Creating Value | Delivering the Results

Not only will you learn Project Management, you will learn how to successfully execute and deliver your project to your customer. Whether you are building from scratch or making modifications, the ProjectManagerBlueprint will help you. If you cannot deliver the product, then nothing else matters. – J.D. Harris 

Instructor Led Training

7 Steps enable you to See and Know the direction your Project is going, and know how to control your Cost and Schedule before your next big meeting

How to Successfully Start Your Next Project and Avoid Cost Overruns and Late Deliveries

According to Chief Information Officers (CIO.com) and IT Leaders, one of the most important skills a project manager can have is to know how to execute and stay within budget and on schedule. This means that the project manager must have a process or approach that leads down a known and successful path. Every project is different. Therefore, the process must be tailored. So, what is required to stay within budget and on schedule?

You just cannot expect to deliver a product or service to a customer that is within budget and on schedule and not have a good process, requirements, and planning. You must spend some time studying and understanding specific elements of existing data before the start of the project or as soon as you are notified that you are the Project Manager. Existing data includes the Statement of Work, Project Requirements, allocation of project Human Resources, Milestone Reviews, and Test Verification. (This will help you avoid failure.) Anything less than this, you are fooling yourself, and will experience much difficulty in trying to stay within budget, on schedule, and deliver the project to your customer. In essence, tailor your process so you don’t flounder around, spin your wheels, and waste time and money.

So, what are other things you can do to ensure your success? Read the Proposal or Contract and other important documents that were used to win the job. If the core project requirements have not been created, then as the project manager, you need to find your Systems Engineer or Business Analyst and ask him/her to create the set of requirements for your project, using the documents that were submitted to win the contract. This is absolutely necessary.

Read other project and stakeholder documents. Find out what the real budget is for the project. A contract dollar value may be in the proposal; however, I would not trust this number because a percentage of that money could be allocated to profit, or the budget renegotiated. After a review of the requirements, I would break the project up into phases: administrative, configuration, preliminary design, critical design, integration, test, certification, and delivery. I would then put together a schedule if a schedule does not already exist. I would look at how many people or labor categories and subcontractors are required to execute the project, and assign a dollar value to each block of labor for each phase of the project.

Starting out, you need to know what approach you must take to make the project a success and not waste money. You need to know what must be negotiated and what is easy to accomplish without meetings and negotiations. This Project Manager Blueprint course includes multiple sessions on how to breakdown a project so you can see and understand the level of work that must be performed by you and your team. This work breakdown is essential for your success. Create a Work Breakdown Structure if you have not already done so.

The benefits of this level of planning and analysis will prevent failures and eliminate the need to lie about project readiness. This process puts reality “front and center” and you don’t need anyone telling you whether the project is ready to be executed or not. You’ll know for yourself and have a significant amount of data and confidence from the start.

The Benefits are:

• Aviod Cost Overruns that lead to the need for more money.
• Avoid Late Deliveries that may cause your company to be penalized.
• Give Stakeholders and Customer Visibility throughout the project.
• Make sure managers and directors see what you see and everyone on the same page.

 In this course you will learn:

• Insight into project implementation before you implement it.
• How to look at critical components of your project to make sure they are aligned.
• Take the Need Statement, Proposal, and Stakeholder documents and develop 12 questions.
• PMP concepts and material for the PMP Exam.
• How most projects are implemented in industry, regardless of what you are told.
• The most important documents that you need to get the project implemented
• How to execute project with a structured approach that enables you to easily see cost, schedule, and risks and when to “raise the flag” with the PMO and your team.
• The best approach to give stakeholders visibility into the project to they can have a voice and approve and enjoy what you and your team are producing.
• More….

These are questions to help you see issues or potential for clarification.

• 12  questions on Planning
• 12 question on Design
• 12 questions on Integration
• 12 question for Test
• 12 questions for Verification
• How to make sure Stakeholder Objectives are aligned with a budget that meets schedule and performance.
• Who are the real players?  Who is on your team? Where are they located? What level of commitment do they have? Where is your customer located and what level of input and presence are required by the customer?
• Examine the Basis of Estimate (BOEs) that were used to win the project and make sure that each discipline has the necessary requirements and labor to execute the Statement of Work.
• Create a Budgeting Tool if you don’t already have one.

Instructor Led Training

Learn How to Own the Project. You do not Own the Project Until You Own the Requirements.  Learn How To Take Full Ownership of Requirements. This gives you and your customer Confidence.

Learn How to Own the Project.

 Demonstrate This to Your Customer and See How They Will Develop Full Confidence in You. You will know when this has happened by the way your customer approaches you and your team.

Contrary to what you may think, you Do Not own the project until you demonstrate that you own the requirements–all of them. Think about it for a minute. It is impossible to control budget, schedule, and implementation unless you know where and how your requirements are organized, allocated, and how they will be tested. More than anything, your customer wants to know that you understand what they want you to do and what you must produce to satisfy what they have paid you or your company to do.

Understand the benefit of owning all top-level requirements across the project or program. Become the leader and spokesperson for the project. As the Lead Systems Engineer with Project Management under your belt, you are responsible for technical compliance of the project requirements and overseeing how each requirements will be implemented to achieve the solution.

Take ownership of the project and all requirements, and flow down or moved the requirements through your development process. Account for all requirements–customer provided, derived, subcontractor requirements, and orphan requirements. I highly recommend that you use a database such as DOORS–get something, even Excel–to help manage your requirements and give your customer visibility into the program.

