This two days course provides classic approaches for Planning and Risk Management. It is based on both easily applicable practical approaches and PMBOK guidelines. Major ideas are how reasonable classic can help things done on schedule, on budget.

1. Focus Course:
Plan&Risk Classics
Corporate consulting

2. The niche
This is for you if you are:
▪ Looking for predictability
▪ Tired of missed deadlines, exceeded budgets
▪ Overwhelmed by micro and crisis management
▪ Looking for better planning and risk management
capabilities
▪ Not sure Agile provides expected reliefs
▪ Looking for better processes/operations efficiency
▪ Ready for better proficiency
▪ Ready to change
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3. Plan&Risk Classics
Major goals:
▪ Produce correct and complete Work Breakdown
Structures (WBS)
▪ Improve estimation accuracy for efforts, time, budget
▪ Meet contractual expectations
▪ Manage risks reasonably
▪ Remove major risks and problems at initial phases
▪ Increase project/service profitability
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4. Plan&Risk Classics. Reality
We have in real life:
▪ Poor estimations, too big or too small
▪ Hardly explainable estimations on efforts, time and
budget
▪ Missed timelines and lost money
▪ Mysterious risk reserves
▪ Mess with risks, problems, force majeure
▪ Little really working risk response plans
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5. Plan&Risk Classics. Results
Tools, skills and approaches:
▪ Correct and complete WBS, which results into
▪ Correct effort, time, budget estimates
▪ Tools to compress schedules apart of Overtimes
▪ Definition of real risks based on project/service goals
▪ Implementing risk response plans into real life
▪ Selling risk management to Customers
▪ Behavioral patterns, problems and force majeure
applicability
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6. Plan&Risk Classics. Materials
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Good theory A lot of Practice
Works in real life “Just do it” principle

7. Plan&Risk Classics. Content
Module 1. Creating WBS, techniques
▪ Product and Project scope
▪ Work Breakdown Structure
▪ WBS creation techniques
▪ Requirements traceability
▪ Efforts estimations
Module 2. Transforming WBS into Schedule
▪ Schedule influencing factors
▪ WBS to Schedule evolution
▪ Gantt chart technique
▪ Network diagram
▪ Critical path, definition and importance
▪ Schedule compression techniques
▪ Performance forecasts, Earned Value Method, Burn up/down charts
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8. Plan&Risk Classics. Content
Module 3. Risk management classics
▪ Definition of real risks and their sources + Risk Management Plan
▪ Risks identification and Stakeholders involvement
▪ Risks analysis, Risk response strategies + Risk Register
▪ How to include strategies into project plans and contracts
▪ Risks monitoring and control
▪ Risk Management quality
Module 4. Advanced Risk Management
▪ Risk Management techniques for Agile
▪ Risk mitigation at Project Initiation and initial planning
▪ How to disguise risk response plans
▪ Risks, behavioral patterns, problems, force majeure
▪ Visual Risk Management
Course duration 16 hours
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9. Contacts
Email: info@it-tuning.com
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