With Your First Cup Of Coffee, Do The Project Status Reports Reveal

  • A performance management system driving continuous improvement for reducing costs and identifying opportunities to enhance efficiency and effectiveness
  • Project teams demonstrating a high level of technical competency

  • A systematic approach for identifying, prioritizing and addressing risk

Project Management Improvement and Accountability Act (PMIAA) Competency Training

Based on the PMI Project Management Body of Knowledge Guide© (PMBoK) and competencies developed by the Department of Defense (DoD) and Office of Federal Procurement Policy (OFPP). This course addresses all of the technical competencies listed in the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Competency Memorandum for Chief Executive Officers (CXO) Councils. Participants completing this course will be knowledgeable of how the technical competencies may be applied in better decision-making focused on meeting mission requirements.
Subjects Covered Include:

Technical Competencies

  • Acquisition Strategy
  • Business Process Reengineering
  • Capital Planning and Investment Assessment
  • Change Management
  • Compliance
  • Contracting/Procurement
  • Cost-Benefit Analysis
  • Financial Analysis
  • Financial Analysis
  • Financial Management
  • Knowledge Management
  • Performance Measurement
  • Program Management
  • Quality Management

  • Course Length: 32 hours

  • Target Audience: Managers supervisors, and key staff participating in initiating, planning, executing, monitoring and controlling and closing projects essential to accomplishing organization strategic objectives.

PMI Standard Guide Courses

These presentations provide targeted competencies designed to prepare organizations to establish a culture based on successfully completing projects.

01.

Organizational Project Management

Participants completing this course will understand the foundational concepts for establishing a project based culture. Organizational project management (OPM) is the framework used to align project, program, and portfolio management practices with organizational strategy and objectives, and fitting these practices within the organization’s situation. The course uses PMI’s Standard for Organizational Project Management (OPM) as the source guidance. It spans the value delivery landscape and can be used with all approaches to project delivery—including waterfall, agile, hybrid and next practices (those future approaches yet to be determined).

  • Course Length: 16 hours

  • Target Audience: Managers and Supervisors, project management office staff, and practitioners involved in establishing policies, practices and controls for a project based culture for performance and improvement.

  • Materials Included: Each participant is provided a copy of PMI’s Standard for Organizational Project Management (OPM) and course slides for notes.

02.

Agile Practice

Participants completing this course will understand the various tools, situational guidelines and the various agile approaches available to enable better results. Based on PMI’s Agile Practice Guide, material covered includes:

  • An Introduction to Agile describes the Agile Manifesto mindset, values and principles. It also covers the concepts of definable and high-uncertainty work, and the correlation between lean, the Kanban Method and agile approaches.

  • Life Cycle Selection introduces the various life cycles discussed in the practice guide and covers suitability filters, tailoring guidelines and common combinations of approaches.

  • Implementing Agile: Creating an Agile Environment talks about critical factors to consider when creating an agile environment such as servant leadership and team composition.

  • Organizational Considerations for Project Agility explores organizational factors that impact the use of agile practices, such as culture, readiness, business practices and the role of a project management office (PMO).

  • Course Length: 16 hours

  • Target Audience: Managers and Supervisors, project management office staff, and practitioners involved in establishing policies, practices and controls for an Agile practice as part of a project based culture for performance and improvement.

  • Materials Included:Each participant is provided a copy of PMI’s Agile Practice Guide and course slides for notes.

03.

Project Scheduling

Participants completing this course will be exposed to the latest thinking regarding good and accepted practices in the area of scheduling for a project. The course is based on PMI’s The Practice Standard for Scheduling – Third Edition. Presentations focus on the elements of a good schedule model, its purpose, use, and benefits. Participants will also discover what is required to produce and maintain a good schedule model.

  • Course Length: 16 hours

  • Target Audience: Managers and Supervisors, project management office staff, and practitioners involved in establishing creating and managing project schedules.

  • Materials Included: Each participant is provided a copy of PMI’s The Practice Standard for Scheduling – Third Edition and course slides for notes.

04.

Benefits Realization Management

Participants completing this course will understand how benefits realization is the common thread running from organizational strategy through project deliverables for producing benefits. Research reveals Benefits Realization Management (BRM) practices are not clearly understood, and not used effectively in the management of portfolios, programs and projects. The course outlines how BRM may be integrated across all types of delivery approaches, tailored into an appropriate practice within portfolio, program and project management.

  • Course Length: 16 hours

  • Target Audience: Managers and Supervisors, project management office staff, and practitioners involved in driving more successful outcomes and better strategic alignment within the organization.

  • Materials Included: Each participant is provided a copy of PMI’s Benefit Realization Management: A Practice Guide, and course slides for notes.

05.

Risk Management

Participants completing this course will understand how risk management addresses the fact certain events or conditions—whether expected or unforeseeable during the planning process—may occur with impacts on portfolio, program, and project objectives. These impacts can be positive or negative and may cause deviation from the intended objectives. Risk management processes allow for proactively planning to capture opportunities and limit threats. Key concepts addressed include:

  • Identifying the core principles for risk management;
  • Describing the fundamentals of risk management and the environment within which it is carried out;
  • Defining the risk management life cycle; and
  • Applying risk management principles to the portfolio, program, and project domains within the context of an enterprise risk management approach.

  • Course Length: 16 hours

  • Target Audience: Managers and Supervisors, project management office staff, and project/program/portfolio managers involved in developing policies and procedures for implementing effective risk management for an organization.

  • Materials Included:Each participant is provided a copy of PMI’s Standard for Risk Management in Portfolios, Programs and Projects, along with templates and course slides for notes.

06.

Change Management

Participants completing this course will be introduced to rigorous change management approaches in concert with standardized portfolio, program, and project management approaches designed to achieve higher success rates in effecting change.
Organizational change projects are the fourth most common type of project undertaken, but only 20 percent of organizations adopt a formal organizational change management practice.

Topics include:

  • Identify and account for change elements within a project or program plan
  • Create clear and powerful strategies to guide organizational development, and
  • Execute those strategies reliably and effectively.

  • Course Length: 16 hours

  • Target Audience: Managers and Supervisors, project management office staff, and project/program/portfolio managers involved in developing policies and procedures for managing change as part of project/program management in the organization.

  • Materials Included:Each participant is provided a copy of PMI’s Managing Change in Organizations: A Practice Guide, along with templates and course slides for notes.

PMI Authorized Project Management Professional© (PMP) Exam Preparation Course

The world’s leading project management certification, enabling organizations to foster project managers who get results. This course prepares experienced practitioners, who meet PMP application qualifications , to succeed in attaining PMP certification. The PMP Certification may be used as evidence a person has the competencies needed to perform project management work as outlined in Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Interpretive Guidance for Project Manager Positions (May 2019)

Aptum Strategies guarantees qualified participants will attain PMP certification.

  • Course Length: 32 hours

  • Target Audience: Managers and Supervisors with the requisite qualifications, requiring credentials commensurate with their positions identifying them as the subject matter experts in project management.