Course DescriptionThe discipline of project management has been around since early civilisations. Although it did not take the same name, project managers did what they had to do to build pyramids, towers, castles and produced “deliverables”. |
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Course Description
The discipline of project management has been around since early civilisations. Although it did not take the same name, project managers did what they had to do to build pyramids, towers, castles and produced “deliverables”.
This course provides an overview of the discipline of project management to individuals who are seeking to widen the horizons of their knowledge, and learn what it takes to manage projects: a rewarding career and a rich experience.
This course is a first step and a foundation in project management for individuals who would like considering a career change in managing projects.
On Day 1: Overview of project management
On Day 2: Learning by doing
All materials taught are compliant with the guidelines established in “A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge, PMBOK®” 5th Edition, from the Project Management Institute (PMI).
Main Topics
Day 1
- Introduction to project management
- Process from project initiation to completion
- Putting bits and pieces to develop project plans: planning, scheduling and budgeting
- Looking for and managing risks
Day 2
- Project and team case studies
- Key project documents
- Group discussions
- Presentations
Learning Objectives
- Learn project management lingo
- Learn about the general process for managing projects from beginning to end
- Gain exposure to main project documents used in project execution and delivery
- Gain exposure to planning and scheduling concepts
- Get to adapt the tools to suite own work needs
Perfection is a fallacy that leads to over planning, procrastination and failure to ship; agile is about focusing on delivering the best thing possible in a set time period.
Key Details
Trainer: Osama A.Wahid
Start Date: 6/11/2016
End Date: 7/11/2016
Timings: 8:30AM - 1:30PM
No. of Hours: 10
PDUs: 10
Fees: BD 150/-
Trainer
Osama A.Wahid, B.Eng. MPM PMP
Mr. Osama A.Wahid is a Canadian avid project management practitioner with more than 15 years of experience across multiple industries and projects including high profile mixed-use Real-Estate Development projects (Mag-Lev train project), Government Health Policies and training projects, Railroad Projects and construction management projects.
He has extensive experience in initiating, planning and executing projects with special focus on getting the scope right and scaling the project management tools to the project’s size and needs.
Over the course of his career, Mr. Osama has held several positions where he continued to be involved in technical project management and operational planning and problem solving. He filled several positions that required thinking out-of-the-box and delivering project solutions that had set a bench-mark for quality delivery in the organisation where he worked.
He received several recognition awards and continues to promote project management best practices to organisations and project teams.
He discovered that he had a passion for training when one of the challenges that he was faced with was to develop a comprehensive training programme for pharmaceutical scientific experts with an extremely limited budget. This is when he led the design, development and delivery of a training programme that was successfully delivered to almost 150 participants.
Mr. Osama speaks, reads and writes Arabic, English and French and he received his Masters of Project Management from the Université du Québec en Outaouais in 2004 and attained his certification as a Project Management Professional in 2006.
Trainer
Osama A.Wahid, B.Eng. MPM PMP
Mr. Osama A.Wahid is a Canadian avid project management practitioner with more than 15 years of experience across multiple industries and projects including high profile mixed-use Real-Estate Development projects (Mag-Lev train project), Government Health Policies and training projects, Railroad Projects and construction management projects.
He has extensive experience in initiating, planning and executing projects with special focus on getting the scope right and scaling the project management tools to the project’s size and needs.
Over the course of his career, Mr. Osama has held several positions where he continued to be involved in technical project management and operational planning and problem solving. He filled several positions that required thinking out-of-the-box and delivering project solutions that had set a bench-mark for quality delivery in the organisation where he worked.
He received several recognition awards and continues to promote project management best practices to organisations and project teams.
He discovered that he had a passion for training when one of the challenges that he was faced with was to develop a comprehensive training programme for pharmaceutical scientific experts with an extremely limited budget. This is when he led the design, development and delivery of a training programme that was successfully delivered to almost 150 participants.
Mr. Osama speaks, reads and writes Arabic, English and French and he received his Masters of Project Management from the Université du Québec en Outaouais in 2004 and attained his certification as a Project Management Professional in 2006.
