Project Execution Training

The real measure of effective organization change is not how fast you implement, but how quickly your efforts make an impact and how that impact is sustained and even increased over time.

Presents the federal project manager’s role within the government acquisition process and relates project activities to acquisition methodologies.

Build the mindsets, skills and confidence to perform more effectively under conditions of continuous change and uncertainty.

Provides in-depth knowledge of the acquisition process, team members’ roles and responsibilities, and acquisition methodologies, in particular performance-based acquisition.

Direct and manage EVM implementation across the program life cycle and build up extensive EVM capabilities to be applied to large, complex projects/programs.

In-depth analysis of the process leading from business strategy formation to portfolio development to the project manager’s role from a project management perspective.

Sensitizes participants to the mindset necessary to think and act strategically as they lead and execute work in their organizations.

Addresses the work needed to ensure that a solution, once in place, actually delivers the business value that was expected and to optimize that business value over its useful life.

Focuses on the performance of the key tasks of the federal project/program manager in order to successfully integrate acquisition within the project/program life cycle.

Provides information on financially managing a project throughout the life cycle, using earned value management (EVM) and integrated baseline reviews (IBR).

Provides advanced concepts of project management in the federal government, with an emphasis on application of tools and techniques to manage a federal acquisition project.

Covers using budgeting and financial estimating methods and tools.

Building Effective Teams focuses on how to implement practices for leading highly effective teams in unstable and often distributed environments.

Develops foundational mindsets and skills that allow employees at all levels to increase productivity and build strong working relationships.​

Business Data Modeling explores business rules, policies and procedures and how they can be modeled effectively.

Perform the four phases of a process improvement project—Define, Analyze, Implement and Control—derived from leading process improvement models.

Offers a powerful behavioral coaching and mentoring model and tools that will improve the quality and effectiveness of coaching with lasting results.

Shows how to uncover what executives really care about and tailor your message to them.

An activity-driven, “nuts-and-bolts” course demonstrating how to perform continuous improvement of your work using Lean and Kanban.

Presents the regulatory basis for the contract closeout process and takes participants beyond theory to a real-life perspective of the challenges of actually doing closeout.

Provides an overview of all phases of contracting, from requirements development to closeout, and how incentives can be used to improve contract results.

Contract Pricing offers participants a comprehensive, practical approach to establishing and evaluating prices for government contracts.

Cost Estimating is a fundamental yet challenging task for contract and project managers.

Addresses the five types of critical thinking needed in business environments: strategic, tactical, analytical, innovative and implicative.

Provide knowledge needed to identify business needs and analyze the benefits of various solution options to help limit the choices before work gets underway.

Spend 25% of the time on “What” and “Why” behind the Scrum Agile Framework and 75% on “HOW” you can start using it on your team.

Delivering Business Value provides an overview of the financial and business acumen and analysis skills needed to ensure that project-based work results in true value for the business.

An iterative design process which bridges imagination and implementation to help rapidly and incrementally address complex challenges, create value and grow.

Focuses on the processes of requirements gathering, communication and prioritization in an Agile environment.

Provides required competencies for identifying and modeling use cases - for eliciting, analyzing, documenting and communicating functional requirements.

Invites participants to explore how change has impacted their own lives and to discover what it means to adopt an adaptive mindset.

Provides skills for eliciting requirements from users and stakeholders and managing those requirements throughout solution development.

Enterprise Business Analysis applies an approach to business analysis to deal with complexity and change on an enterprise-wide basis.

Sets the stage for maximizing the performance of technical professionals by incorporating different business perspectives into their experience.

Provides an in-depth understanding Agile planning and estimating topics that are commonly a source of struggle and frustration within project teams.

Facilitation Techniques for Business Analysis focuses on teaching the facilitation skills necessary to elicit and analyze requirements on a project.

An intensive, 4-day introduction to government contracting - understand procurement from acquisition planning through contract closeout.

Help differentiate yourself in the competitive market

Help differentiate yourself in the competitive market

Help differentiate yourself in the competitive market

Addresses the scope of business analysis: before, during and after solution implementation, and also includes enterprise business analysis.

Fundamentals of DevOps provides new ways of thinking about how development and operations can work better together to deliver value to customers more quickly.

Fundamentals of Lean and Agile provides a foundational exploration of what it means to be Lean and Agile.

Government Contract Law focuses on the basic legal principles involved in federal government contracts.

Teaches techniques for creating high-impact communication with coworkers, clients and stakeholders.

Addresses how to identify, quantify, control and respond to risk management in the context of a more prescriptive/hybrid IT project life cycle.

Helps leaders hone their ability to prepare, deliver, and discuss their ideas, proposals, and requests to get the results they need.

Provides skills needed to build credibility and effectively influence stakeholders, even if they lack the formal authority to make demands on resources.

Learn to anticipate and address risks, issues and conflicts that arise in managing contractual relationships with foreign firms and governments.

An activity-driven course for teams and leaders of teams that demonstrates how to perform iterative delivery of work using Scrum and Kanban.

Provides a leadership-focused approach to assessing project complexity and deploying the best approaches and techniques to achieve success.

Helps you take a nimble approach to leading project managers, managing direct reports and managing the expectations of senior audiences.

Provides understanding of the Project/Program Manager’s role within a federal agency and how it requires knowledge of the many facets of leadership.

Presents best practices on leading federal projects, to help manage an integrated project team (IPT) and improve communication, decision-making and conflict management.

Help differentiate yourself in the competitive market

Lean and Agile Project Management is an activity-driven course that teaches participants how to promote value-based, high-quality, accelerated delivery of projects in a sustainable manner.

Focuses on the nature of our working contexts today, arguing that the work we do is more complex than ever, and that this complexity demands new approaches.

Provides the skills and tools necessary to master the intricacies of relationship management in the contemporary work context.

Explores the foundations of project management and how to initiate, plan, implement, monitor and report, and close out federal government projects.

Provides the foundation for the more advanced courses in the IT project management curriculum.

Managing Projects provides the foundation for the more advanced courses in the core project management curriculum.

Outlines the major processes and tools of developing and managing SLA as a part of a performance-based service contract.

Explores the dynamics of competitive and collaborative models of negotiation, the 4 stages of negotiation and the issues experienced in the project management context.

Negotiation Strategies and Techniques provides a solid battery of strategies, tactics and skills that are effective in contract formation and contract administration negotiations.

In Operating Practices in Contract Administration, you’ll address all aspects of effective contract administration — from initial award to final closeout.

This PMI® Authorized PMP® Exam Prep course improves the’ chances of passing the grueling PMP® certification exam.

Program Management empowers participants to identify and refine the advanced business and leadership skills required to go beyond managing projects to excel at managing programs.

Lays the foundational knowledge and skills to implement essential activities throughout the life cycle of a typical government program.

Project Leadership, Management, and Communications provides participants with the tools necessary to enhance and build on their leadership skills.

Project Management Applications is the capstone course for the project management core curriculum—reinforcing and synthesizing the spectrum of project management principles.

Learn techniques to help get control of your workload with the tips and techniques from project management with this highly-facilitated one-day workshop.

Designed to teach experienced project portfolio managers and business sponsors how to apply Agile, Lean and Kanban to portfolio planning and management.

Quality for Project Managers applies quality principles to project management itself, not just to the products and services resulting from projects.

The focus is on proven tools and techniques that can be applied rapidly in most situations for assessing and stabilizing a troubled project.

Risk Management addresses how to identify, quantify, control, and respond to risk management in the context of a more prescriptive/hybrid project life cycle.