Description:  A project’s success is often measured by the team’s ability to deliver a defined set of outcomes on time, on budget, and on specification.  More importantly, however, is the team’s ability to successfully manage the expectations of the groups and individuals who have a vested interest in the outcome of the project.  In simpler terms, this means that the project team must effectively align the project delivery with expectations of key stakeholders.
Aligning Expectations: Effective Project Estimating and Control is a one-day training session designed to provide project team members and participants with better ways to successfully define, deliver, and control the schedule and cost factors of a project with more precision. 

Course objectives:  Participants will learn how to:
   - Better identify and articulate elements of a project that represent components of project costs
   - Effectively estimate project timelines and costs with greater precision and accuracy using proven cost estimating techniques
   - Account for uncertain (“known unknowns” and “unknown unknowns”) when formulating a project schedule and budget
   - Establish cost performance measurement baselines for the project
   - Improve the team’s ability to track, communicate, and report progress associated with scope, schedule, and costs

Earn:  8 PDUs!

Instructor:   Christopher J. Wright, MPM, PMP
Instructor Bio.  Chris is the President & Managing Principal of Tanden LLC and Senior Instructor - Project Management and Leadership.  He is a certified Program/Project Management Professional (PMP) with over fourteen (14) years of Project Management and Organizational Leadership experience in a wide-array of industries. He is also the architect and lead facilitator for Elon University's Executive Education - Project Management program. His primary focus is on the education and integration of best practices in project management discipline for organizations that want to plan and execute their priority initiatives more successfully. His strengths and proven expertise are in the following areas:

   - Project Management Office (PMO)
   - Strategic Plan - Project Portfolio Alignment
   - Project Management and Leadership Training
   - Project Team Development, Coaching, and Mentoring
   - Process Improvement and Refinement
   - Team Meeting / Workshop Facilitation

He has a Masters degree in Project Management (MPM) from Western Carolina University and a degree in Economics and Spanish from Georgia Southern University. As VP Education of the NC Chapter of PMI, he helped develop the PMP training program and curriculum that is still in use today by that chapter. He is also author of the Launch into PM course and many other project management courses and workshops.

Date:  February 20, 2010
Time:   8:00am -  5:00pm

Location:  Global Knowledge Training Center,  600 Galleria Pkwy, Suite 700,  Atlanta, GA 30339

Registration Fee:

     $185 --PMI Atlanta Member (discount rate)
     $210 --Non-member (standard rate)

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* For information about this event contact the VP of Certification & Education at certed@pmiatlanta.org.