Training
"We believe that all strategic and tactical objectives
can be distilled into specific, defined projects
that must be flawlessly executed for a company to thrive."
Would you like to gain a competitive edge in today's marketplace? Properly trained personnel and robust management
practices can deliver this edge. Professionals trained in project management techniques
can increase your company's efficiency and allow you to realize returns
on your investments much more quickly. Our clients can opt to have their employees trained
at our facilities, their own facilities or via an alternative method
such as CBI.
Our training provides you with the most important elements of project
management. You will learn how to create and manage project
scope, scheduling, budgets, resources and time
constraints using proven methods and techniques to give your company
a significant competitive advantage. The North Star Group training programs increase your
employee’s productivity and improve your organization’s
ability to reduce costs, accelerate revenue and increase profitability.
Individual training courses or complete curriculums are available. All
of our courses can be customized to fit your organization's unique
goals, culture and timelines. Our training professionals will work
with you to determine the scope, content, delivery method, and scheduling
to best meet your needs while maximizing the value of your training
dollars. Each of our instructors has been carefully selected,
according to their proven teaching and communications skills, material
knowledge and expertise in the field. These highly effective
instructors, combined with our leading-edge courseware provide you
a winning combination.
Course Listing
Duration: 1 Day
Target Audience: PMO Managers and Project Managers
Course Objective: Participants will gain an overview
of a Project Manager’s role in the project and a basic understanding
of the project management phases.
Specific Learning Goals:
- Define the term project management
- Define the organizational structures for project management
- Define and discuss the phases of the project life cycle
- Define the activities associated with each phase of the project
life cycle
- Define the roles and responsibilities of a Project Manager
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Duration: 2 Days
Target Audience: Project Managers and Project
Team Members
Course Objective: Participants will learn each
phase of the project lifecycle.
Specific Learning Goals:
- Project initiation analysis
- Develop a project charter
- Project prioritization
- Develop a project plan
- Manage a project
- Manage a team
- Performance monitoring
- Use of Earned Value Method
- Lessons learned
- Project closure
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Duration: 1 Day
Target Audience: Project Managers and Project
Team Members
Course Objective: Participants will learn the
Project Manager’s role in managing and controlling the project
schedule and use of schedule tools.
Specific Learning Goals:
- Critical path method
- PERT methodology
- Network diagramming
- Gantt charts
- Activity identification
- Work Breakdown Structure
- Estimate activity durations
- Set up project dependencies and constraints
- Apply scheduling methodology
- Schedule analysis
- Schedule control
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Duration: 1 Day
Target Audience: Project Managers and Project
Team Members
Course Objective: Participants will learn how
to develop, manage and control the project’s budget.
Specific Learning Goals:
- Cost estimating and forecasting
- Cost budgeting
- Baselining
- Cost control
- Earned value management (EVM)
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Duration: 1 Day
Target Audience: Project Managers
Course Objective: Participants will acquire knowledge
of leadership techniques that will enhance the individual’s
and project’s chance of success.
Specific Learning Goals:
- Define team leadership
- Identify individual strengths and weaknesses
- Build team-leadership requirements
- Becoming an effective leader
- Developing and motivating people
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Duration: 1 Day
Target Audience: Project Managers and Project
Team Members
Course Objective: Participants will learn the
key to communicating with all levels of an organization.
Specific Learning Goals:
- Avoid failure due to lack of communication
- Communication model
- Conflict management
- Active Listening
- Basic presentation skills
- Negotiating skills
- How to run an effective meeting
- Management-by-walk-around techniques
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Duration: 1 Day
Target Audience: Project Managers and Project
Team Members
Course Objective: Participants will learn the
issues involved in managing and participating on a successful project
team.
Specific Learning Goals:
- Identify the different types of teams
- Identify the characteristics of an effective team
- Identify the different roles in a team
- Motivating your team
- Behavioral issues in a team environment
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Duration: 1 Day
Target Audience: Project Managers and Project
Team Members
Course Objective: Participants will learn the
methods and importance of managing and controlling project risk.
Specific Learning Goals:
- Risk management theory
- Identification and management of risk
- Risk planning
- Risk analysis
- Risk mitigation and control
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Duration: 4 Days
Target Audience: Project Managers
Course Objective: Participants will learn intermediate
to advanced management techniques for each phase
of the project lifecycle.
Specific Learning Goals:
- Project initiation analysis
- Developing a project charter
- Project prioritization
- Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
- Developing a schedule
- Developing a budget
- Developing a project plan
- Managing a project
- Status reporting
- Managing a team
- Tracking project progress
- Managing project cost
- Managing project schedule
- Managing project risk
- Managing project scope
- Managing project quality
- Performance monitoring
- Using Earned Value Method
- Lessons learned
- Project closure
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Duration: 2 Days
Target Audience: Project Managers and Project
Team Members
Course Objective: Participants will gain an advanced
working knowledge of using Microsoft Project.
