Project Management for Engineers Workshop

Overview

This Project Management for Engineers Workshop helps to build ability for effectively leading engineering projects and teams. It’s a practical approach for developing project management skills, focusing on fundamentals and best practices helpful for engineering-oriented projects, with an immediately actionable plan facilitated for each individual or for the entire group.

Whether your participants are experienced project managers or just getting started with management responsibility, this workshop can quickly boost effectiveness. Thousands of engineering leaders have benefitted from this approach for over 20 years.

Flexible uses:

• Standard or customized training for a specific group in your company
• Tailored sessions to facilitate organizational goals and problem-solving
• Piloting to consider adding to your company’s learning program
• Licensing the content to include in your learning curriculum

Learning Objectives:

• Leverage practical methods for better project outcomes
• Facilitate project communication to serve stakeholder needs
• Effectively manage project risks and tradeoff decisions
• Increase project visibility and predictability
• Efficiently adapt to changes and new information
• Implement useful measures of success and continuous improvement

Format: Three 2-hour sessions (remote) or one full-day session (onsite)

Key Benefits:

• Facilitated Action Plan
• Excel Templates
• Engineering Case Studies and Examples
• Pre-Session Work & Post-Session Follow-Up
• Experienced Engineering Leader Instructor

Contact us for scheduling, or book a call here to discuss your goals, timeline and questions.

Course Outline

Project Management Fundamentals

• Project management goals & challenges
• Key project success factors
• Project management terminology
• Managing requirements and tradeoffs
• Metrics and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
• Cost of delay

Project Lifecycle Models and Frameworks

• Waterfall and sequential models
• Agile models and frameworks
• Staged Delivery Model
• Spiral Model
• Design-to-Schedule Model
• Hybrid models
• Lifecycle model exercise

Initial Project Planning

• Successful project kickoffs
• Estimating and planning flow
• Methods for initial estimates
• Estimation exercise
• Project planning elements and templates
• Focus areas and key criteria for success
• Project planning exercise

Schedule Management and Ongoing Refinement

• Waterfall and Agile scheduling approaches
• Scheduling tools
• Dependency management
• Risk mitigation
• Estimate refinement and methods
• Estimating and scheduling exercise

Project Visibility and Successful Execution

• Stakeholder engagement and support
• Demonstrating tangible progress
• Facilitating timely decisions
• Real-time visibility methods and tools
• Summary of key points and quiz

What’s included: Live instructor-led course, workshop materials, facilitated action plan, Excel planning templates, and follow-up guidance.

Professional Development Units: 8.0 PDUs

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