Project Management Essentials: One Day to Better Projects

Interested in new skills for the new year?

Take the Professional Development Collaborative's "Project Management Essentials:  One Day to Better Projects" training to learn the fundamental tools and techniques that are key to successful project management. This one day course will provide participants the tools to develop and manage a project from inception to conclusion including:   how to plan and estimate your work, sequence activities, evaluate progress and obstacles, and collaborate with staff and stakeholders to get the job done. This interactive training uses actual workplace or personal projects to quickly bring you up to speed on ways to get the most out of your own workplace projects.

You'll acquire a powerful set of project tools and then collaborate with team members to use these tools to plan, estimate, manage and report on your projects.  You'll leave with a thorough understanding of a project manager's role in creating a project plan and following it through to successful completion.

Who Will Benefit: This course provides valuable skills, tools and techniques for anyone who manages a project in manufacturing, financial services, high tech, health care, or the bio-tech industries.

Key Benefits to Participants:

• Understanding of the roles of project manager and the project team

• Ability to generate sound estimates of the effort and duration of current projects

• Ability to create a reliable project plan including Work Breakdown Structure

• Ability to identify project risks and communicate progress towards your goals

Location:  Professional Development Collaborative Training Center in Trinity Church, 1 Blue Hill River Rd., Canton, MA.

The Professional Development Collaborative, Inc. is a non-profit education and training center for professionals in transition who are seeking to grow their skills and utilize their expertise in a professional setting. 

Presenter:  Jack Nevison is founder and President of New Leaf Project Management. He is the author of six books and is a contributor to the original 1996 edition of The PMBOK® Guide and is currently a team leader for the upcoming Fifth Edition revision. He has designed several interactive games (Herding Cats©, Stays & Days©, and QPM©) to enhance the mastery of PM skills, speaks and writes regularly on topics of interest to project managers and is a past president of the Mass Bay Chapter of the Project Management Institute (PMI®) and a certified Project Management Professional (PMP®).