I.S.P.  

2 days

1. Learn what mistakes to avoid early in the project life cycle.
2. Properly define project scope for your project team.
3.  

• Understand client objectives
• Manage risks that threaten project success
• Define deliverables
• Create a successful project strategy
• Create master plan
• Estimate effort and cost
• Effective business cases
• Gaining project approval

1. Evaluate feasibility
2. Improve project planning skills
3. Speed project delivery with better planning
4. Acquire team building skills
5. Appreciate importance of strategy in planning
6. Build realistic schedules
7. Prepare client organizations for deployment

• Project Initiation - Lay foundations for success
• Specifications
• Requirements
• Designing innovative solutions
• Procurement Activities
• Estimating Work effort and Cost
• Building high-performance teams to fast track projects
• Managing resources over multiple projects
• Communicating to Clients and Management
• Deploying Project Management in your organization

1. Build project plans with planning software.
2. Define roles and responsibilities
3. Use plans effectively as a communication tool.
4. Track progress against the plan.
5. Manage costs against budget
6. Analyze workloads

• Plan to succeed with Project Management
• Create detailed plan for next phase with team planning sessions Schedule tasks with critical path scheduling
• Define resources with shared resource pool
• Assign resources to tasks
• Level resource workload
• Manage activity completion

3 days

1. Standardize resource definitions with enterprise resource pool
2. Centralize project data for reporting and security
3. Protect project data
4. Share project data over the internet
5. Reduce overhead to manage custom  objects especially custom fields.
6. Capture timesheets from team.
7. Manage resource workloads.

• Installing Project server
• Managing enterprise features with Web Access
• Setup OLAP Analysis process
• Database tables in Project Server
• Define resources in Enterprise resource pool. Build project plans with Project Professional
• Allocate resources to projects with Resource Manager
• Manage updates from web clients
• Analyze resource usage with Portfolio Manager
• Manage project issues with Sharepoint

3 days

1. Improve customer satisfaction
2. Design innovative products
3. Speed business processes
4. Reduce process costs
5. Empower employees

• Understand the reengineering methodology
• Mobilize organization for reengineering
• Build high-performance teams
• Launch the BPR project
• Map business processes
• Generate innovative alternatives
• Design improved business processes
• Develop reengineered systems

1. Support Business enterprise effectively
2. Build flexible database designs
3. Simplify data architectures
4. Avoid data design tragedies
5. Create re-usable data structures
6. Reduce cost of building software.
7. Reduce time to build software.

• Model business enterprise
• Define information requirements with data analysis
• Catalog data objects with repository
• Create Entity relationship model
• Normalize data structures
• Generalize subtypes to super types 
• Map object oriented systems onto relational databases
• Analyze object life cycles
• Generalize Events and transition tables
• Define generalized, application-independent, re-usable data structures
• Financial database design
• Data element design
• Reduce database size with common code file.
• Create relational databases

1-2 days

1. Build high-performance teams to fast track projects.
2. Communicate more clearly with clients, team and management.
3. Speed JAD sessions with Turbo brainstorming.
4. Design better products - Harness your teams ideas and creativity.
5. Reduce wasted time in meetings by 60%.
6. Solve problems faster.
7. Generate creative solutions to challenges.

• Process Ideas - where brainstorming fits in.
• Turbo brainstorming process.
• Facilitating brainstorming sessions.
• Concurrent brainstorming.
• Brainstorm a single topic.
• Impact Analysis.
• Brainstorming patterns.
• Solving problems.

1. Define client requirements as a foundation for design, development, change management, testing and success.
2. Increase client commitment
3. Reduce specification effort
4. Speed systems analysis
5. Analyze alternative proposals
6. Generate feedback 
7. Lay foundations for deployment

• Introduce requirements definition methodology
• Conduct system feasibility study
• Clarify client objectives
• Document system requirements with JAD sessions
• Specify system components
• Reengineer the business system
• Design support information system
• Implement new system

1. Share information over the web
2. Create personal web page
3. Post the web page to a host server
4. Enhance your web page with styles
5. Collect feed back from visitors

• Design personal web page
• Markup web page content
• Organize web page with lists and tables
• Format web page with style sheets
• Capture data from visitors with forms