Project Management Advanced Topics (Nova Scotia Boat Builders)

Project Management Advanced Topics (Nova Scotia Boatbuilders)

Tuesday and Wednesday, February 22 & 23, 2011

Fisheries Museum of the Atlantic

Lunenberg, Nova Scotia

Information: www.nsboats.com

Project Management

Advanced Topics, Managing Risk & Fixing Tough Projects

Modern Project Management is based upon a series of sensible steps to identify, specify, organize and track the activities of complex innovations. The aim is to produce predictable outcomes with control of budget, schedule and risk.

Sometimes that works; often it doesn’t. There usually are numerous bumps in the road, some of them substantial. The process can be frustrating, exhausting and ultimately disappointing. Depending upon your standards, the project failure rate in all fields runs from 30 to 70 percent.

It doesn’t have to be that way. When Project Managers effectively engage the real issues of their projects in a timely fashion, they produce quality results, on time and within budget.

This two-day interactive workshop engages participants in an examination of the workplace realities that people must deal with, and the process essentials they must adapt and practice amid uncertainties and changing circumstances.

Major topics are:

The six-stage process for planning and organizing a successful project:

Establishing the foundation

Organizing the Project Team

Conducting the Work Breakdown Structure process

Specifying and assigning the Project tasks; installing Quality Management

Setting the Project Schedule and identifying the Critical Path

Establishing management plans for risk, communication and resources

Major issues in team leadership and stakeholder management.

Management of Project Implementation Projects.

Understanding and rescuing troubled Projects.

Organizations need frequent tune-ups to maintain effective workflow amid change. Jim has long experience – plus creative tools -- to help executives analyze their organizations, then design and implement better ways.

Project Management is the 21st-century model for managing complex, risky innovations to on-time outcomes within budget. Jim Milliken offers workplace-tested designs in customized formats for onsite implementation and classroom training.

Communication is the lifeblood of human organization, in small partnerships and large corporations – and the pipeline to their markets. Jim provides practical approaches to all the oral and written forms.

Personal Productivity is fundamental, and it consists of skills that can be examined, practiced and perfected. Likewise Leadership and Supervision. Jim has common-sense training designs for dozens of these essentials.

There is no obligation, financial or otherwise, arising from a preliminary discussion of consultation or training solutions.