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

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

• Identify potential problems and avoid it 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

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.

• 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 

A variety of methodologies will be used during the course that includes:

• ​(30%) Based on Case Studies
• (30%) Techniques 
• (30%) Role Play
• (10%) Concepts
• Pre-test and Post-test
• Variety of Learning Methods
• Lectures
• Case Studies and Self Questionaires
• Group Work
• Discussion
• Presentation

This rate includes participant’s manual, Hand-Outs, buffet lunch, coffee/tea on arrival, morning & afternoon of each day.

Daily Course Timings:

    08:00 - 08:20       Morning Coffee / Tea

    08:20 - 10:00       First Session

    10:00 - 10:20       Coffee / Tea / Snacks

    10:20 - 12:20       Second Session

    12:20 - 13:30       Lunch Break & Prayer Break

    13:30 - 15:00       Last Session