Project Management Training Hyderabad: November 2013

Friday 29 November 2013

Introduction For MSP

Introduction to Microsoft Project Professional

Microsoft Project is one of the world’s leading PMs toolbox solution providing Managers the possibility to plan, manage, and communicate project information, resulting in increased productivity and effectiveness. Using Microsoft Project, the users can quickly create project plans by using project templates, import task lists from Excel spreadsheets, follow the online guide or build one’s own plan.

Project provides ability to track your people, equipment, and other resources in Project for greater insight into their utilization and scheduling. One can also test scenarios with a clearer understanding of their impact on the schedule—and easily reverse the changes. Project also enhances reporting thereby enabling users to set clear expectations to stakeholders, either directly through Project reports or through integration with other Microsoft Office system applications.

Microsoft Project empowers users to:

Plan effectively ensuring timely project delivery meeting critical project deadlines.

Track effectively incorporating changes into the scope, time and cost elements of the project.

Communicate project information effectively to stakeholders increasing transparency and predictability.

Advance PM Training Programs in Hyderabad

Earned Value Managment (EVM)

Earned value management is a tool that allows project/program managers to have a very high visibility into technical, cost, and schedule progress on their contracts. The implementation of an earned value management system is a recognized function of program management. It ensures that cost, schedule and technical aspects of the contract are truly integrated

Theory of Constrains (TOC)

Theory of Constraints walks you through the crucial stages of a continuous program: the five steps of focusing; the process of change; how to prove effect-cause-effect; and how to invent simple solutions to complex problems. Every project whether it is small or large, whether customers are internal or external, or whether the nature of the work performed is product development, construction, design, IT

Earned Value Managment (EVM)

Earned value management is a tool that allows project/program managers to have a very high visibility into technical, cost, and schedule progress on their contracts. The implementation of an earned value management system is a recognized function of program management. It ensures that cost, schedule and technical aspects of the contract are truly integrated

Tuesday 26 November 2013

What is TOC PM?

Uncertainty is why we need project management. How we manage for uncertainty is at the core of improvement of project performance, getting projects done both faster and with better reliability of the promised deliverable dates. The approach to project management known as "Critical Chain Scheduling and Buffer Management" provides mechanisms to allow a "whole system" view of projects. It identifies and protects what's critical from inevitable uncertainty, and as a result, avoids major impact of Parkinson's Law at the task level while accounting for Murphy's Law at the project level.

Project managers and teams need to shift their attention from assuring the achievement of task estimates and intermediate milestones to assuring the only date that matters -- the final promised due date. Safety that is typically built into tasks to cover Murphy's Law is inefficient, leading to longer than necessary (or acceptable) schedules, and apparently ineffective, given the impact of Parkinson's Law from which many projects suffer.

Many people who encounter TOC for the first time, look for a simple explanation of the body of knowledge. In essence, TOC is a process of ongoing improvement for any system, be it business, personal or environmental. It is a more effective approach than all the other approaches bandied about, since it is based on a common sense approach to change.

This can be described as follows:

A system's current performance is determined and dictated by the constraint that exists within it.
Performance of the system can only be improved if the constraint is permanently removed.
When the constraint is removed, the system moves to higher level of performance, and immediately encounters another constraint.

The Theory of Constraints is very effective at increasing the performance of business systems

Effective Project Management using Oracle Primavera P6

The purpose of this workshop is to impart competency to Project Managers, Planners and Scheduling engineers to effectively utilize Oracle Primavera P6 to plan, cost, resource, baseline, publish, track and report on projects

Key Concepts

Introduction to Primavera P6
Learn about Data, Navigation and Layouts
Enterprise Project Structure
Creating a Project/ WBS
Adding Activities/Relationships/Scheduling/Constraints
Project Documents Library
Roles and Resources/ Assigning resources & Costs
Analyzing Resources/ Optimizing Plans
Base lining the Project Plan
Learn about Project Execution and Control
Reporting Project Performance

Course Structure

Instructor led - Fully Hands-on workshop

Course Content

The detailed course outline is listed below.

Target Audience

The above course structure is tailored for Project Managers, End Users, Business Analysts & Functional Implementers.

