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16 Professional Development Units - PMI
AVAILABLE 4th QUARTER 2010
Best Practices for Government Project Management integrates findings from IPA's extensive quantitative research of government-funded projects, presenting in detail the key learnings and practices for project planning and execution that lead to superior outcomes. The seminar is intended for all involved in the definition and execution of projects, including both agency and contractor staff. This program is registered with the Project Management Institute (PMI), allowing attendees to easily claim 16 Professional Development Units (PDUs) upon completion of the course.
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16 Professional Development Units - PMI
Best Practices for Mining Projects integrates findings from IPA’s extensive quantitative research that links project management practices to project outcomes. This training can be integrated with companies’ project management work process, allowing industry Best Practices to be incorporated into the project system. The course will identify effective strategies for the following: defining mining and minerals project that best meet business needs, building an effective team, implementing contracting strategy, improving the business value, implementing technology improvements, understanding and managing risks, setting and achieving competitive targets, controlling a project as it progresses through execution and planning and scheduling projects. This program is registered with the Project Management Institute (PMI), allowing attendees to easily claim 16 Professional Development Units (PDUs) upon completion of the course.
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22 Professional Development Units - PMI
Best Practices for Small and Plant Projects is a 3-day training course that focuses on capital project planning and execution in the context of small and plant-based capital projects. Organizations spend between 30 to 65 percent of their capital budgets on small projects (less than US $10 million). IPA research has found that these small projects are frequently less successful than the larger projects executed by the same company. These small and plant projects are a mix of maintenance, regulatory, and revenue-generating projects. Both central project groups and plant-based project groups execute these small projects. This program is registered with the Project Management Institute (PMI), allowing attendees to easily claim 22 Professional Development Units (PDUs) upon completion of the course.
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14 Professional Development Units - PMI
Capital Project Delivery Excellence in Australia is a 2-day training course that presents key learnings and Best Practices for project planning and execution. The course is taught from the perspective of owner organizations that plan and execute capital projects. It focuses on the key aspects of project planning and execution: the critical Front-End Loading (FEL). This program is registered with the Project Management Institute (PMI), allowing attendees to claim 14 Professional Development Units (PDUs) upon completion of the course.
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12 Professional Development Units - PMI
Contracting in the Changing World of Projects is a day and a half long seminar to share knowledge on how contracting approaches and strategy are linked to business value. Contracting strategy is an important element of any project execution plan. It is often a contentious area with strongly held beliefs about how contract plans can influence project outcomes. However, no one contracting strategy is right for all projects or project systems. As more and more work is outsourced by owners to contractors, contracting arrangements have become increasingly important elements of the capital project process. This program is registered with the Project Management Institute (PMI), allowing attendees to claim 12 Professional Development Units (PDUs) upon completion of the course.
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16 Professional Development Units - PMI
Setting attainable cost and schedule targets is an important consideration in making investment decisions. Most organizations have more opportunities than they have funds to invest. Establishing Effective Capital Cost and Schedule Processes helps make the most effective use of available capital by setting accurate and reliable cost and schedule targets. This program is registered with the Project Management Institute (PMI), allowing attendees to easily claim 16 Professional Development Units (PDUs) upon completion of the course.
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18 Professional Development Units - PMI
The Executing Successful Complex / Megaprojects course materials are based on the cumulative findings of more than 20 years of research. IPA maintains proprietary upstream and downstream databases of projects executed by more than 200 companies. These IPA databases have detailed information for approximately 200 megaprojects. IPA uses these databases to conduct quantitative research that is focused on the drivers of project success. Executing Successful Complex / Megaprojects integrates key aspects of this body of knowledge into a single course. This program is registered with the Project Management Institute (PMI), allowing attendees to claim 18 Professional Development Units (PDUs) upon completion of the course.
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22 Professional Development Units - PMI
The IPA Institute offers the Exploration and Production Project Best Practices course for oil and gas exploration and production projects. Unlike our regular Project Management Best Practices program, this course focuses specifically on the practices and work processes related to the success of capital investments in exploration and production (E&P). The program incorporates subsurface and offshore issues into the current project management program. Like the standard Project Management Best Practices program, the E&P Project Best Practices course is designed to provide participants with Best Practices and learnings that have been shown to improve capital effectiveness. This program is registered with the Project Management Institute (PMI), allowing attendees to claim 22 Professional Development Units (PDUs) upon completion of the course.
