Best practices in planning and monitoring projects & programs

MANILA, Philippines - With many projects that are handled simultaneously, the great challenge for all leaders, decision-makers, and managers is how to plan, schedule, monitor and track these portfolio of projects effectively and efficiently.

To help solve these issues, the Center for Global Best Practices is launching a pioneering two-day program entitled, Best Practices in Planning, Scheduling and Monitoring Project Implementation on Wednesday and Thursday, Jan.9 & 10, 2012 at the Peninsula Hotel, Makati City, Philippines. (For registration or more details check www.cgbp.org or call Manila lines 842-7148/59 or 556-8968/69; Cebu lines (032) 512-3106/07 or Baguio (074) 423-5148).

Learn the best practices in applying the cutting-edge and world-class project management tools to be presented to you in a simplified and practical format by project management guru and course director Dr. Ken Smith, PMP, SM, DPA. He has over 40 years experience designing, scheduling, implementing, monitoring and evaluating social, economic, and business development projects in many countries and technical sectors. He has been tapped by the US Agency for International Development (USAID), the World Bank group, UN agencies, the African Development Bank, and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to teach project management as part of capacity building for many governments around the world.

Attendees of the seminar will get a free project management toolkit with a compilation of best practices tools and techniques for quick and easy use. This software includes 83 project management templates that are very useful to track and monitor your projects.

On day one of the lecture, participants in the learning event will have the opportunity to learn the Critical Path Method (CPM) which is an internationally-recognized “Best Practice” technique for project planning and scheduling. One can enjoy an executive implementation simulation game–developed by Dr. Smith to reinforce participants’ decision-making understanding and practices utilizing CMP.

On the second day, he will teach you the “Best Practice” system for monitoring and managing project implementation and managing the “Triple Threat” (TT) during project implementation–i.e. actual elapsed time, incurred expenditure and cost obligations and technical performance vs. the planned schedule, budget-to-date, as well as life-of-project budget.