Students will learn how to use Microsoft Project
and apply what they have learned in a hands-on environment.
Specific Learning Goals:
- Identify the critical parts of a project
- Understand project management terms and concepts
- Open, modify and save a project file
- Change views and modify a project schedule
- Adjust the Gantt Chart timescale
- Create headers and footers for printing
- Preview and print views and reports
- Create a summary activity
- Indent activities
- Hide and show sub activities in the outline
- Create a new project file and enter project properties information
- Enter activities and durations to create an activities list
- Arrange the activity list and specify activity dependencies
- Format the Gantt Chart to display the critical path
- Create a list of resources
- Assign resource to activities
- Learn how to integrate Microsoft Project
into your corporate structure
- Identify new ways to obtain and share project information
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Duration: 1 Day
Target Audience: Project Managers and Project
Team Members
Course Objective: Participants will learn the
basics of coaching others.
Specific Learning Goals:
- Role of the supervisor
- Managing non-reporting people
- Communication model
- Active Listening
- Motivation
- Effective Performance improvement
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Duration: 1 Day
Target Audience: Project Managers and Project
Team Members
Course Objective: Participants will learn how
to use checklists to monitor project progress.
Specific Learning Goals:
- Project phases
- Activities associated with each phase of the project life cycle
- Develop a project plan
- Track project progress
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Duration: 1 Day
Target Audience: Project Managers and Project
Team Members
Course Objective: Participants will learn how
to use readiness reviews to control project progress.
Specific Learning Goals:
- Project phases
- Activities associated with each phase of the project life cycle
- Basic presentation skills
- How to run an effective meeting
- Transition from production to support
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Duration: 2 Days
Target Audience: Individuals meeting PMI training
requirements wanting to prepare to take the PMP certification exam
Course Objective: Participants will review all
material covered in the Project Management Body
of Knowledge (PMBOK). Review and discuss practice
test questions for a comprehensive understanding
of what to expect when taking the PMP Exam.
Specific Learning Goals:
- Scope
- Time
- Risk
- Cost
- Contract
- Quality
- Human resources
- Communication
- Integration
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Duration: 1 Day
Target Audience: Executives and PMO Managers
Course Objective: Participants will learn the
essentials of strategic planning.
Specific Learning Goals:
- Identifying strategic objectives
- Translating strategic objectives into tactical plans
- Balancing objectives with resource constraints
- Use of Key Performance Indicators
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Duration: 1 Day
Target Audience: Executives and PMO Managers
Course Objective: Participants will learn the
value of project management and the correct process for Project Management
Office stand up.
Specific Learning Goals:
- What is project management
- Obtaining executive buy-in
- The right way to perform project management
- The process of evaluating project management maturity
- Set up a successful PMO
- Define PMO roles and responsibilities
- Manage your project portfolio
- Link project progress to strategic objectives
- Sustain the PMO value
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Duration: 3 Days
Target Audience: PMO Managers and Project Managers
Course Objective: Participants will gain a working
knowledge of using Microsoft Project Server to manage multiple projects.
Specific Learning Goals:
- Standardize projects in the Enterprise environment
- Manage enterprise resources
- Manage project portfolios
- Manage multiple projects using the Project portfolio
- Multiple project reporting
- Document management and collaboration
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Recommended Curriculums:
| Course # |
Course Name |
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| 101 |
Project Management Overview |
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| 102 |
Project Management Fundamentals - Basic Course |
x |
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x |
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| 103 |
Developing a Schedule |
x |
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x |
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| 104 |
Developing a Budget |
x |
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x |
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| 105 |
Leadership Skills |
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x |
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| 106 |
Effective Communication |
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x |
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| 107 |
Team Dynamics |
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x |
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| 108 |
Risk Management |
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x |
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x |
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| 201 |
Project Management Fundamentals - Advanced Course |
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x |
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| 202 |
Microsoft Project Scheduling |
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x |
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| 203 |
Coaching Workshop |
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x |
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| 204 |
Best Practices - A Checklist Approach |
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x |
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x |
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| 205 |
Planning & Conducting Readiness Reviews: A Gate Keeping Approach |
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x |
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x |
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| 301 |
Preparing for the PIVP Exam |
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| 302 |
Strategic Planning |
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x |
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x |
| 302 |
Establish a Project Management Office |
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x |
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x |
| 302 |
Microsoft Project Server - Implementing Enterprise Portfolio Management |
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x |
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x |
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