On-Site Training Only  
 Length: 2 days 
 Number of Participants: Up to 20
 Materials: Notebooks and handouts provided

This Seminar deals with issues leading to more productive and knowledgeable project managers and will assist any one who is responsible for converting strategy into reality. It will also enable the development of project management skills to complement technical expertise and provide the skills stakeholders require.

Target audience

• Business Planners

• Decision makers and administrators responsible for managing projects

• Architects, Estimators and Surveyors

• Technical professionals, engineers and schedulers

• Construction Managers

• Senior Project Managers

• Consultants

• Owners & Developers

BENEFITS OF ATTENDING

• Understand various Project delivery systems

• Conduct a Cash Flow Analysis

• Apply Advanced Scheduling techniques

• Improve Managerial Approaches

• Learn how to estimate effort, duration and cost of a project.

• Learn advanced project planning, scheduling and control skills

• Learn how to set up teams, motivate, delegate, and negotiate

• Achieve measurable performance improvements

• Learn how to tailor reports to summarize appropriate information

• Generate staff ownership and responsibility for change

• Confront real-life project problems using experience gained from hands-on classroom challenges

• Network to find out how your peers handle projects in organizations worldwide

• Address many of today's toughest project management challenges with increased knowledge and confidence

Day One

Fundamentals of Project Management

• Project, Program, Operations, Life Cycle

• Processes – Initiate, Plan, Execute, Control and Close

• Project Management in Asia Pacific

• Project Structures

Triple Constraints

• Stakeholders, Needs, Specification, Exclusions

• Work Breakdown Structure

• Scope Control & Conflict

• Project Exercise on a Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Project

• Network Analysis - Calculating the Critical Path, Float, Start & Finish

• Crashing and Fast-Tracking Schedules

• Project Exercise on a Power Project

• Financial Tools - NPV, Payback Period, Discount Rate

• Estimating methods

• Reserves and Contingencies

• Project Exercise on a Transportation Project

 Project Co-ordination

• Contractors' risks

• The Role of a Project Manager

• Management by Objectives, General Management

• Change Control, Evaluation, Reporting Progress

• Exercise in Trade-Offs

Total Quality Management

• Quality & Grade, ISO, Six Sigma

• Quality Policy, Cost of Quality

• Planning, Assurance & Control

• Team Exercise on a Manufacturing Project

Day Two

Managing Communications

• Communication Channels

• Types of & Barriers to Communication

• Reporting, Earned Value Management

• Earned Value Exercises

Managing Business Risks

• Classification of risks

• Identification, Analyses, Response & Monitoring

• Probability, Impact & Expected Monetary Value

• Risk Management Exercise

Leadership

• Roles and responsibilities

• Staff, Team Development & Motivation

• Delegation and Empowerment

• Spectrum of Leadership Styles

• Forms of organizational structures

• Sources of power, Conflict

• Mediation Exercise

Contract Management

• Competitive Bidding, Pre-qualification, Developing Pricing Agreements

• Milestones, Schedules and Payment Mechanisms

• Calculating the cost of ownership, “make or buy” decisions

• Evaluation and Selection

• Project Negotiation

• Award and Contract Administration

• Procurement Management Exercise

• Variations and Claims

• Delay, Disruption, Breach of Contract and Force Majeur

• Late Performance and Liquidated Damages

• Resolving Contract Disputes

• Arbitration