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The Front-End Loading (FEL) Workshop helps the project team apply best practices to develop a roadmap to be used to execute the critical definition stage of the project prior to authorization.
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12 Professional Development Units - PMI
Far too many capital projects do not achieve the desired business outcomes. These investments fail to meet their targeted returns either by exceeding the expected cost and schedule targets, failing to operate as expected and, in the worst cases, being the wrong investment to meet the business need. Gatekeeping for Capital Project Governance provides a better understanding of what business people need to do to aid capital projects in achieving their objectives. This curriculum will improve the interface between business and engineering to better align project execution with business strategy. The program will provide business people with a set of questions they can ask to ensure a project meets business needs, methodologies for making changes when needed, and an understanding of the relationship between business decisions and project outcomes. Learnings from discussions with their peers and presentation of research findings will provide participants with the basis for implementation plans to improve capital effectiveness. This program is registered with the Project Management Institute (PMI), allowing attendees to claim 12 Professional Development Units (PDUs) upon completion of the course.
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8 Professional Development Units - PMI
Investing in innovative technologies can provide great business opportunities. These projects are often of strategic importance. However, new technology projects are often difficult to execute and carry greater risks than their standard technology counterparts. Mitigating Risks of Innovation, a seminar on Successful Commercialization of New Technology, shares the findings of IPA research to help participants minimize problems they may experience when incorporating innovation into their capital projects.
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14 Professional Development Units - PMI
Practices for Shorter, More Cost-Effective Turnarounds helps improve how organizations implement their turnaround projects by presenting key learnings and Best Practices for turnaround planning and execution. Findings are based on quantitative analysis of over 325 turnarounds executed worldwide, and represent a wide cross-section of the chemical and petrochemical industries. The program presents practices from IPA's quantitative research into the drivers of turnaround effectiveness as measured by: safety, shorter duration, smoother startups, lower capital and maintenance costs and more predictable costs and schedules. This course is officially registered with the Project Management Institute (PMI), allowing attendees to easily claim 14 Professional Development Units (PDUs) upon completion of the course.
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22 Professional Development Units - PMI
Project Management Best Practices is a 3-day training course that presents key learnings and Best Practices for project planning and execution. The course is taught from the perspective of owner organizations that plan and execute capital projects. It focuses on the key aspects of project planning and execution: the critical Front-End Loading (FEL) phase; elements of contracting strategy, key components of team effectiveness, implementing Value Improving Practices (VIPs); identifying and managing project risks, drivers of improved construction safety, and activities needed for controlling a project through execution; and managing change. This program is registered with the Project Management Institute (PMI), allowing attendees to claim 22 Professional Development Units (PDUs) upon completion of the course.
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21 Professional Development Units - PMI
Project Management for National Companies is designed to provide participants with Best Practices and learnings that have been shown to improve capital project effectiveness. As such, the ultimate objective is provide National Company staff responsible for managing projects a clear understanding of deliverables and requirements that with the support of project management consultants need to be completed during the development and execution phases of the projects. Project Management for National Companies presents learnings derived from Independent Project Analysis' (IPA) extensive quantitative research of thousands of actual projects, linking project management practices to project outcomes. This program is registered with the Project Management Institute (PMI), allowing attendees to easily claim 21 Professional Development Units (PDUs) upon completion of the course.
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The IPA Institute offers the Subsurface Excellence seminar to share Best Practices for defining the subsurface elements of asset development in E&P investments. Unlike our "Exploration and Production Project Best Practices" course, this seminar focuses specifically on practices and work processes for subsurface (reservoir and well construction). IPA research has shown that successful well program outcomes underpinned by excellent reservoir definition are the most critical determinants of return on investment in E&P developments. This seminar integrates findings from IPA’s extensive quantitative research that links project management practices to project outcomes. This research is based on IPA’s database of more than 1,200 E&P investments.
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The Value Improving Practices Workshop allows participants to develop guidelines for selecting and implementing value improving practices in their organizations.
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The Work Process Reengineering Workshop is designed to help establish a project process. It is often held in conjunction with a benchmarking study, which identifies the strengths, weaknesses, and practices being used by the given project process.
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