Your Guide to Project Management Success

Ready to take project management to the next level? Need training in project fundamentals, scheduling, cost management, risk, communications, presentation skills or PMP® Certification Exam preparation? Pritchard Management Associates programs offer dynamic, entertaining, memorable insights into the core skills of project management and open the door for hands-on learning that sticks. Participants walk away with more than just the Professional Development Units (PDUs) Pritchard Management offers as a PMI® Registered Education Provider. They get training that is organizationally specific and that reflects their culture. And if we don’t currently have an offering to match what you need? Contact us! We have developed courses for over 20 years for some of the leading training organizations in the industry. Working with your personnel, we can develop programs that range from the fundamental to the advanced, all the while maintaining Pritchard Management Associates’ commitment to a memorable training experience.

PMP® Certification Exam Preparation Support

Course Duration: As Requested by the Client

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PMP® Certification Exam Support! This is Pritchard Management’s coaching powerhouse of information aligned with the latest version of the PMP(r) certification exam. In addition to the coaching, you get an on-line practice test interface, on-line audio and video reminders on the content and application support from the maestro himself…Carl Pritchard. The coaching is conducted at times decided upon by the client!

Objectives

Upon completion, participants will be able to:

  • Upon completion of this program, participants will have the information necessary to pass the PMP® exam.

Notes: Carl Pritchard is the author of The Project Management Drill Book, ESI International, 2004. PMI®, PMBOK® Guide, PMP®, PMI-RMP® are all registered trademarks of the Project Management Institute of Newtown Square, Pennsylvania

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Carl Pritchard PRESENTS!! – (Public Speaking Engagements)

Course Duration: 1-2 Hours

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If you’ve never been in a Carl Pritchard training, you haven’t seen how fun training can be!  Join us at Chapter meetings of the Project Management Institute, of other associations or at publicly sponsored webinars.  It’s an hour or two that you’ll never forget!

Objectives

Upon completion, participants will be able to:

Upon completion:

Participants will walk away with value-added insights on how to be better at their craft.

Notes: Click the links to see what Carl's talking about next!

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Essentials of Project Management

Course Duration: 1,2, or 3 Day(s)

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Sometimes the basics aren’t all that basic. That’s often the feeling with project management. In this fast-paced two-day excursion through basic project management practice, team members get a chance to explore the core elements of project management practice, including objective development, work breakdown structure construction, schedule evaluation and basics of budgeting. Through a series of fun and practical exercises, participants build the basic components of a project and learn some of the challenges typical to the project environment (and how to overcome them)!

Objectives

Upon completion, participants will be able to:

  • Recognize the critical elements of a project charter
  • Build or critique a project objective
  • Expand a project objective into a work breakdown structure
  • Network the activities into a cohesive schedule
  • Evaluate activities for their potential costs
  • Identify the critical communication activities for project implementation

Notes: Carl Pritchard is the author of How to Build a Work Breakdown Structure, ESI International, 1999.

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Communicating UP! / Presentation Skills

Course Duration: 2 Day(s)

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It’s one thing to be able to communicate effectively. It’s another entirely to be able to communicate UP! This powerful experience brings you the tools and tricks necessary to engender support in the senior echelons of any organization. It points out how to craft your message in shorter and shorter fashion and still make the point(s) you need to make. And it highlights how to get management to “preach your gospel” without pressing the point.

Objectives

Upon completion, participants will be able to:

  • Upon completion of this workshop, participants will be able to:
  • Create memorable “earwigs” and plant their message effectively with team members and management
  • Apply the messaging opportunities created by the opening 30 seconds of any encounter
  • Establish “elevator speeches” with impact

Notes: This course can be customized to a one-day version on either topic or a two-day experience on both.

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Presentation Skills

Course Duration: 1 Day

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The winning project, the winning program, the winning career are often defined by the presentation skills of the manager involved. Winning presentation skills are not defined by charisma, but by practice, audience knowledge and passion. In this one-day seminar, Carl Pritchard shares his facility with the podium and gives you the tips you need to grab and hold an audience. You’ll learn tricks about presentation preparation, audience assessment, the crucial opening seconds and an effective close-out.

Objectives

Upon completion, participants will be able to:

  • Evaluate audience needs and mirror presentation style to those needs
  • Build passion and/or empathy into the presentation
  • Open presentations with clear objectives and definition
  • Close out presentations and leave the audience wanting more
  • Build effective presentation content

Notes: Over the past 3 years, Carl Pritchard's average instructor evaluation by participants (on a 10-point scale) is over 9.6! PMI is a registered trademark of the Project Management Institute, Inc

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Earned Value

Course Duration: 1-2 Day(s)

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Earned value management systems (EVMS) are hot buzz in management circles across the country, thanks in part to the Federal push for earned value in both the Office of Management & Budget Circulars and the Federal Acquisition Regulation. This means that more and more agencies must have quality, effective earned value systems. The keys to success? A solid earned value infrastructure (WBS, cost structure, networked schedule) is everything. And now there’s also the Association for the Advancement of Cost Engineering’s Earned Value Professional (EVP) examination. Carl Pritchard brings his former EVP status to bear in presenting a comprehensive, in-depth look at how your organization can implement earned value successfully and ensure a sustainable EVMS.

