Advanced Project Management

TRACK provides state-of-the-art techniques, and tools to manage any project effectively and on a higher level of expertise. You will practice your skills in developing and confirming project scope, building project requirements and developing and interpreting network diagrams. You will learn a sound, logical framework for creating project schedules and controlling project activities utilising earned-value data.

Individual and small-group exercises feature scenarios that help enhance these skills and a comprehensive toolkit provides practical field guidance. Case studies with presentations and group discussions about own project experiences are facilitated throughout this training.

Project Management Professional (PMP^®) certified. Our TRACK trainers have over 15 years professional experience in project management in various industries and are specialized in Information Technology projects.

PMI Program ID: CH1TRA

PDU's: 24

Target Groups:

• Project Team Members
• Project Managers
• Experienced project managers

To control projects, key interlocking parameters of scope, quality, time and cost are identified. While much organisational effort goes, rightly, into ensuring product scope and quality, and much business focus is directed at time, the other controlling parameter of projects, cost, is often neglected, or at best the subject of concern, but no action.

You will learn to access to cost information as a lever to liberate creativity and to ensure valid choices are made in the delivery of project results.

The course builds on proven project management techniques developed in leading industries to provide a tried and tested methodology for dealing systematically with project costs. It is a practical course, focussed on real concerns of projects supported by case studies and exercises.

Certified PMP^® project management practitioner and cost management expert with many years of experience in various industries.

PMI Program ID: COST

Target Groups:

• Project Managers
• Project Team Members
• Experienced project managers

In a developing project environment, good intentions of planning and control are often overtaken by 'events'. The challenge for the project management organisation, and its key project staff, is to develop skills that can cope with the uncertainties that are inherent in any project environment.

This course builds on proven project management techniques to provide the project manager and other key players with a tried and tested methodology for dealing systematically with project risks.

This is a practical course, focussed on real concerns of projects. It gives participants the opportunity to develop solutions for their own projects, and to share ideas on controlling project risk. Group work and case studies are a central part in the training.

Certified PMP^® project management practitioner and risk management specialist with many years of experience in various industries.

PMI Program ID: RISK

Target Groups:

• Project Managers
• Project Team Members

Especially project managers of IT projects are more and more faced with the situation that part of their resources or their vendors are situated off-shore. This creates new challenges in many aspects, such as working with remote and culturally diverse teams. In this 2-day course you will learn about off-shore countries and different ways to work and be able to develop your own approach for managing vendors and off-shore projects. Furthermore, good tips and best practices in procurement management and contracting as well as processes and templates currently used in your organization can be gained.

The training employs case studies and role plays that are specifically selected to demonstrate effective communication and negotiation in various situations. A better understanding of the European culture vs. Asian cultures is supported by experience reports. The training is highly interactive with ample opportunities for individual feedback. Participants will work in teams and in small groups for reflection and discussions.

Certified PMP^® project management practitioner with many years of experience in various countries and cultures.

PMI Program ID: PMOV2D

PDU's: 16

Target Groups:

• Project Team Members
• Purchasing & Supplier Managers
• Project managers working with off-shore vendors or off-shore resources

The traditional plan-driven approach for project management sometimes fails for some project types, such as innovation projects or software development projects. These project types work in uncertain or constantly changing environment due to unknown technologies and changing or emerging requirements. Dynamic project Management and Scrum techniques embrace change and bring customers competitive advantage by reducing the time needed for development activities. The project life cycle gets broken down into several iterations. At the end of each iteration the team delivers the system or development task increment and the customer can evaluate the outcome and plan the next iteration. Early and constant feedback allows for a close alignment to business needs and produces the results that are really needed, even if they were not specified right at the start.

A comprehensive overview of Scrum methods and tools will be given during this course and are included in the training materials as take-away for the training participants.

Both new project managers and experienced project managers who wish to refresh their skills or develop an understanding of dynamic project management processes and Scrum techniques. You will gain an understanding of the strategies and skills necessary to manage projects of any size.

DSDM and Scrum Master certified. Our DPM instructors have over 15 years professional experience in Project Management in various industries and are specialized in Information Technology projects.

PMI Program ID: DICENOVA

PDU's: 24

Target Groups:

• Project Managers
• Project Team Members of Scrum Projects

A project office is defined as the centre for portfolio management, methodology development, talent pool monitoring, assessment and career path provision as well as project support and coaching. This course provides fundamental information required to identify and quantify the need for a project office as well as the tools, techniques and processes to successfully implement it.

Participants learn the essentials of project management office design, development and implementation from experienced professionals. The course is outlined in the style of a workshop where participants can develop their own mission statements, implementation plans, etc.

Certified PMP^® project management practitioner, senior consultant and project coach.

PMI Program ID: CH01PO

PDU's: 16

Target Groups:

• Experienced project managers
• Project Team Members