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DETAILS:
Cost: $895
Length: 2 days
When:
Fall 2008
September 17-18
OR
November 19-20
Winter 2009
February 17-18
Spring 2009
April 21-22
Time:
8:00 a.m. - Continental Breakfast
8:30 a.m. - 4 p.m. - Class
Location:
Buckhead Executive Education Center |
Program Description
Effective management in today's world requires adaptation to change. In turn, any change within an organization requires project management. In this hands-on program, participants will learn to initiate, plan, monitor, control, and close projects. Participants will be able to acquire the skills needed to complete projects on time, within scope and budget, while meeting quality standards. Participants will also develop a working knowledge of MS Project®.
Through individual and team exercises, participants will receive a complete project management training experience. The program will focus on identifying customer needs, defining project scope and objectives, identifying project risks, creating a project work breakdown structure, and generating a project schedule and budget. Participants will develop a comprehensive project plan, including time, cost, and quality objectives, and execute a dedicated approach to monitoring and controlling progress according to the project plan. Participants will also learn from actual examples of project plan illustrations.
This program is designed to benefit two groups:
- Project managers and project team members who need a practical, working knowledge of the structured project management methodology. Both project managers and team members will develop a practical, working knowledge of the project management process. Project team members will develop a "hands-on" understanding of how project activities and actions fit together interactively within a "systems" effort.
- Program managers and general managers in organizations with significant oversight responsibilities for projects, but not necessarily direct responsibility as a project manager. These managers may actually manage projects directly in some instances, but in many instances, these individuals are really "managers of project managers" or managers who have general responsibility for an entire program of projects.
Participants Will Learn To:
- Define customer project needs
- Draft the project charter and define project scope
- Develop a project work breakdown structure and network diagram
- Estimate activity durations and generate a project schedule
- Identify and plan project resources
- Strategically balance project duration, cost, and scope
- Execute, monitor, and control a project against the plan
- Apply project management software
Richard H. Deane, PMP, PE, Ph.D., is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Managerial Sciences at the Robinson College of Business. His main interests are in the practical application of project management principles in both profit and nonprofit organizations. Richard regularly consults for organizations such as the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, Scientific-Atlanta, Lithonia Lighting, General Electric, ING, and various public and private health organizations. He has won numerous teaching awards at Georgia State, Georgia Tech, and Purdue University and is a registered professional engineer and a certified Project Management Professional. Richard holds his Ph.D. from Purdue University.
Mark Keil is the Board of Advisors Professor of Computer Information Systems (CIS) in the J. Mack Robinson College of Business at Georgia State University. He holds a joint appointment in the Department of Computer Science. His research focuses on IT project management and includes work on preventing IT project escalation, identifying and managing IT project risks, and improving IT project status reporting. His interests also include IT implementation and use. In 2005, he received the Georgia State University Alumni Distinguished Professor Award for outstanding achievements in scholarship, teaching and service. He has also received J. Mack Robinson College of Business Faculty Recognition Awards for both Outstanding Teaching and Distinguished Contributions in Research.
Mark has published more than 100 refereed publications including papers that have appeared in MIS Quarterly, Decision Sciences, Journal of Management Information Systems, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Strategic Management Journal, Sloan Management Review, California Management Review, Communications of the ACM, IEEE Software and many other journals. He currently serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Management Information Systems and Decision Sciences. He also has served as an Associate Editor for MIS Quarterly, as Co-Editor of The DATA BASE for Advances in Information Systems and as a member of the editorial board of IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management. Mark has been active in the Academy of Management and has served as Chair of the Organizational Communication and Information Systems (OCIS) Division.
He has conducted executive training for Southwire Corporation and the law offices of Palmer & Dodge (now Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge). He also has taught in the Erasmus University Executive Masters in Business Informatics. He has been a featured speaker at Deutsche Bank's Group Technology & Operations center in Eschborn, Germany, as well as the Heartlands Chapter of the Project Management Institute in Omaha, Nebraska.
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Register online
Phone: 404.413.7300
Fax: 404.413.7035
Email: dporter@gsu.edu
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Mailing Address:
Office of Executive Programs
P.O. Box 3994
Atlanta, GA 30302-3994 |
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| What Past Participants Say
- "It's nice to take a course with an expert, and I have this sense of great expertise about Richard Deane. Also, [he has a] great sense of humor!"
-- Jeff Kryder (Consultant)
- "Professor Deane did an outstanding job of running the course and using understandable examples." -- Steve Pederson (Senior Consultant)
- "Richard Deane should teach professors/instructors how to teach!"
-- Ian Kistler (Electronics Dev. Engineer)
- "I most liked the practicality; Richard Deane kept from making the class too 'academic.'" -- Robert H. Fuzzell
- "Richard Deane is very engaging and is able to really bring the material alive." -- Francis L. Hutchins III (Financial Analyst)
- "Very good BANG for the BUCK!" -- Jeff Wambadt
- "Richard Deane is a wonderful, engaging and knowledgeable instructor!"
-- Barbara Davis
- "I'm normally not so positive, but this was a good class." -- Jason Smith (Human Resources Manager)
- "I was impressed in the MBA orientation, and this class furthered that impression. The real corporate experience helps to trust Richard Deane."
--Danielle Amdur (Business Process Consultant/Project Manager)
- "I cannot believe how MUCH I have learned in 2 days. I can't wait for a NEW PROJECT! Richard Deane is fantastic!" -- Justine McClimon (Project Manager)
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