Course description
Project Management Essentials for Construction - In House
This 3-day course is designed to give project managers and project team members working in a construction environment the essential tools they need to deliver successful projects. This course utilizes a simple construction project that is developed through the complete project lifecycle, from initial project proposal and definition, through project implementation, and finally to the often neglected project completion phase.
This course is Gold Seal accredited by the Canadian Construction Association.
Upcoming start dates
Who should attend?
The Project Management Essentials for Construction course is appropriate for individuals who are:
- Responsible for managing construction projects.
- Active Participants on a project team, especially those who have not yet been exposed to the tools, techniques and terminology of formal project management.
- While of interest to contractors, the course is more targeted at “owners” and those who represent them.
Prerequisite
There is no prerequisite for this course. It functions as a stand-alone course.
Training content
Introductions and Project Management Context
- Definition of modern project management
- Portfolios, programs, projects
- Project success, project life cycles
- Governance of projects
- Workshops: Project priorities, project success
Initiating a Project
- Introduce project workshop scenario
- Stakeholders and requirements
- Team structure
- Project delivery strategies
- Contract types
- The project life cycle
- Workshops: Project stakeholders, organizing the team, scope statement, project charter
Planning – Developing the Project Plan
- The Work Breakdown Structure
- Change management plan
- Planning communications
- Risk management
- Cost estimating
- Safety planning
- Workshop: Develop project WBS, Developing project management plans, identifying risks
Planning – Developing the Project Schedule
- Types of dependency relationships
- Developing a network diagram
- Determining the “critical path” and “float time” for a project
- Developing the schedule bar chart (Gantt)
- Workshops: Calculating a precedence diagram, yellow sticky schedule, bar chart, defining the milestone schedule
Project Execution
- Contract administration?
- Conflict resolution
- Project performance reporting
- Earned value
- Workshops: Project change management, conflict management, team management, earned value, status reporting
Project Closing
- Contract administration
- Conflict resolution
- Project performance reporting
- Earned value
- Workshops: Project change management, conflict management, team management, earned value
Project Completion
- Substantial/Total Completion
- Project sign-off and handover
- The punch list
- Lessons learned
- Workshop: Lessons learned
Wrap-up
- Introducing modern PM into an organization
- Evaluations
- Quiz (Optional)
Certification / Credits
Credits: 14 or 21 PDUs/CEUs
Learning Objectives
Participants will gain practical skills to:
- Identify and avoid common causes of project failure.
- Identify options for structuring a project team.
- Develop clear project purpose, deliverable and objectives statements.
- Identify key areas of project risk, assess their impact and identify strategies for managing risks.
- Communicate with contractors.
- Develop project scope by separating into discrete, manageable, measurable deliverables
- Model the flow and timing of a project.
- Identify “critical path” high priority tasks.
- Measure project status and performance with respect to cost and time.
- Create a productive team environment.
- Implement steps to properly close-out a project.
Contact this provider
Procept Associates Ltd.
Since 1963, Procept (and its subsidiaries) have trained over 1 million people from over 17,000 organizations. We focus on developing competencies in project management, change management, agile management, leadership, business analysis, IT and data management, as well as soft skill...