Construction Project Management

Overview

Students will learn the best project management processes in the world today. Discover tips and techniques assembled from the combined experience and best practices of over 40,000 project managers. Learn how to better assure the success of every project that you undertake. The tools you will take away from this course will enable you to manage your construction projects in a method that is truly world class.

Course Highlights

• Process based project management
• Core competencies of project managers
• Working smarter not harder
• The project selection process
• Solutions to poor drawing quality
• The “Work Breakdown Structure”
• Solving “It’s not in my scope”
• 27 preconstruction services needed
• Project management maturity model CPM3
• The five process areas of project management
• The project initiating process
• What does lost time cost your firm?
• The project planning process
• Understanding human motivation
• Estimating planning time
• Motivators and demotivators 
• What is scope creep?
• Keeping your jobsite safe
• Assuring project quality requirements
• How to hire the best subcontractors
• Creating realistic project schedules
• The best estimating methods and tools
• Buy-out vs. procurement management
• Risk management techniques
• Overtime and productivity
• Historical data and its importance
• Learn how to negotiate what you deserve
• Getting project “buy-in”
• Eliminating conflict on the project
• Controlling the project
• The importance of project close out