attention
Participants will learn from the project management experts at ESI how
during the vital weeks of preparation.
to make the most of their limited study time.
Course Outline
Project Management Process Groups
Project Cost Management
Project Risk Management
-Initiating processes
-Estimate cost
- Plan risk management
- Planning processes
- Determine budget
-Identify risk
- Controlling processes
- Control costs
- Perform qualitative analysis
-Executing processes
- Closing processes
Project Quality Management
- Plan quality
- Perform quantitative analysis
- Plan risk responses
- Monitor and control risk
Project Integration Management
- Perform quality assurance
- Develop project charter
- Perform quality control
Project Procurement Management
- Develop project management plan
-Other key quality topics
- Plan procurements
- Direct and manage project execution
- Monitor and control project work
- Perform integrated change control
- Close project or phase
-Other project management concepts
Project Scope Management
- Collect requirements
- Define scope
- Create WBS
- Verify scope
- Control scope
Project Time Management
- Define activities
-Sequence activities
-Estimate activity resources
-Schedule development
- Control schedule
Project Human Resources Management
- Develop human resource plan
-Acquire project team
- Conduct procurements
-Administer procurements
- Close procurements
- Develop project team
Professional Responsibility
- Manage project team
-Ensuring individual integrity and
professionalism
Project Communications Management
-Identify stakeholders
- Contributing to the project management
knowledge base
- Plan communications
-Enhancing individual competence
- Distribute information
- Balancing stakeholders’ interests
- Manage stakeholder expectations
-Interacting in a professional and
cooperative manner
-Report performance
-Other communications management
issues
Studying for Taking the Exam
PMP® Exam Power Preparation
Core Curriculum
Participants will learn how to:
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Receive an in-depth topic review and structured study
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Ensure exam success with five power-packed days of preparation
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For participants who have met the requirements on PMI’s Credential
Application
PMBOK® Knowledge Areas:
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Project Procurement Management
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Project Cost Management
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Project Scope Management
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Project Human Resources Management
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Project Time Management
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Project Integration Management
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Project Risk Management
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Project Quality Management
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Project Communications Management
Programme Objectives
Participants who immerse themselves in ESI’s PMP® Power Prep will
students. This course has historically proven to be effective for most
be well on their way to passing PMI’s PMP® certification exam. This
people. Take PMI’s PMP® certification exam within 30 days after course
course is for you if you’ve met PMI’s requirements put forth in the PMP®
completion and we’ll stand behind your success – should you fail to pass
Credential Application. This intensive, five-day course integrates in-depth
the exam on your first try, we’ll give you free access to the online version
topic reviews with structured personal study time, including individual
of our popular and effective PMP® Exam Preparation course to support
assistance from the
PMP®-certified
instructor. Participants will thoroughly
your additional focused preparation. (You must enrol within 30 days after
review exam “trouble spots”, using highly effective drills to accelerate
having taken the PMP® certification exam; you will be given standard
their learning, receive invaluable test taking tips, and take and review
course access).
practice exams.
Let ESI take the stress out of studying for the PMP® certification exam.
Participants will receive a comprehensive workbook, including drills and
Invest five days towards exam success – the final step in obtaining your
practice exams, as well as PMI’s A Guide to the Project Management
PMP® credential.
Body of Knowledge
(PMBOK®
Guide). And, for on-the-go reinforcement,
participants will be given the Portable PMP® Prep: Conversations on
Passing the PMP® Exam CD set.
Reminder: PMI’s PMP® Credential Application requires documentation of
35 contract hours of project management education/training at the time
of application. PDUs for Continuing Certification Requirements must be
As PMI evolves the PMP® credential to reflect the changing profession,
taken after the PMP® credential has been attained. (Refer to PMI’s PMP®
ESI remains committed to the success of our PMP® Power Prep
Credential Handbook for complete and current requirements.)
