Course details

Overview

Content

Training Methodology

Overview ?

Course Description

This 5-days course covers knowledge and practice in managing technical projects related to R&D, construction, capacity expansion, instrumentation and control, plant outages and more.

Course Goal

To enhance the participant’s knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to improve his skills to manage technical projects

Course Objectives

By the end of this course the participant will be able to:

Identify potential problems and avoid them using troubleshooting techniques
Track projects more effectively
Create status reports that show top management where budgeting, scheduling and manpower trends are headed
Cope with tight schedules

Course Outline

Benefits of Project Management
Time, Cost and Scope
- Time-cost-scope tradeoffs and negotiations
- Gathering and documenting requirements
- Differentiating among product, process and project requirements
Project Leadership
- The Functions of Leadership
- Communication, Motivation, and Solving Problems
- Work Supervising
Project Work Plan
- The Project Work: Definition and Documentation
- Project Templates
- Appropriate Levels of Work for Groups
- Skills Needed to Achieve the Work
Network Logic/Dependency Analysis
- Network diagrams
- Key dependency relationships
- Dealing with overlapping tasks
Work Estimation
- Duration for Project Tasks
- Labor Content for Project Tasks
- Price Out the WBS
- Estimate Network
Milestone Plan
- The spreadsheet metaphor
- Project plans: asset and resource utilization, cost or budget, milestones
- Project management software examples
Projects Monitoring and Control
- The change control process
- Reporting project status and formats
- Reporting
- Corrective Action
Project Closure: Documenting Lessons Learned
- Close Out a Project
- Final Report for the Project
- "Lessons Learned"—Prevention, Detection, and Recovery

Who Can Benefit

R&D professionals, engineers (across all specialties), scientists and principal investigators, project engineers, facility engineers, plant managers and anyone else who administers technical projects.
Individuals from non-technical fields who are new to project management, as well as those looking for formal project management training.

Day 1

Asset Cost Management Introduction

Definitions of reliability, maintenance & asset management
The total cost of maintenance
Best practice reliability and maintenance processes
Elements of asset management best practice
Auditing performance
Overview of TPM, RCM, BCM, QCM, and other asset management buzzword
Open discussion sessions

Day 2

Laying the Groundwork

Day 3

Applying the Value based Process

Day 4

Ensuring the Continuity of the Value-based Process

Day 5

Supporting Process that Lower Life-cycle costs

Training Methodology

Pathways Training and consulting adopts the newest techniques of human resources Training and consulting and, with the following:

Theoretical lectures are delivered via PowerPoint and visual displays (videos and short films)
Making scientific evaluation to the trainee (before and after)
Brainstorming and role-playing
Using case studies related to the scientific material being delivered and the trainees' work.
The participants get the scientific and practical material printed and on CDs and Flash memories.
Preparing records and reports of the participants' attendance and results, with a general evaluation of the training program.
A group of the best trainers and experts in all fields and specialties professionally prepares the scientific material.
After finishing the course, the participants get certificates of attendance signed, certified, and issued by pathways Training and consulting.
Our training programs start at 9:00 o'clock in the morning and end at 2:00 in the afternoon, with snack buffet during the lectures.
Providing a lunch buffet during the training program period, with organizing a lunch party on the training program final day for taking some photos and certificate awarding.