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Pressure to accelerate the pace of business means the race is on to reduce budget and deliver quickly. Learn how to apply ALM principles and deliver quality rich products quickly. This course focuses on successfully managing requirements, controlling change and safeguarding quality across the life of your application.

The U. S. is increasingly relying on outsourcing and expanding into new global markets. Differences in communication, business methods, culture and work environment means successfully partnering with U. S. businesses is a challenge. This course gives you the background you need to succeed when partnering with the U. S., either as vendor, service provider or client. Learn the business tactics, cultural expectations, and skills of negotiating and communicating that would take years of experience to learn.

Delivering product quality is critical to customer satisfaction, to staying on budget, and to delivering a product that meets organizational goals. Yet Standish reports that 24% of projects failed outright last year, and KPMG revealed that 70% of projects didn't meet time, cost, and quality goals. The challenge to do better than most has never been more important: Today's economy won't tolerate mistakes, poor quality products, or unhappy customers. This course emphasizes the application of quality assurance systems and how to overcome problems throughout all phases of a project. Covering ISO 9000:2005 in detail, students learn the fundamentals of quality management systems. During comprehensive discussions of practical issues, emphasis is placed on application, operation, organization, and control of quality processes for software, manufacturing and service products.

This industry leading project management course aligns a streamlined approach to the Project Management Institute's Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMI's PMBOK® Guide) with clear and unambiguous guidance on project management practices. In so doing, it provides an excellent preparatory course for PMP® certification. This outstanding course gives students and professionals a profound understanding of project management, diving deep into the strengths and weaknesses of differing methodologies, tools, and techniques, including Waterfall, Agile, Scrum, Earned Value Management, Burndown measurement, traditional metrics, and all nine PMI project management knowledge areas, and all five process groups.

In today’s information-rich economy, high profile information security breaches and cyber criminals are making headlines every week. This course teaches you how to protect your organization’s intellectual property and other information assets. You will learn how to implement an Information Security Management System that is compliant with the requirements of ISO 17799 and ISO/IEC 27001:2005. The course emphasizes selection of adequate and proportionate security controls that will work for the specific needs of your organization.

Today’s global businesses need to effectively manage multinational, multicultural teams spread across the globe. Differences in work ethics, communication, culture, and language present barriers that few companies successfully master — and in today’s economy, the pressure to perform keeps businesses moving quickly. This course gives you the background you need to succeed with international business essentials and the cultural intricacies of international teams. You’ll gain insider information that would take managers and executives years to learn. It’s your essential guide to real world solutions and successfully managing an outsource relationship.

This course will show you how to effectively manage technical, schedule, and cost objectives using earned value management (EVM) practices. Providing innovative guidelines, methods, examples, and templates consistent with capability models and standards, you will learn how to measure progress using practical, understandable techniques. Applicable to the management of any project, EVM has long been the most effective method for staying on top of your project health. The course compares and contrasts EVM with other techniques, such as Gantt and burndown modeling.

Are you aligned with your customer's needs, or are you just building to specifications? Is it possible to develop a strategy that delivers both? In this workshop we focus on best in class methods for managing customer requirements without losing sight of the health of your project, your customer, and the evolving goals of both.

Did you know that 70% of projects don’t meet time, cost and quality targets? Identifying, quantifying, and managing risk is critical to avoiding project pitfalls and achieving your goals. Our Risk Assessment and Management Workshop teaches you to discover risks, create solutions that eliminate them, and ensure success.

In 2009, 24% of projects failed completely, either being cancelled outright or delivered but never used. Learn how we’ve lost sight of how to deliver quality results, on time and on budget, and how to get back on target in this seminar by Zacharias J. Beckman.

Exploring the changing landscape and hidden challenges of the “BRIC,” Brazil, Russia, India, and China. This seminar focuses on recent changes in China's economic landscape, as well as briefly introducing some of the cultural and business challenges U.S. companies face when outsourcing in India and South Asia.

Over the past decade, less than one-third of projects have been deemed successful, according to KPMG and Standish estimates. Discover the flaws of Enterprise risk management practices today and methods for improving project success rates.