Course Outline
Project Management Process Groups
Project Time Management
Project Procurement Management
-Initiating processes
-Activity definition
- Plan purchases and acquisitions
- Planning processes
-Activity sequencing
- Plan contracting
- Controlling processes
-Activity resource estimating
-Request seller responses
-Executing processes
-Activity duration estimating
-Select sellers
- Closing processes
-Schedule development
- Contract administration
-Schedule control
- Contract closure
- Develop project charter
Project Cost Management
Project Communications Management
- Develop preliminary project scope
statement
- Cost estimating
- Communications planning
- Develop project management plan
- Cost budgeting
-Information distribution
- Cost control
- Performance reporting
-Earned value
- Manage stakeholders
Project Risk Management
Professional Responsibility
-Planning
-Ensuring individual integrity and
professionalism
Project Integration Management
- Direct and manage project execution
- Monitor and control project work
-Integrated change control
- Close project
Project Scope Management
-Scope planning
-Scope definition
- Create WBS
-Scope verification
-Scope control
Project Quality Management
- Quality planning
- Perform quality assurance (QA)
- Perform quality control (QC)
-Identification
- Qualitative analysis
- Quantitative analysis
-Response planning
-Risk monitoring and control
Project Human Resource Management
- Human resource planning
-Acquire project team
- Develop project team
- Manage project team
- Contributing to the project management
knowledge base
-Enhancing individual competence
- Balancing stakeholders’ interests
-Interacting in a professional cooperative
manner
Project Planning, Analysis and Control
Core Curriculum
Participants will learn how to:
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Define a project, its objectives and measurement criteria for success
Develop a course of action to improve their project management
competencies
Estimate project schedules, costs and resources using a variety of
proven methods
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Develop a network diagram and calculate the project schedule using
PERT/CPM
Apply risk management techniques to identify, analyse, prioritise and
develop risk response strategies
Close out a project in a systematic, comprehensive manner
Build a work breakdown structure of project tasks
PMBOK® Knowledge Areas:
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Project Time Management
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Project Risk Management
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Project Cost Management
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Project Scope Management
Programme Objectives
This course gives intensive instruction in project management
They will also learn qualitative and quantitative techniques for identifying,
fundamentals across the entire project life cycle. It provides proven
analysing, and mitigating risk, as well as the best ways and times to
strategies and practical tools for planning, executing, and controlling a
apply these techniques to the project environment. Individual and small-
variety of projects. And it offers detailed and sophisticated instruction
group learning exercises will help to develop these skills. Participants will
in the critical areas of scheduling key events, controlling costs, and
master key theories, concepts, and practices— then put this knowledge
managing risks.
to work in the classroom through a comprehensive case study and other
Participants will improve their ability to define the scope of a product
practical learning activities.
development project and manage within that definition. They will learn
how best to identify and sequence tasks, estimate durations of tasks,
schedule events and activities, plan for delays, control variances,
manage costs, and utilise resources.
Course Outline
Understanding the Process of
Managing Projects
Managing Risk
Scheduling
-Risk, uncertainty, and opportunity
-Types of schedules
- What are projects?
-Risk assessment
-Using the PERT/CPM method
- Why project management?
-Risk assessment categories
-The project life cycle
- Key tools and when to use them
- When other types of schedules are
appropriate
-The project environment
-Integrating risk into the project plan.
Project Organisation
-Using the WBS to develop a schedule for a
project
Allocating Resources
- Matrix management
- Benefits of allocating resources
- Making the best use of a project’s
resources through levelling
-Survival techniques
- Variables in allocating resources
Project Definition and Selection
-Using resource allocation to assign and
control project responsibility
-Objectives of a project
-Non-numeric selection
-Allocating resources to WBS elements
-Selection based on profitability
Estimating
-Requirements and customer needs
- Process for determining the cost and
duration of a project
Developing a Work Breakdown
Structure (WBS)
-The central role of the WBS
- Crashing the schedule to complete the
project on time
Controlling the Project
-Baselines
-Tools and techniques for managing against
the baseline
- Monitoring and reporting progress
-Estimating methodologies
- Controlling by managing risk
- When and how to use each methodology?
- Controlling project variance
-Steps in developing a WBS
-Using earned-value to assess the status of
a project and measure performance
-Using the WBS to clarify the scope and the
tasks of a project
Completing the Project
- When is a project complete?
- Providing concrete measurements of a
project’s success
- How to successfully wrap up a project
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