Project
L40: Distinctions between BOM, SOW and T&C’s
Many organizations collapse or confuse these essential terms and corresponding documents – often to the detriment of the project execution / control process – ultimately reducing profits.
L37: The Mature Project Management Mindset
Mature Project Managers typically share a mindset which supports them in many ways. Discover what makes up that mindset and learn how to grow and foster it in your Project Managers. In this session, we will discuss the importance of a Project Manager being able to: look into the future to plan and schedule multiple …
L33: Service / Support Best Practices
Highly successful AV integrators have figured out the truth: projects are temporary, but the customer relationships and successful use of AV equipment are an integral part of their culture. In this session, you’ll learn the differences between service vs support and select the right one for your installation. Have your organization mentally shift their focus …
L31: Commissioning / Substantial
Understand how Commissioning begins in the Warehouse and is incremental along the project’s lifecycle – quality cannot be inspected in at the end. Use of commissioning / service transition checklists. Understand the steps involved in gaining Client acceptance of the project (through incremental sign-offs at milestones) and the importance of Substantial Completion / training / …
L29: Project Performance Reporting (WIP)
Understand the need for and mechanics of collecting and distributing project performance information, including status reports, progress measurements, and forecasts. Involves periodic collection and analysis of baseline versus actual data and questioning of project team members to understand the cause of variance trends and communicate the project progress and performance as well as to forecast …
L27: Managing Change Orders
Project change orders are inevitable – a mature company establishes a traceable process to ensure the tracking of the changes and their causes. Internal change orders are used by the Project Manager and project team to manage the project’s cost variances throughout the project’s lifecycle – from Project Kick-off to transition to Service. They reflect …
L25 Project Scheduling
Critical path scheduling arose in order to visualize and manage the interdependencies and complexities of project activities, resources and time constraints. Most people who are planning a simple project keep the logical framework and timeline in their head – sharing with other project team members only their individual tasks (not their interdependencies) which often leads …
L23: Project Risk Management
The first step in mature risk management is identifying those risk events which may have an adverse effect on the project objectives – whether those are client success criteria, the scope and quality of the deliverables, impacts to project timelines and budgets, safety and regulatory compliance, etc. Understanding the risk appetite, tolerance and threshold of key …
L21: Client Coordination Meeting
The Client Kick-Off Meeting is the mechanism for the Project Manager to clarify: any expectations, assumptions, or constraints with the Client Representative; interdependent milestones; and understand the role / responsibilities of key project stakeholders (Change Order authority, Sign-offs, etc.).
L19: Project Internal Kick-off Meeting & Planning
Establishing the agenda and participants for the Internal Project Kick-off meeting, understanding the resource and timelines, converting the labor estimate into a resource-loaded project schedule with milestones.
L15: Project Estimating & Pricing
Project pricing and labor estimating are both an art and a science – there are fundamental principles used for each. The two goals are to be competitively priced to make a sustainable profit, and estimate enough labor hours in the correct categories to accomplish the quality specifications of the deliverables.
L11: Scope Of Work
Sales responsibilities and key deliverables from the Project Sales perspective – Needs Analysis / Site Survey / Governance / Scope of Work. Understand the importance of and how to validate project assumptions and constraints (Client-facing and Company) and assignment of responsibilities.