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CRIT organizes an inter-company training course on the theme “Project Management as a lever for innovative change“, with the collaboration of Bushido Consulting and Assirep (Italian Association of Project Managers and Experts).

Course content

The course will last 16 hours (2 8-hour days) and will take place on Tuesday 28th and Wednesday 29th June at the CRIT headquarters The following topics will be covered during the sessions:

• Context knowledge
• Technical / methodological knowledge
• Project time management
• Project cost management
• Risk management and project opportunities
• Project resource management
• Documentation and reporting management
• Evaluation of progress

The Course is preparatory to ISIPM – Basic Certification. The certification assumes significant importance following the approval of the law 4/2013, concerning the “Provisions concerning unorganized professions”.

Professors

Dr. Eugenio Rambaldi – President of Assirep (Italian Association of Project Managers).

Classes will be held from 9.00 to 18.00 at the CRIT headquarters on the following dates:

• Tuesday, June 28th
• Wednesday, June 29th

Course program

FIRST DAY – Tuesday 28 June from 9.00 to 18.00 Knowledge of context and technical / methodological knowledge

1. Background knowledge

• Project and Project Management
• Program and Portfolio Management
• Project success criteria
• Project strategies, requirements and objectives
• Evaluation of the project
• Systemic approach and integration
• Context and stakeholders
• Who they are and what role they have
• The sponsor
• The Project Manager and his Team
• Project Stakeholders
• The role of the Project Manager
• Project phases (life cycle)
• The product life cycle vs the project management life cycle
• Role of the project manager in the management of different life cycles
• Project management processes: Start-up, Planning, Execution, Control, Closure (close-out)
• Notes on international and national project manager certifications

2. Technical / methodological knowledge

• Project hierarchical structures
• Techniques of description, breakdown and coding of work, responsibilities, product, etc.
• The WBS, the OBS, the PBS
• The responsibility matrix
• Project scope management and deliverables
• The Project Charter
• The goal setting is the WBS

SECOND DAY – Wednesday 29th June from 9.00 to 18.00 Project Management

1. Project time management

• Define the check list of activities
• Estimate the duration of an activity
• The realization sequence of the project activities (logical lattices)
• Time scheduling techniques and algorithms (Pert, Cpm)
• The project Gantt and the critical path
• Optimization of project times (Fast Tracking and Crashing)
• The definition of the baseline of the times

2. Project cost management

• Types of project costs (direct, indirect, fixed, variable costs)
• Choice of the appropriate level of cost allocation
• Calculation of the project budget
• Time allocation of costs and definition of the “S” curve (BCWS)
• The cost baseline

3. Risk management and project opportunities

4. Management of project resources

• Assignment of resources to the project (staffing) and calculation of workloads
• Resource leveling

5. Management of documentation and reporting

6. Evaluation of progress

• Difference between “monitoring” and “control”
• Advance times and rescheduling to finish
• Monitoring and control of resources
• Cost control and economic performance analysis
• The Earned Value Method and its use in redefining the budget to finish
• Performance indexes and managerial dashboards