Course Pre-requisites

Basic understanding of Project Management will be an added advantage.

Course Delivery

This course can be customized to the customer’s environment, business logic and constraints.

Duration and Time

This course needs a dedicated commitment of five days

Time: Daily from 9:30 AM to 5:30 PM

Detailed Course Outline:

Introduction to Primavera P6	Learn about - Formatting Schedule information
Learn about- Data, Navigation and Layouts	How to group activities based on criteria
How to Log in	How to sort activities
How to open an existing project	How to apply a filter
How to navigate in the Home window and Activities window	How to create a filter
How to Open an existing layout	Learn about - Roles and Resources
How to customize a layout	What are roles
How to save a layout	How to view the roles dictionary
Learn about – EPS	Learn about resources
How to View the EPS	Learn about the differences between labor, nonlabor and material resources
Learn about - Creating a Project	How to view the resource dictionary
How to create a project	Learn about - Assigning Roles
How to navigate in the Projects window	How to assign roles to an activity
How to work with information in Project Details	How to assign rates to roles
Learn about - Creating a WBS	Learn about - Assigning Resources and Costs
How to Define a WBS	How to assign resources by role
How to create multilevel WBS hierarchy	How to assign labor, nonlabor, and material resources to activities
Learn about- Adding Activities	How to adjust Budgeted values for a resource
How to define an activity and its components	How to assign expenses to activities
How to define activity types	Learn about -Analyzing Resources
How to add activities	How to display the Usage Profiles
How to add a topic to an activity	Learn about formatting a profile
How to add steps to an activity	Learn about formatting the timescale
How to assign activity codes to activities	Learn about- Optimizing the Project Plan
Learn about - Creating Relationships	Learn about analyzing schedule dates
How to view a network diagram	How to shorten a project schedule
Learn about four relationship types	Learn how to analyze resource availability
How to create relationships in the Activity Network	Resolving resource over allocation
How to create relationships in Activity Details	Learn how to analyze project costs
Learn about - Scheduling	Learn about - Base lining the Project Plan
How to do a forward and backward pass	How to create a baseline plan
Learn about float and its impact on a schedule	How to display baseline bars on the Gantt Chart
How to Identify loops and open paths	How to modify the bars on the Gantt Chart
How to calculate a project schedule	Learn about- Project Execution and Control
How to analyze the scheduling log report	Learn about methods for updating the project schedule
Learn about - Assigning Constraints	How to use Progress Spotlight
How to apply a project deadline	Set activity status
How to apply constraints	How to reschedule the project
How to add topics to constrained activities	Learn about - Reporting Performance
How to view the available constraint types	What are various reporting methods
Learn about – Managing Project Documents Library	How to run a schedule report
Learn about difference between a work product and a reference document	How to create a report with the Report wizard
How to create a document record	How to create a time distributed report
How to link the document to a project document or work product	How to create a report using the current layout
How to assign the project document to an activity or WBS

What is EPM ?

Enterprise Project Management (EPM) is a systems approach to achieving organizational goals by aligning people and projects to strategic objectives. Enterprise Project Management leverages people, processes, and technology to create the change needed to keep the organizations pulse current and competitive.

The Microsoft Enterprise Project Management (EPM) Solution is a flexible, end-to-end PPM platform,used by organizations across a broad variety of industries to automate primary PPM processes. The EPM Solution helps organizations accomplish the following business imperatives:

Intuitively capture all requests within a central repository, and manage them using governance workflow – Demand Management
Objectively prioritize, optimize, and select project portfolios that best align with the organization’s business strategy – Portfolio Selection and Analytics
Proactively and reactively manage resources throughout the project life cycle – Resource Management
Easily create and communicate both simple and complex project schedules – Schedule Management
Control and measure project and portfolio financial performance – Financial Management
Simplify the collection of time and task status updates from team members – Time and Task Management
Better connect disparate teams to share information and drive collaboration – Team Collaboration
Identify, mitigate, and communicate issues and risks that could adversely affect project success – Issues and Risk Management
Effectively measure project performance and gain visibility and control across all portfolios – Business Intelligence and Reporting
Initiate, plan, and deliver strategic programs – Program Management

