Project Management methods and tools.

Project Management training and consulting
Initiate projects	Plan projects	Estimate effort and cost	Build high-performance teams	Manage project execution	Communicate Progress

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Plan to succeed with project management. Planning reduces future uncertainty. Plans communicate a vision of how to meet objectives. During planning, the project manager thinks through the sequence of work packages to produce the results to help clients reach objectives.

Planning reduces schedule time and cost while improving quality, reliability and performance. Planning provides the opportunity to select superior alternatives. Planning improves project team organization and reduces the waste of resources.

We provide methods and tools for project managers to accelerate their projects.

I.S.P. Project Management methods and tools
Initiate projects - lay foundations for project success	Project conception Conduct feasibility study Define client objectives Analyze risks that threaten project success Define deliverables and scope Develop strategy Estimate effort and cost Prepare master schedule and budget Analyze costs and benefits Presenting proposals and business cases Startup project phase
Plan project phases	Define deliverables and scope Develop strategies Estimate effort and cost Develop schedule Resource planning
Build high-performance teams	Build high-performance teams to fast track projects Expedite team interaction with turbo brainstorming Mobilize project team Kickoff project with team- building session Prepare project team Assign clear Responsibilities Build teams with joint-problem solving Expedite meetings with turbo brainstorming
Define client requirements	Manage requirements definition Produce requirements specifications Reengineer business processes Collect user requirements Define information requirements Define performance and operational requirements Specify components
Manage Design phases to design innovative solutions to meet client needs	Allocate design resources Solve problems openly Create solutions to solve problems Borrow solutions with competitive benchmarking Generate solutions with breakthrough thinking Evaluate new technologies with prototypes Integrate design decisions
Project Management Activities	Plan projects Define client needs Design Architecture Negotiate contracts Procure services and materials Detailed Engineering design Procure services and materials Construction solutions Acceptance testing Deployment at client site Operation Support Maintenance Decommissioning Track and report project Progress Report progress to clients and management

Manage project execution	Perform project work Assure project quality Expedite project tasks
Project management Roles and Responsibilities	Sponsor Champion Stakeholders Project management office Project Manager Project Assistant Subject-matter experts Business Analyst Architect Designer Developer Engineers Facilitator Quality assurance Resource manager Supplier Technical writers Trades Trainers
ISP offers a wide variety of in house Training courses to clients Project Management Microsoft Project Business Process Improvement Information Engineering Systems Analysis	About Brian Mullen, M.Sc., president of I.S.P. information systems planning corp.

ISP ensures project success through proven methods and tools. We learn from the best practices of leading organizations and continuously improve of methods. Training introduces these strategies to an organization. Coaching speeds their adoption. Brainstorming stimulates thinking and unlocks people’s creativity throughout all project phases and activities.

Planning tools like Microsoft Project help capture, manage and communicate decisions associated with project management.

Concurrent documentation supports communication and helps decisions stick. The ISP project management course materials now include a thousand pages of course material.

ISP offers a wide variety of in-house training courses to clients. The most popular are Project Management and Microsoft Project. You can see a detailed agenda for each course by clicking on the course name in the table below:

I.S.P. training and courses
Course Name	Course Learning objectives	Course Contents
Project Management 8 day program at University of B.C. 2 to 6 days	Evaluate feasibility Improve project planning skills Speed project delivery with better planning Acquire team building skills Appreciate importance of strategy in planning Build realistic schedules 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
Microsoft Project	Build project plans with planning software. Define roles and responsibilities Use plans effectively as a communication tool. Track progress against the plan. Manage costs against budget 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
Microsoft Project Server with Web Access	Standardize resource definitions with enterprise resource pool Centralize project data for reporting and security Protect project data Share project data over the internet Reduce overhead to manage custom objects especially custom fields. Capture timesheets from team. 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
Business Process Improvement	Improve customer satisfaction Design innovative products Speed business processes Reduce process costs 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
Information Engineering and Database Systems	Support Business enterprise effectively Build flexible database designs Simplify data architectures Avoid data design tragedies Create re-usable data structures Reduce cost of building software. 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
Accelerate everything with Turbo brainstorming	Build high-performance teams to fast track projects. Communicate more clearly with clients, team and management. Speed JAD sessions with Turbo brainstorming. Design better products - Harness your teams ideas and creativity. Reduce wasted time in meetings by 60%. Solve problems faster. 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.
Systems Analysis	Define client requirements as a foundation for design, development, change management, testing and success. Increase client commitment Reduce specification effort Speed systems analysis Analyze alternative proposals Generate feedback 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
Web Design	Share information over the web Create personal web page Post the web page to a host server Enhance your web page with styles 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

Click here List of Recommended books on Project Management, Team Building, Estimating, Software Development methodologies, requirements definition, and Microsoft Project.

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