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Continuing Studies

Beyond the Basics of Project Management: Managing Risks, Resources, and Post Project Reviews

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Summary

This class is one full day and two half days, offered in a highly participatory, live-online format.

This class is open to anyone interested in the topic who has already taken the Fundamentals of Project Management class or who already has a foundation knowledge of project management. This is also a required part of the Project Management Certificate.

Get more information on the PM Certificate.

Advance your project management skills by diving deep into some of the critical components of managing a project. Building teams and helping them perform effectively has dividends for both the project and the organization. Effective resource management is a critical piece of project budget management and plays a role in enterprise-level resource optimization. Making sure that there is a comprehensive risk register that's appropriately weighted allows for better control of the impacts on a project's progress and creates a higher margin of safety leading to greater confidence in the delivery plan. Capturing lessons learned in a disciplined manner through post-implementation reviews helps an organization build a knowledge base of best practices that enhances its execution capabilities and improves the probability of ongoing success. Going beyond the basics of project management creates a culture of learning, accountability, transparency, high performance and successful delivery.

Overview

Learning Objectives

  1. Plan for, acquire, develop and manage project teams with appropriate roles and responsibilities.
  2. Outline how a wide range of resources should be anticipated, located, monitored and managed, including external contractors.
  3. Develop a robust Risk Management plan by identifying negative as well as positive risks, and doing a thorough qualitative and quantitative analysis, to monitor and control the risks to stabilize the project’s risk profile then proactively.
  4. Enable continuous improvement of the project management practice within the organization through disciplined and methodical post-project reviews.

Earn Continuing Education Hours

By participating in this class you will earn:

Instructional Hours 12
University of Wisconsin Continuing Education Units 1.2

Explanation of Continuing Education Hours

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Program Questions?

Contact Brittany Browning at brittany.browning@wisc.edu or 608-265-7939

Registration Questions?

Email registrations@pyle.wisc.edu or call 608-262-2451.

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Meet your instructor

Jim Padley

(PMP, MBA) has spent 20 yrs. as a certified project manager and currently works as an IT Director within the School of Medicine and Public Health.  He has been a consultant, employee, vendor, and contractor for both public and private sector businesses.  He has experience implementing both large scale infrastructure projects, packaged implementations, and large and small-scale software development (Agile, Iterative, and Waterfall).