To qualify the students to manage communications embracing the project information environment and its influences on the successful and failure variables.
The course will also enable students to identify the types of communication, as well as their precautions and action strategies.
Training content
At the end of the course the student will be able to:
- Understand the communication process in a project
- Distinguish "data" from "information"
- Identify the different communication needs throughout the project
- Understand the different communication media
- Characterize and identify conflicts and precautions
- Develop an effective communication plan
- Scale and structure the project team focused on collaboration
- Plan, conduct and evaluate the project performance meetings
- Understand the impact of the technology information in the project communication process
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Fact sheet
- Course duration [?]
- 16 hours
- Number of participants [?]
- Minimum 20 students per class
- Target audience
- Project managers, project team members, PMO members and others stakeholders interested in the project management process.
- Requirements
- Desirable project management knowledge.
- Language(s) [?]
- Portuguese, English and Spanish
- Local
- Provided by the contractor. Worldwide attendance.
- Certification and PDU [?]
- All training participants will receive a participation certificate with 16 PMI's PDUs.
(PMI R.E.P. activity number: Macro004)
Teaching Methodology Top ↑
Macrosolutions had developed the market's most awarded dynamics, concerning the projects training.
In this course, the following dynamics will be used:
- Case studies
Ricardo Vargas throughout his career as a project manager and an expert in that area has selected a relevant set of case studies and exercises that allow the participants to associate real and fictional cases the to daily work.
All case studies are appropriate to the nature of the client and the training audience.
- Videos selection
In order to facilitate the student learning, videos that cover various parts of movies, commercials, home videos, etc. are used in the classroom environment to fix concepts and associate technical issues with the reality of work and also to introduce new concepts.
They are short videos with direct focus on specific topics, tools and cases.
- Group Work
Several studies and exercises will be proposed by the instructor in order to present a particular topic or discuss a particular approach to project management.
Throughout the training the teamwork will be encouraged and strengthened as a mean for the group to learn.
- Learning Exercises
During the training, students perform concepts retaining quick exercises. Usually the exercises are quick and direct and involve some kind of mathematical calculation.
- Find 'C'
Dynamic addressed to the communication process in large teams where the group is challenged to calculate the mathematical value of C from the information fragments distributed in the room.
Courseware
The courseware to be received by the students will consist of slides, articles and lists of exercises, and it may also contain the following special products by Ricardo Vargas:
- Book Project Management: Establishing Competitive Advantages
- Book Practical Guide to the Project Plan
- 5 Minutes PM Videocast. Practical classes with Ricardo Vargas. DVD distributed worldwide by Microsoft that celebrates the Microsoft Project 2010 launch.
Exclusive student access area
In addition to the exclusive printed material, all participants will have access to the courseware’s electronic version, to the files of exercises and to the work done in the classroom.
The access is given through the restricted site that is available and prepared by the Macrosolutions team considering each course that we provide.
This initiative is a pioneer in the educational market and also anticipates trends related to the documents’ electronic management
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Training basic program
- ‣ Course opening
- 1. The context of Communications Management
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- Defining communications management
- Rationale and the objectives of communications
- The importance of information
- The benefits and flaws of communications
- The communications process and how it supports the project
- 2. The project phases
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- The 5 project phases
- The overlapping of phases in the PMBOK
- The interference of the phases in the project communications management
- The 42 processes that constitute the PMBOK Guide – 4th Edition
- 3. The Project Communications Management processes
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- Communications planning
- Information distribution
- Performance reporting
- Manage stakeholders
- 4. Communications Plan
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- Information receivers and context
- Communications process
- Communications Plan components
- 5. Teams
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- Concept and characteristics
- The formation of a team
- The main misconceptions about the size of a team
- The phases of development and formation of a team (Tuckman)
- Team priorization exercise
- 6. Meetings
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- Meetings as an effective communications tool
- Meeting and their negative aspects
- Obstacles found by the facilitator
- Problematic people
- Preparing for a meeting
- 7. Data management; Document and Systems Integration
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- DMS – Document Management System
- DI - Document Imaging
- DM - Document Management
- COLD/ERM
- Forms Processing (OCR/ICR)
- RM - Records Management
- CM - Content Management
- ‣ Course close-out
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Supported standards and methodologies
Project Management Institute (PMI) PMBOK Guide Yes PMI Practice Standard for Estimating — PMI Practice Standard for Earned Value Management — PMI Practice Standard for Configuration Management — PMI Practice Standard for Risk Management — PMI Practice Standard for Work Breakdown Structure — PMI Practice Standard for Scheduling — PMI Standard for Portfolio Management — PMI Standard for Program Management — PMI Project Manager Development Competency Framework Yes Organizational Project Management Maturity Model (OPM3®) — UK Office of Government Commerce (OGC) PRINCE2 (Projects in Controlled Environments) Yes MSP (Managing Successful Programmes) — M_O_R (Management of Risks) — P3M3 (Portfolio, Programme, and Project Management Maturity Model) — P3O (Portfolio, Programme and Project Offices) — MoP (Management of Portfolios) — MoV (Management of Value) — Scrum Alliance Scrum Methodology Yes International Project Management Association (IPMA) ICB® IPMA Competence Baseline Yes