Demand Management
Demand management offers a unified view of all work in a central location. Its purpose is to quickly help organizations gain visibility into projects and operational activities; standardize and streamline data collection; enhance decision making; and subject initiatives to the appropriate governance controls throughout their life cycles. The Microsoft EPM Solution provides flexible demand management capabilities to help organizations accomplish the following:

Build governance workflows to subject different types of work requests—for example, a help desk ticket, or a project of any size—to the appropriate controls throughout the life cycle of the issue or project.
Standardize and streamline data collection by using configurable forms and business case templates.
Capture all requests in a central repository to enhance visibility.

Portfolio Selection and Analytics
In uncertain economic times, many executives are being asked to do more with less. Pressure to reduce or maintain budgets is driving sharper scrutiny of discretionary spending, and increases the importance of effectively identifying, selecting, and delivering project portfolios that best align with an organization’s business strategy and that maximize ROI. Best-practice portfolio selection techniques provide a handshake between value optimization—that is, alignment with business priorities and maximizing ROI—and resource utilization, or understanding resource capabilities and availability. Together, they help PMOs recommend not only which projects to undertake, but to forecast when projects can be delivered.

Aligning spending with business strategy can be very subjective. It is made less so if organizations adopt structured techniques for defining, prioritizing, and communicating business imperatives, and consistently evaluate each competing initiative that contributes to strategic priorities. Adopting a structured process enforces a rational rather than emotional approach to decision making, and in addition, ensures that projects are funded based on business priorities rather than on a “first-come, first-served” basis.Adopting structured portfolio selection processes and techniques helps organizations accomplish the following:

Define and communicate the business strategy
Drive executive consensus around business driver priorities
Objectively prioritize competing projects from multiple dimensions
Identify the optimal portfolio under varying budget and portfolio constraints
Effectively communicate tradeoffs
Maximize resource utilization

Resource Management
In today’s competitive and changing markets, organizations are looking to maximize ROI and drive efficiencies to sustain the business and support future growth. Resources are arguably an organization’s most valuable asset and potentially its biggest expense. Proper management and optimal use of resources is key for an organization to realize its business strategy. With intelligent resource management, an organization can develop and retain a world-class workforce.

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What is EPM ?

Intuitively capture all requests within a central repository, and manage them using governance workflow – Demand Management
Objectively prioritize, optimize, and select project portfolios that best align with the organization’s business strategy – Portfolio Selection and Analytic
Proactively and re actively manage resources throughout the project life cycle – Resource Management
Easily create and communicate both simple and complex project schedules – Schedule Management
Control and measure project and portfolio financial performance – Financial Management
Simplify the collection of time and task status updates from team members – Time and Task Management
Better connect disparate teams to share information and drive collaboration – Team Collaboration
Identify, mitigate, and communicate issues and risks that could adversely affect project success – Issues and Risk Management
Effectively measure project performance and gain visibility and control across all portfolios – Business Intelligence and Reporting
Initiate, plan, and deliver strategic programs – Program Management

Build governance workflows to subject different types of work requests—for example, a help desk ticket, or a project of any size—to the appropriate controls throughout the life cycle of the issue or project.
Standardize and streamline data collection by using configurable forms and business case templates.
Capture all requests in a central repository to enhance visibility.

Define and communicate the business strategy
Drive executive consensus around business driver priorities
Objectively prioritize competing projects from multiple dimensions
Identify the optimal portfolio under varying budget and portfolio constraints
Effectively communicate tradeoffs
Maximize resource utilization

CONTACT US

HYDERABAD - 502 B Vijaya Towers, Shanti Nagar, Masab Tank, Hyderabad - 500028, INDIA. Tel: +(91)40 233 00048 | Mobile: +(91) 7207 394 199 |Email:trainings (at) proventuresindia (dot) com
BANGALORE - #111, 10th Main, Nandanam Layout, Horamavu Main Road, Kalyan Nagar P.O. Bangalore - 560 043 | Mobile: +(91) 9490755720 |Email: prashanth (at) proventuresindia (dot) com