Office of Continuing Education
University of Wisconsin-Platteville
1 University Plaza
Platteville, WI 53818
Phone: 608.342.1314
Toll Free: 888.281.9472
E-Mail: maciejhm@uwplatt.edu
Project Management - On-site Training
Instructors
Your instructors are seasoned professionals with experience in industry, government, and academia. They specialize in project management and project management capability improvement. The focus of their training is to enhance overall organizational and individual project management skills, knowledge, and competency. For details see here.Overview
These multi-day workshops are available for on-site training of employees in organizations committed to excellence and continuous enterprise improvement.
Project Management Tools and Techniques (5 days)
Develop the basic knowledge base of people working as project managers and project personnel, who perceive project management as their career path. Gain a firm grounding in project management principles, across the breadth of the project management body of knowledge. Learn the key concepts in managing a project from initiation to final closeout, placing the project management processes in an organized framework. Build the skills necessary to use MS Project 2003 as a tool in planning, monitoring, and managing projects.Project Management Office (2 days)
Project Management Office (PMO) is both project-focused and enterprise-oriented. It includes a focus on quick results and use in crisis situations, along with establishing and ensuring consistent project management practices throughout the organization. The PMO serves as the organizational focal point for project portfolio management and best practices, consulting, mentoring, training, and setting objectives to continuously improve enterprise project management processes. It is the entity of choice for organizations that desire to excel in and set standards for managing successful projects.
Virtual Teams (2 days)
Today, the virtual project environment is a reality and will become more prevalent in the future. It represents a dramatic change in how we work on projects and presents a new challenge for all project professionals. Find out about the special characteristics and common features of virtual teams, as they pertain to achieving organizational goals through projects. Explore the key factors for team success – communication, collaborative leadership, fostering commitment, and conflict resolution. Determine the maturity level of your virtual team.
Project Management Metrics (2 days)
Metrics are present through all phases and facets of project management. Sound metrics practices are essential to major project management activities – project planning, monitoring, and control. Metrics help the enterprise understand its collective capabilities, so achievable plans for producing and delivering products and services can be developed. Formalized metrics systems go beyond cost performance in measuring organizational maturity, team maturity, and team member behavior. Metrics have the potential to serve as barometers of organizational project management maturity.
Project Portfolio Management (2 days)
There is a long-standing need for formalized tools to help enterprises optimize their investments in their projects. A portfolio management system identifies projects that best serve the business goals of the organization. The portfolio management process includes evaluating, prioritizing, and selecting new projects – and ensuring that both long-term and short-term needs of the organization are met. Portfolio management is primarily known for prioritizing prospective projects, but its functions also include accelerating, decelerating, or terminating ongoing projects.
Managing Multiple Projects (2 days)
Program management deals with the challenges of managing multiple and complex projects. The primary objective is to manage a group of related projects, in line with organizational strategies, and with limited enterprise resources. The organizational unit responsible for program management handles project planning, scheduling, estimating, allocating resources, and controlling schemas. Program management implementation sometimes includes an abbreviated portfolio management system, a metrics system, and selected features of a project management office.
PMP® Refresher (4 days)
This comprehensive seminar emphasizes the key concepts in each of the five project management processes and in professional responsibility. Sample test questions are formatted to be similar to the actual exam. Individual and group exercises provide an opportunity to apply critical project management concepts to project management work. The approach is to ensure that you will recognize the critical components of each of the five project management processes and professional responsibility, so you are ready to take the PMP® exam.
TopProject Management Excellence Team Biographies
Parviz F. Rad is the Principal of Project Management Excellence and lives in New Jersey. He holds
an M.Sc. Degree from Ohio State University and a Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
He has over 35 years of professional experience during which he has served in governmental,
industrial, and academic capacities. He has participated in project management activities and in
development and enhancement of quantitative tools in project management in a multitude of
disciplines including software development, construction, and pharmaceutical research. He has
authored and coauthored over sixty publications in the areas of engineering and project management.
Dr. Rad has been recognized as a Professional Civil Engineer, Certified Cost Engineer, and as a
Project Management Professional. Dr. Rad is the former Editor of the Project Management Journal.
Ginger Levin is the Co-Principal of Project Management Excellence and lives in Florida. She
received her doctorate in information systems technology and public administration from The
George Washington University, where she received the outstanding dissertation award for her
research on large organizations. Dr. Levin is a Senior Consultant and educator in project
management. Her specialty areas include project management maturity modeling, organizational
assessments, metrics, and program evaluation and auditing. She is also an Adjunct Professor for
the University of Wisconsin-Platteville in its M.S. in Project Management program and is its
Project Management Program Specialist.
Tony Munos is a Senior Trainer and Consultant for Project Management Excellence, as well as
Professor of Project Management at the University of New South Wales, and lives in Wisconsin.
Professor Munos has over 36 years of experience in project management and systems integration
for a variety of projects with the Air Force and with Computer Science Corporation. He has over
4 years distance education experience as a Project Management class facilitator for a Master’s
degree program for the University of New South Wales. He continually receives the highest evaluation from
students and the University for his performance as a project management faculty.
UW-Platteville Accreditation
The University of Wisconsin-Platteville is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission and is a member of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools.
www.ncahigherlearningcommission.org.
Phone: 312-263-0456
Program and Price Information
If you are interested in bringing one or more on-site training programs to your facility, please call Marian Maciej-Hiner at UW-Platteville Continuing Education toll-free (888) 281-9472 or email maciejhm@uwplatt.edu.