Learn with Macrosolutions to plan successful projects! Understand how the scope is defined, achievable deadlines are set and how budgets are structured to ensure the best results.

1. PROJECT
MANAGEMENT:
ESTABLISHING
COMPETITIVE
ADVANTAGES
TRAINING

2. [
TRAINING
OBJECTIVE
To deepen participants’ knowledge in project management,
presenting and detailing the knowledge areas proposed by the
PMI PMBOK Guide, as well as through other market standards and
methodologies.
Through the construction of a detailed project plan, the main
aspects of a successful project are elucidated. Starting from the
basics concepts, participants will understand the importance of
planning, the main tools for budgeting, planning and assessing
project risks. This training will also make an approach to the
procurement, communications, human resources and quality
processes.
TRAINING CONTENT
At the end of the course the student will be able to:
✓✓Distinguish projects from process
✓✓Understand the main characteristics of a successful project
manager
✓✓Decompose the project scope through the Work Breakdown
Structure (WBS)
✓✓Develop feasible schedules and identify the project’s critical
path
✓✓Identify and describe the project major risks (threats and
opportunities)
✓✓Distinguish standards and quality requirements
✓✓Identify and resolve problems that comes from the resource
allocation
✓✓Develop effective reports to communicate the main points of
the project
✓✓Identify the main changes sources for the project control
execution
✓✓Reduce time through Compression and Fast Tracking
methods
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3. [
TRAINING
FACT SHEET
DESCRIPTION
Course number of hours. The number of days depends
COURSE DURATION
on the daily number of hours dedicated in each course.
16 Hours.
The minimum number of students suggested to ensure
NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS
the training economic viability.
Minimum 20 students per class.
TARGET AUDIENCE
Project managers, project team members, sponsors and others stakeholders interested in the
project management process.
REQUIREMENTS
None.
The language in which the training is ministered.
LANGUAGE(S)
Portuguese, English and Spanish.
LOCAL
Provided by the contractor. Worldwide attendance.
Closed classes are hired by a particular organization
CLOSED CLASSES
or group. In this case all the participants are selected/
(IN COMPANY)? chosen by the contracting organization.
Yes.
Open classes offer public access in which the
OPEN CLASSES?
registration is done by each participant, individually.
No.
Professional Development Units are the measuring
CERTIFICATION AND PDU
units issued by the Project Management Institute for
All training participants will receive a the credential holders. With these units the credential
participation certificate with 16 PMI’s PDUs. holders can maintain their certifications.
(PMI R.E.P. activity number: Macro001)
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4. [
TRAINING
STANDARDS AND
METHODOLOGIES
Project management standards and methodologies discussed
and addressed in the training.
Project Management Institute (PMI) UK Office of Government Commerce (OGC)
PMBOK Guide PRINCE2 (Projects in Controlled Environments)
PMI Practice Standard for Estimating MSP (Managing Successful Programmes) —
PMI Practice Standard for Earned Value Management — M_O_R (Management of Risks) —
PMI Practice Standard for Configuration P3M3 (Portfolio, Programme, and Project
— —
Management Management Maturity Model)
PMI Practice Standard for Risk Management P3O (Portfolio, Programme and Project Offices) —
PMI Practice Standard for Work Breakdown Structure MoP (Management of Portfolios) —
PMI Practice Standard for Scheduling MoV (Management of Value) —
PMI Standard for Portfolio Management —
Scrum Alliance
PMI Standard for Program Management —
Scrum Methodology
PMI Project Manager Development Competency
Framework
International Project Management Association (IPMA)
Organizational Project Management Maturity Model
— ICB® IPMA Competence Baseline
(OPM3®)
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5. [
TRAINING
BASIC
PROGRAM
[
COURSE OPENING
[
DEFINE PROJECT MANAGEMENT
›› Introduction
›› Project management definition
›› When are projects necessary?