Objectives

Upon completion, participants will be able to:

  • Establish a WBS that can support an earned value management system
  • Create a networked schedule that can support an EVMS
  • Establish protocols for when and how to baseline projects
  • Apply consistent claiming techniques for work accomplished
  • Generate management reports at a variety of levels, incorporating EVMS data
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Project Estimating

Course Duration: 1-2 Day(s)

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Where do estimates come from? In many organizations, the answer to that question is alarmingly elusive. In this program, Pritchard Management Associates helps derive the answer for estimates ranging from the quick “ballpark” assessment to the detailed, bottom-up analysis. This program looks at a variety of tools and techniques, and considers both the value analysis involved in selecting resources (based on productivity and availability) as well as some profitability measures, including present value and Internal Rate of Return (IRR).

Objectives

Upon completion, participants will be able to:

  • Assess estimates for their appropriate range of accuracy
  • Evaluate resource costs based on productivity and rate
  • Establish estimates based on a variety of techniques
  • Review the “hidden costs” buried within an estimate
  • Construct estimates from a work breakdown structure
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Managing Multiple Projects

Course Duration: 1-2 Day(s)

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Managing multiple projects is as much an art as it is a science. Handling multiple projects means more than just dealing with multiple schedules; it involves multiple risks, stakeholders and budgets. To expertly manage multiple projects, you need to recognize priorities and delegate wisely not an easy feat in today’s complex environment. To do that successfully, you need an extensive understanding of how risk, human resources, schedules and costs must be integrated. In this course, you’ll learn techniques for establishing priorities, identifying risks generated by the multi-project environment, sharing resources and managing your energies as a manager effectively.

Objectives

Upon completion, participants will be able to:

  • Recognize and establish project priorities
  • Assess schedule and resource conflicts to determine approaches
  • Identify and apply optimization practices across projects
  • Apply risk management on concurrent multiple projects
  • Build organizational authority by applying consistent authorization practices
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Risk Management

Course Duration: 1-4 Day(s)

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Following the Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK)® guidelines, this hands-on programs gives participants the opportunity to follow the entire risk management process: planning, identification, qualification, quantification, response development and response control. Participants will learn to integrate the risk management process with high-quality project management. They will work through a variety of risk strategies and have a clear understanding of how multiple strategies can be applied to single risks and how multiple risks may have common strategies.

Objectives

Upon completion, participants will be able to:

  • Identify risks using the WBS and several other identification tools
  • Rank risks based on qualification and quantification practice, including expected value
  • Establish organizational metrics for risk and begin the steps toward building internal risk models
  • Assess probability and impact for risk, using qualification practices
  • Assess a variety of risk strategies for their projects, selecting the optimal approaches
  • Present alternatives to management based on a thorough assessment of the risks
  • Integrate risk management with their existing project management practices.

Notes: Carl Pritchard is the editor of Risk Management: Concepts & Guidance, 5th Edition, 2013, Taylor and Francis, and a recognized authority on project risk management. PMI®, PMBOK® Guide, PMP®, PMI-RMP® are all registered trademarks of the Project Management Institute of Newtown Square, Pennsylvania

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PMI-RMP® Exam Preparation (Virtual) — Available for the CURRENT EXAM!

Course Duration: 30 Hour(s)

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A 30-Hour Virtual Experience!! Get the PDUs! Get the practice test! For under $500, you get everything you need to prepare for and KNOW you can pass the PMI-RMP(r) Risk Management Professional Certification exam. PMI-RMP is a registered trademark of the Project Management Institute.

Objectives

Upon completion, participants will be able to:

  • Know the PMI-RMP exam content
  • Get valuable practice on challenging exam questions
  • Get help from a live instructor
  • Work at your own pace

Notes: PMI(r), PMBOK(r) Guide, PMP(r), PMI-RMP(r) are all registered trademarks of the Project Management Institute of Newtown Square, Pennsylvania

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Critical Path: The Game ©

Course Duration: 1-2 Day(s)

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The schedule is one of the most challenging aspects of modern project management, and many team members don’t know where the schedules come from. When they find out, they are often frustrated by the complexities of the network diagram. In this one- or two-day experience, team members get the opportunity to learn the intricacies of critical path calculation and network development. Using Pritchard Management Associates’ acclaimed board game, they work through multiple rounds of game play, challenging themselves to achieve shorter, yet more realistic, schedules.

Objectives

Upon completion, participants will be able to:

  • Calculate network diagrams
  • Work through advanced relationships including lag, lead, FF, SS and SF
  • Identify opportunities to improve network schedules
  • Cooperate with team members to find means to share resources and mutually optimize schedules
  • Recommend and implement managerial practice to encourage “best practice” schedule management

Notes: Carl Pritchard is the game's creator and author of Precedence Diagramming: Successful Scheduling in the Team Environment, ESI International, Second Edition, 2003.

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