We all apply the principles of project management practice when we plan and manage the time, cost and quality aspects of our personal vacations and home improvement projects. But what is the right practice for your business needs?

ALIPRO's Introduction to Project Management addresses this question as a common sense approach for all individuals involved in project delivery.

Students learn critical project success fundamentals such as aligning project objectives to business goals and the 4 basic practice requirements. Course content covers team structure, the project delivery process, use of project tools and the importance of following project management discipline.

Insight to best practice benefits is gained through examination of a model project. Learning includes recognizing gaps in your current practice and identifying remedy actions. This training is highly interactive, supported by exercises with output from project tools and includes simple to use take-away templates.

Everyone agrees they are committed to project success. Yet all too often projects fall short of delivery expectations. Project shortfalls lead to unhappy customers, lost revenue, additional investment requirements and all around frustration within the business organization.

ALIPRO's Executive PM 101 training is targeted at Business and Function Managers and presents our Project Alignment Success System - P.A.S.S. as the solution to this dilemma.

Crucial project success concepts such as proper alignment of business goals and project deliverables are presented as the foundation for best practice. Business managers learn the value of their role in promoting effective project management practice, and how to request, understand and use project management data to increase their confidence in making overall project direction decisions.

Would you like to gain insight to corrective actions taken by like-industry companies with similar project challenges as yours? What aspects of project management did they benefit the most from and how did they measure the resulting value?

ALIPRO has documented numerous case studies of actual project dilemmas where our Project Alignment Success System - P.A.S.S. was applied to realign project direction. Each case study outlines the project background, the practice improvements that were introduced, and the measured results that came from using ALIPRO P.A.S.S. practices.

Our Industry Case Studies are delivered as a workshop that presents Project Managers with the unique opportunity to examine real like-industry project situations, and assists them to recognize project threats and capably define corrective actions that will set their projects back on course, long before there is any impact on a successful project outcome.

A comprehensive delivery plan is the backbone of every successful project. An effective plan addresses the entire work scope and serves as the roadmap for accomplishing all the project deliverables and business goals.

ALIPRO's Project Planning Cycle training is a ‘paper-planning’ course that teaches participants how to gather, organize and schedule all necessary planning details, thus enabling them to own and troubleshoot the content of their project plans – without the involvement of software. This training addresses project organization and definition, and includes the practice of using project charters, work breakdown structure, network logic diagramming, scheduling, and critical path identification as well as defining project resources and costs, and dealing with business constraints and project risks.

Learning is accomplished through progressive work planning exercises using our exclusive templates and pro-formas that can be readily incorporated into the participants’ work place.

Are you getting value from time invested in meetings? Otherwise, do you find yourself spending time in meetings where you’re unsure of why you’re there, that for the most part are unfocused and which typically lead to further unproductive meetings?

ALIPRO's Efficient Meeting Facilitation training develops your skills as the Meeting Facilitator who ‘owns’ the meeting objective and ensures the group successfully accomplishes all meeting goals in an efficient and effective manner.

Attendees are introduced to facilitation tools and practice their meeting management techniques in a classroom environment that develops and reinforces the value added skills of a Meeting Facilitator. This training will enable you to properly plan and prepare for meetings and lead others to effectively communicate and work together towards a common outcome.

Our Project Planning Workshop presents an excellent opportunity for your team to collectively build their project delivery plan under the guidance of an ALIPRO Professional Planning Facilitator.

A planning session led by ALIPRO ensures your team understands and uses the practices and tools introduced in our PPC Training. We’ll confirm the robustness of your project charter, delivery team structure and their roles and responsibilities. We’ll lead your team to work together to create their project summary structure, define work tasks, build a Network Logic Diagram, forecast the delivery schedule, identity the critical path, and optimize their plan against business constraints.

Any project performance issues that surface during the Planning Workshop will be logged in a Project Issues and Actions Report to be presented along with the Project Plan for acceptance by the Project Sponsor(s) once the team returns to their normal work environment.

The Project Delivery Cycle covers 90-95% of the entire project life cycle. It is typically a highly stressful phase when the project can quickly get off track if execution issues are not resolved in a timely manner.

Proactive management of the Project Delivery Cycle is paramount to ensuring the project delivers its customer satisfaction goals and return on investment to the business.

Our Project Delivery Cycle training teaches the monitoring and control techniques required to effectively coordinate the execution of project activities, control scope creep, and keep the project navigation plan current. This learning empowers attendees with the know-how, tools and practices necessary to maintain control of project direction during this critical management phase.

Learning includes how to use activity sheets to ensure tasks are performed to scheduled dates, employ an update process to keep the project plan current, analyze performance, troubleshoot and resolve execution issues, and devise recovery plans for tasks that get off track and how to prepare for and run project control meetings, as well as contribute to business reviews.

Risk is a factor that is introduced with every project endeavor. The key to managing project risk is to proactively recognize project threats and implement effective risk mitigation strategies.

ALIPRO’s Risk Management training demonstrates how to employ a risk management and resolution practice to identify known - as well as unknown - project risks. Participants learn how to incorporate risk planning within the project management cycle to identify and analyze project risks and determine required actions to effectively address or avoid any serious project impact.

Attendees gain understanding in how to apply risk mitigation and avoidance practices such as ACAT (Avoid, Control, Accept, and Transfer) and risk monitoring and control tools such as RAID and RAIM logs.

The purpose of Obeya is primarily to ensure project success and shorten the plan-do-check-act process. Obeya in Japanese means ‘big room’. The Obeya room typically displays charts and metrics depicting program and/or project timing, milestones and progress, along with countermeasures to tackle existing timing or technical problems and is where the project team routinely meets to address execution needs.

Our training introduces Obeya as a visual project management practice that enhances effective and timely communication of project status through cross-functional team collaboration. Participants learn how to establish an Obeya room that employs the practice of tracking project delivery through time, cost and quality objectives to quickly surface and resolve issues that threaten completion of project deliverables.

ALIPRO Obeya Practice training equips attendees with our easy to follow Obeya practice guidelines, templates and tools that enable them to readily start benefiting from establishing Obeya practice in their own project environment.

Our PMP (and Certified Associate Project Management (CAPM)) Prep training is chiefly for participants who need to pass their Project Management Professional certification exam.

Our PMP Prep training confidently empowers you with exam strategies and tips and is packed with extra benefits. You'll have a dedicated PMP instructor who will work with you to create your own personal study plan. You'll receive 35 contact hours of Project Management Education - the full amount required to fulfill the exam pre-requisite. And as an added bonus you'll be given personal access to the ALIPRO PMP® Exam Simulator to practice for the exam.

This course comes with the ALIPRO P.A.S.S. Guarantee that states if, by following our training instruction, you do not pass the PMP certification exam on your first sitting, ALIPRO will re-train you and pay for your makeup exam.

ALIPRO offers our PMP Refresher course for individuals who, due to time constraints or other commitments, were unable or did not take the PMP Certification Exam as scheduled after completing our original PMP Prep training.

The training is composed as a custom delivery to participants who want to refresh or practice their knowledge on specific topics from the content of our PMP Prep course, in anticipation of taking or rescheduling their PMP Exam.

If you are interested in our PMP Refresher training, please contact ALIPRO directly to discuss your training needs with one of our PMP instructors who will work with you or your organization to tailor our training delivery to suit your individual requirements.