›› Projects characteristics
›› Define project success criteria
›› Project management benefits
›› The main causes of failures and successes in projects
›› Project management myths
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6. [
TRAINING
BASIC PROGRAM
[
THE PROJECT LIFE CYCLE
›› A project life cycle
›› The life cycle characteristics
›› The costs of changes and corrections
›› Constructive opportunity x destructive intervention
›› Fitness ability
›› Risk uncertainty x Level of risks taken
›› The phases in a project’s life cycle
›› The integration between perfornance, costs and time in projects
›› Analysing cost and duration in a project
›› The analysis of performance and investment
›› The analysis of performance and scope
[
THE MAIN AREAS OF PROJECT MANGEMENTS
›› Integration management
›› Scope management
›› Time management
›› Cost management
›› Quality management
›› Human resource management
›› Communication management
›› Risk management
›› Procurement management
[
THE PROJECT MANAGER AND HIS/HER INTERFACES
›› Definitions and skills necessary to the project manager
›› Hiring a project manager
›› The top mistakes made when recruiting a project manager
›› Conflict management
[
THE PROJECT MANAGEMENT GENERAL MODEL
›› Justification of the project’s activity flow
›› Project’s flowchart
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7. [
TRAINING
BASIC PROGRAM
[
DEFINITION PHASE
›› Problem or opportunity
›› Develop Project Charter
›› Identify the Project Manager
›› Develop the Project Plan
›› Define the project’s objective, justification,it’s main project and all of the deliverables
›› Documenting the project’s information on the Project Plan
›› Create scope alternatives for the project’s execution
›› Estimating performance, costs, time, risks and consequences involved in the selection of
alternatives
›› Documenting the alternatives in the Project Plan
›› Discarding unused information but documenting them on the Lessons Learned document
›› Developt the Scope Statement
›› Approve the Scope Statement
[
PLANNING PHASES
›› Define and group the work packages and the project deliverables (WBS)
›› Create the activity list for each work package (WBS)
›› Summary of all the project plans (by knowledge area)
›› Determining the duration of the activities
›› Identify and select the human resources for the project
›› Determining the activity dependencies (PERT)
›› Bringing together the over allocated resources
›› Determining the Critical Path (CPM)
›› Develop the project’s schedule
›› Determining the cost of the activities and the cost of the project (strategic approach only)
›› Develop the Project Plan
›› Approving the Project Plan
›› Documenting the Project Plan in the project’s archives
[
EXECUTING AND CONTROLLING PHASES
›› Executing auxiliary activies: procurement, communications, quality and scope
›› Controlling changes by using the traditional approach
›› Registering changes in the project
›› Is all the work completed?
[
COURSE CLOSE-OUT
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8. [
TRAINING
MY COOKING
PROJECT ®
EXERCISE
Ricardo Vargas had the opportunity to learn very interesting
dynamics that show the project management importance
while studying in the Strategy and Innovation program at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
During the classes, he developed a simple dynamic based on
the elaboration of a quick dinner for guests to demonstrate
the importance of establishing the appropriate strategies for
managing the project and the inherent risks to every decision
making and also to the manager risk profile.
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9. [
TRAINING
MY COOKING PROJECT EXERCISE
The dynamics is are performed in two hours with all participants.
They were divided into groups, competing for the best performance
seeking to understand the risks associated with each decision.
Features 1- Shows the influence of the RISK PROFILE of
the project decision maker.
2- Promotes TEAMWORK in the decision-
making
3- Evaluate the effectiveness of the duration
COMPRESSION mechanisms.
[ MY COOKING PROJECT®
MAPA DE RISCOS
[ MY COOKING PROJECT®
GRÁFICO DE GANTT
CENÁRIO 01
CENÁRIO 01 Tempo Total:
ALTA
0-2 2-4 4-6 6-8 8 - 10 10 - 12 12 - 14 14 - 16 16 - 18 18 - 20 20 - 22 22 - 24 24 - 26 26 - 28 28 - 30 30 - 32 32 - 34 34 - 36 36 - 38 38 - 40 40 - 42 42 - 44 44 - 46 46 - 48 48 - 50 50 - 52 52 - 54 54 - 56 56 - 58 58 - 60 62 - 64 64 - 66 66 - 68 68 - 70 70 - 72 72 - 74 74 - 76 76 - 78 78 - 80 80 - 82
PROBABILIDADE
MÉDIA
BAIXA
BAIXO MÉDIO ALTO
IMPACTO
0-2 2-4 4-6 6-8 8 - 10 10 - 12 12 - 14 14 - 16 16 - 18 18 - 20 20 - 22 22 - 24 24 - 26 26 - 28 28 - 30 30 - 32 32 - 34 34 - 36 36 - 38 38 - 40 40 - 42 42 - 44 44 - 46 46 - 48 48 - 50 50 - 52 52 - 54 54 - 56 56 - 58 58 - 60 62 - 64 64 - 66 66 - 68 68 - 70 70 - 72 72 - 74 74 - 76 76 - 78 78 - 80 80 - 82
0-2 2-4 4-6 6-8 8 - 10 10 - 12 12 - 14 14 - 16 16 - 18
CENÁRIO 02 Tempo Total:
18 - 20 20 - 22 22 - 24 24 - 26 26 - 28 28 - 30 30 - 32 32 - 34 34 - 36 36 - 38 38 - 40 40 - 42 42 - 44 44 - 46 46 - 48 48 - 50 50 - 52 52 - 54 54 - 56 56 - 58 58 - 60 62 - 64 64 - 66 66 - 68 68 - 70 70 - 72 72 - 74 74 - 76 76 - 78 78 - 80 80 - 82
CENÁRIO 02
ALTA
PROBABILIDADE
MÉDIA
BAIXA
0-2 2-4 4-6 6-8 8 - 10 10 - 12 12 - 14 14 - 16 16 - 18 18 - 20 20 - 22 22 - 24 24 - 26 26 - 28 28 - 30 30 - 32 32 - 34 34 - 36 36 - 38 38 - 40 40 - 42 42 - 44 44 - 46 46 - 48 48 - 50 50 - 52 52 - 54 54 - 56 56 - 58 58 - 60 62 - 64 64 - 66 66 - 68 68 - 70 70 - 72 72 - 74 74 - 76 76 - 78 78 - 80 80 - 82
© 2010 Ricardo Viana Vargas. Todos direitos reservados. Reprodução Proibida.
