We take great pride in our comprehensive curriculum of courses aimed at helping organizations meet their Project Management Training needs, especially organizations using Microsoft Project Desktop as well as Microsoft Project EPM/Server.
All of our courses are designed as a combination of lectures and workshops. They are sufficiently self explanatory to allow students to follow-up on their own - keeping training costs under control.
These hands-on comprehensive courses are designed to meet the needs of the key Microsoft Project roles including Project Managers, Team Members, Resource Managers, Executives, and Administrators. We understand and discuss the challanges that Project Managers/Leaders face when they wear many hats!
For more complete transfer of knowledge, some organizations request that the students master the subject in the context of the work they are tasked to do. Mentoring follow-up is also available.
Project Management Fundamentals in Practice: Lecture and Workshops – 2 Days
This course covers the basic principles of Project Management including the five phases and nine knowledge areas of PMI’s PMBOK® Guide. Students learn the basics of creating a project plan, schedule, assigning resources and monitoring progress. WBS and task dependencies are discussed and practiced using Microsoft Project and 6D’s Project Management Methodology.
Course Prerequisites: None. Designed for Microsoft Desktop as well as Project Server users.
Benefits: The focus of this course is on combining three areas of knowledge and practice: Understanding the Fundamentals of Project Management, understanding the Processes and Tasks involved in the Project Management Lifecycle phases, and gaining skills in Microsoft Project to immediately put classroom learning into practice by starting to build project plans that incorporate PM tasks, organization roles and responsibilities, and necessary deliverables. This class helps students bridge the gap between theory and practice by walking though the phases and tasks of a Project Management Methodology and relating them to the Nine Knowledge Areas and Five Phases of PMBOK. Students gain a clear understanding of how the theory of Project Management is reduced to practice using Microsoft Project.
Audience: The course is designed for Project Managers, Team Leaders and PMO staff. Others who can benefit from the class include: Business Analysts, Team Members, EPM Systems Administrators, Program Managers and Portfolio Managers.
Project Manager (EPM): Lecture and Workshops – 2 Days
This course provides an overview of the concepts, facilities and features in Microsoft Project EPM. It is designed as a role based training course and assumes the normal functions performed by the project managers, team leaders and PMO staff. It covers the concepts and facilities included in Microsoft Office Project EPM Professional and Project Web Access. It covers the entire spectrum of the work that Project Managers generally perform from Project Plan Development, to Publishing and Managing the results.
Course Prerequisites: Participants should be familiar with basic Project Management concepts and principles. 6D Tech’s Project Management Fundamentals class covers the prerequisites for this course.
Audience: The course is designed for project managers, team leaders and PMO staff. Others who can benefit from the class include: Business Analysts, Team Members, EPM Systems Administrators, Program Managers and Portfolio Managers.
Resource Manager: Lecture and Workshops – 1 Day
This course prepares resource managers to use Microsoft Project Professional and PWA to manage resources, skills and allocation of resources to projects.
Course Prerequisites: Participants should be familiar with basic Project Management concepts and principles. 6D Tech’s Project Management Fundamentals class covers the prerequisites for this course.
Audience: The course is designed for resource managers, project managers, team leaders and PMO staff. Others who can benefit from the class include: Business Analysts, Team Members, EPM Systems Administrators, Program Managers and Portfolio Managers.
Team Member: Lecture and Workshops – 1 Day
This course prepares team members to use the collaboration facilities of PWA including: viewing assignments; reporting time and work performed; managing project documents and reporting project issues, risks, and status.
Course Prerequisites: None
Audience: The course is designed for Team Members who will be assigned to project tasks. Others who can benefit from the class include: Business Analysts, Project Managers, EPM Systems Administrators, Executives, Program Managers and Portfolio Managers.
Executive Training: Lecture and Workshops – 1 Day
This course focuses on learning how they can effectively manage and review projects, risks, issues, progress and other indicators across their organizations using PWA.
Course Prerequisites: None
Audience: The course is designed for Executives, Program Managers, Portfolio Managers, Project Managers, Team Leaders and PMO staff. Others who can benefit from the class include: Business Analysts, Team Members, EPM Systems Administrators.
System Administrator: Lecture and Workshops – 4 Days
This course prepares students to administer the different elements of Microsoft’s Project Server including setting up and managing business rules, enterprise codes, enterprise resource pools, user permissions, building OLAP-cubes and standardizing on views and dashboards.
Course Prerequisites: Participants should be familiar with basic Project Management concepts and principles. 6D Tech’s Project Management Fundamentals class covers the prerequisites for this course.
Audience: The course is designed for EPM Systems Administrators and PMO Staff. Others who can benefit from the class include: Business Analysts, Project Managers, Program Managers and Portfolio Managers.
Note: Systems Administrators and PMO staff are generally focused on specific requirements that they must implement in the Project Server. Time to implement most of the requirements is generally very short. We have found that delivering this course as a combination of lectures and mentoring over a one week time is also very effective
Project Manager (Advanced): Lecture and Workshops – 2 Days
Students learn the use of advanced features included in Microsoft Project EPM. Topics include EVA, multi-project roll-up and reporting, resource booking and managing baselines. The course also focuses on class discussions covering actual project situations and covers many best practices to effectively manage project plans from start to finish.
Course Prerequisites: Participants should be familiar with and have used Microsoft Project EPM on one or more projects. Prerequisites include the topics covered in 6D Tech's Project Manager course.
Audience: The course is designed for project managers, team leaders and PMO staff. Others who can benefit from the class include: Business Analysts, Team Members, EPM Systems Administrators, Program Managers and Portfolio Managers.
Note: This course builds upon the Project Manager course. Topics in course are covered in much greater detail. Cause and effect of certain decisions and setting is discussed in the context of actual project situations.