Business Innovation Research Center
Presents a Certified Workshop on
Project Management
Date: November 2013
Time: 8:00 am - 5:00pm
Location: ATMC, Fallriver
Available seats: 25
Admission: $200 (Includes course material, Coffee, and Lunch)
Abstract: Projects have become a primary form of delivering change/improvement in organizations. Successful project outcomes need a good project planning process in addition to a sound execution process. This one-day workshop is designed to provide an overview of the fundamentals of project management using intensive team-based activities to support learning by doing. This workshop aims to focus on how to develop good project plans and strategies in project execution process with the help of user-friendly and ready to use project management templates. 
Lead Faculty
Professor Yuzhu Li
Prof. Li is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Decision & Information Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. She is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP®). Her area of expertise includes teamwork in projects, coordination within single project team and among multiple projects, and team flexibility. Her work has been published in multiple peer-reviewed journals including International Journal of Project Management, Journal of Systems and Software, and Information and Management, etc.
Dr. Bharatendra Rai
Dr. Rai is a faculty member at the Charlton College of Business and has over ten years of consulting and training experience to industries in the area of Six-Sigma, Quality Engineering, Design of Experiments, Taguchi Methods, Statistical Process Control, and ISO/QS 9000 Quality Management Systems. He has also worked with several Master Black-belts and Black-belts on six-sigma projects at Ford Motor Company.
For Further Information & Registration contact Ms. Juma Miller (j1miller@umassd.edu) X8862
Schedule
| 08:30 | Registration and Coffee |
| 09:00 | Welcome |
| 09:15 | Introduction to Project Management & Initiating Projects [What is PM; why projects fail; 5 PM process groups] |
| 10:30 | Coffee Break |
| 10:45 | Introduction to PM & Initiating projects ….continued [9 PM knowledge areas; Project stakeholders; Project charter] |
| 12:00 | Lunch |
| 01:00 | Planning Projects [Identifying team members and defining roles/responsibilities; Work breakdown structure (WBS); Change management plan; Identifying risks and defining risk strategies] |
| 02:00 | Coffee Break |
| 02:15 | Executing/Monitoring projects [Ensuring a common understanding & setting expectations; Implementing a quality management plan; Measuring project performance; Verifying/managing changes to the project; Ensuring deliverables conform to quality standards; Monitoring project risks] |
| 03:30 | Closing Projects [Project closing outputs; Obtaining stakeholder/customer acceptance; Getting financial, legal and administrative closure; Project reports and lessons learnt] |
| 04:30 | Closing statements and Feedback |