BAIXO MÉDIO ALTO
IMPACTO
© 2010 Ricardo Viana Vargas. Todos direitos reservados. Reprodução Proibida.
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10. [
TRAINING
PMCOASTER ®
DYNAMIC
It is a dynamics developed to simulate the real
projects environment.
Divided into teams, the participants will plan and
execute the construction of a functional high speed
roller coaster prototype for a theme park.
Students will define the work, evaluate the project
feasible budget and time in order to execute it. They will do so
concerning the time and costs constraints. Then, students will
execute and monitor the project to demonstrate the effectiveness
of the plan in adverse conditions.
The approximate duration of the dynamics is 2 hours and its main
objective is to show the interrelationship between the scope
required, deadlines and available budget. In addition, the aspects
related to the teamwork quality are directly addressed.
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11. [
TRAINING
PMCOASTER DYNAMIC
Features 1- Shows the direct relationship between
project SCOPE, TIME and COSTS.
2- It highlights the importance of the
DECISION MAKING in resource-limited
settings.
3- Enables participants to understand the
mechanisms directly related to the creation of
the project schedule.
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TRAINING
ADDITIONAL
DYNAMICS
As part of our methodology, in this course the following dynamics
will be used:
[
CASE STUDIES
› Ricardo Vargas and the Macrosolutions’ team have selected a relevant set of case studies and
exercises that allow the participants to associate real and fictional cases the to daily work.
› All case studies are appropriate to the nature of the client and the training audience.
[
VIDEOS SELECTION
› In order to facilitate the student learning, videos that cover various parts of movies,
commercials, home videos, etc. are used in the classroom environment to fix concepts and
associate technical issues with the reality of work and also to introduce new concepts.
› They are short videos with direct focus on specific topics, tools and cases.
[
GROUP WORK
› Several studies and exercises will be proposed by the instructor in order to present a particular
topic or discuss a particular approach to project management.
› Throughout the training the teamwork will be encouraged and strengthened as a mean for the
group to learn.
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13. [
TRAINING
EXCLUSIVE STUDENT
ACCESS AREA
In addition to the exclusive printed material,
all participants will have access to the
courseware’s electronic version, to the files
of exercises and to the work done in the
classroom.
The access is given through the restricted
site that is available and prepared by the
Macrosolutions team considering each
course that we provide. This initiative is a
pioneer in the educational market and also
anticipates trends related to the documents’
electronic management
Student Area’s on the website macrosolutions.com.br
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14. [
TRAINING
REQUIRED
EQUIPMENT
The equipment required for the proper realization of the course is:
[ HIGH RESOLUTION PROJECTOR (1024X768)
[ SOUND SYSTEM FOR VIDEO DISPLAY
[ INTERNET ACCESS
[ VARIABLE ILLUMINATION INSIDE THE CLASSROOM
[ 01 TABLE FOR EACH GROUP OF FIVE STUDENTS
[ 01 FLIP CHART FOR EACH GROUP OF FIVE STUDENTS
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15. [
TRAINING
FURTHER
INFORMATION
For further information about this course, please contact:
Phone: +55 31 3024-3003
Fax: +55 31 3024-3005
email: info@macrosolutions.com.br
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