As the Project Manager, understand what are the risks, type of risks, and what effects they have on the project, both qualitative and quantitative. Create a Risk Matrix and Risk Management Plan. Manage all risks and requirements that could potentially affect budget, schedule, and performance. Create reports for Technical Performance Measurement and Key Performance Parameters. 

Depending upon the size and scope of your project, you may need another Systems Engineer to support Project Requirements Compliance Matrix, Traceability Matrixes, Baseline Specifications, Design Specifications, Subsystem Specifications, Interface Control Documents, Hardware and Software Integration Specifications, support development of vendor or subcontractor specifications where necessary, Product Audits, Test Plans, Test Verification, and product or system deliveries.

Instructor Led Training

Learn How to Create the Process Necessary for You to be Successful. If you have a $7,000,000 project, then you need a process that will facilitate a $7,000,000 project. If you have a $350,000,000 project, then you need a process that will facilitate a $350,000,000.

There is a huge need for training that includes end-to-end structure from stakeholder relationships to test and delivery. The Project Manager Blueprint provides you with high-value training and education that you can trust and help you to deliver the desired results of you customers. 

The Project Manager Blueprint gives you a process or system that allows both simplicity and complexity whereby you can create the desired output and deliver the product on time, within budget, and to specified performance requirements. This blueprint is flexible enough to handle a $5,000,000,  $100,000,000, or $5000,000,000 projects.

Project managers must be determined to execute based on requirements, and move requirements through their build or implementation process, and modify the process when appropriate based on the size and scope of their project. One of the primary reasons why projects fail or have cost overruns is because of the lack of visibility into what must happen at the start of the project and along each phase of implementation. You just cannot get in a big hurry to get done and give the perception that the project can be complete before end of “X” date or some superficial invalid timeframe.

When managing people, you must have a process. When managing projects, you must have a process. It is possible to execute a $10,000,000 project without process; yet, it will be in an ad-hoc and chaotic manner. I highly recommend a process driven by requirements and customer needs, especially when you need to control cost, schedule, and performance. 

Learn How To Create a Process that can be Scaled for Any Project:

Project Management, Systems Engineering, Integration, and Test.

The stuff that enables Focus, Productivity, Time Management, Project Accomplishment, and will give your project management skills rocket power.

The Process and Blueprint required for any challenging project.

Get the End-to-End Product Development and System Integration Process. 

Learn How to Execute Large-Scale Projects

Technical Project Management and Systems Engineering

If you do not have a framework for execution, then we will help you create one. This is important. Understand that you need a framework by which to execute. This is the underlying concept for you to successfully execute any project that fits your business model.

Your Framework is your business unit self-concept. It’s how you do business. So, it is important.

• Program/Project Management Framework
• Project Management Requirements 
• Implementation Architecture
• Applications of Systems Engineeirng with Process and Structure
• Project Life Cycle
• Product Review and Decison Gates
• Work Breakdown Structure Medel
• Stakeholders Process
• Solution Definition Process
• Product Realization Process
• Product Implemlentation and Integration Process
• Product Verification and Validation Process
• Technical Planning Process
• Requirements Management Process
• Interface Management Process
• Risk Management Process
• Configuration Management Process

The Project Manager Blueprint teaches Project Management consistent with the Project Management Institute’s, Technical Project Management, Strategic and Business Management, and Leadership.

I will give you documents, templates, webinars, audio files, how to information, spreadsheets, calculators, ratios, my phone number, email address, and most important, you will have me and my time. 

This is the best value your money can buy and I know what I’m talking about in all the courses that I teach. 

Project Management and Systems Engineering courses are designed for entrepreneurs, consultants, IT professionals, managers, PMPs, directors, engineers, and college students. This course is not like most high-level training that last to three or five days and cost a fortune. How much do you think you can learn in three days, given all the breaks, and the instructor packing up at 5 PM to go home? This training is different. I realized that to learn how to execute and deliver projects, it takes time, and this is a lot of high-value information and in-demand skill training that you want to learn.

Sign up for this training because it is what entrepreneurs, managers, and CIOs want from leaders. What they want is your ability to execute and deliver, on time and within budget. This means that you have a responsibility for profits and losses.

In this instructor-led training, you will be taught how to produce and deliver a specific product or service output based on requirements, budget, schedule, and verification of requirements. You will receive industry related training in project execution and delivery that you can apply on your next project.

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Avoid Project Failure and Meet the Needs of CIOs, Entrepreneurs, Directors, and Technology Leaders.

Here is what you get:

Live Virtual Training Taught By Industry Experts

Project Management | Systems Engineering | Project Execution and Delivery

Introduction to Project Management + PMP Intensive Training  – $1,497; or $500/month for 3 months

Advanced Project Management + Real World Project Execution – $1,497 or $500/month for 3 months

Introduction to Systems Engineering; Multifaceted skill set for leaders and managers – $1,497or $500/month for 3 months

Advanced Systems Engineering – Design, Development, Test Verification, and System Delivery. How to manage a $100,000,000 – $500,000,000 project. $1,997; or $667/month for 3 months

How to earn $200,000 per year. Prerequisite: Project Management and Systems Engineering and 7 years of industry experience.  $1,997 or $667/month for 3 months

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