Course Catalog

Project Management Workshops

Advanced Microsoft® Project 2003
2 day workshop  | PMI Registered: 16 PDUs (PMI ID SYS9110)

This advanced skill-level course is for individuals who are proficient in the basic functions, features and commands of Microsoft® Project and wish to take their skills to the next level. Emphasis is placed on five major topics, including transferring information between other applications, working with multiple projects, sharing resources across projects, advanced resource assignments and customizing the user interface. This workshop is especially suited for those involved in multiple projects, master projects or subprojects and shared resource pools.

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Advanced Project Leadership
2 day workshop  | PMI Registered: 20 PDUs (PMI ID SYS9080)

Project management processes and tools are only as effective as the people who use them. This is especially true when it comes to project leadership. The Advanced Project Leadership workshop is designed to help project managers become better team leaders by honing their skills in the key areas of communication, motivation, expectation setting and problem resolution. Students emerge from this two-day workshop equipped with immediately usable skills that empower them to lead teams towards desired project outcomes and organizational goals.

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Advanced Project Management
3 day workshop  | PMI Registered: 24 PDUs (PMI ID SYS7000)

The Advanced Project Management workshop gives seasoned project managers the knowledge and skills necessary to successfully manage increasingly complex project issues to meet desired goals and objectives. Assuming a mastery of project planning, this workshop extends skills to the remaining project management processes covering areas such as avoiding mistakes when executing and controlling a project, dealing with evolving stakeholder expectations, using trend analysis to measure project performance and improving project outcomes.

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Creating High Performance Project Teams
2 day workshop  | PMI Registered: 16 PDUs (PMI ID SYS4000)

At Systemation, we transform the way people perform in order to achieve desired project, portfolio and business results. Our approach involves strengthening competencies, stimulating productivity, improving employee interaction and sustaining expertise. To be successful, people must learn how to work in teams and collaborate with one another, not just use a tool. This workshop teaches project managers how to fully utilize the talented individuals in their project teams to achieve project and organizational success.

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Estimating and Risk Management
2 day workshop  | PMI Registered: 16 PDUs (PMI ID SYS5000)

Software projects present their own unique set of characteristics and concerns, including development costs, speed of completion, quality and reliability. Mastering best practices estimation and risk management techniques is critical if one expects to deliver projects on time and within budget. This workshop not only helps students become more proficient at estimating the parameters of a project’s time, cost and performance, but demonstrates the most effective methods of identifying and quantifying risks as well.

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Fast Start® In Project Management
3 day workshop  | PMI Registered: 24 PDUs (PMI ID SYS1000)

This highly interactive workshop is designed to give participants a solid foundation in the concepts, tools and techniques of formal project management. While introductory in nature, this course is extremely comprehensive, covering the five key process groups and 38 core competencies associated with effective and efficient project management practice. Participants not only acquire technique-based proficiencies, but also explore and practice essential people skills and teamwork. The concepts and methods learned are immediately usable in the workplace, leading to a greater retention of newly acquired skills, measurable project improvements, and the achievement of desired project results.

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Getting Project Results Through Contract Resources
2 day workshop  | PMI Registered: 16 PDUs (PMI ID SYS4091)

The Systemation approach hinges on the philosophy that project management processes and tools are only as effective as the people that use them. Unfortunately, the right resources are not always available within the company, and sooner or later most team leaders will find themselves having to look outside the organization for project support. This workshop walks participants through all phases of the procurement process, giving them the skills needed to effectively contract outside resources while avoiding potential traps and pitfalls. It also covers information concerning organizational planning and staff acquisition that is critical to obtaining the right people.

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Making Projects Work
2 day workshop  | PMI Registered: 16 PDUs (PMI ID SYS3000)

This highly interactive, results-focused workshop is ideal for project team members, practicing project managers and project leaders who need to achieve consistent project success through people. Participants will acquire advanced interpersonal skills and learn consensus-building techniques that help provide clarity and garner commitment from team members, customers and management. These influential skills are instilled in participants through real-world scenarios, which continually reinforce the skills, techniques and concepts necessary to improve project results immediately upon return to the workplace.

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Maximizing Project Success Through People
2 day workshop  | PMI Registered: 14 PDUs (PMI ID SYS4500)

Our most effective tool for achieving project success is our relationships. And since we are the common thread in all of our relationships, it makes sense that the process of improving our skills should begin with us. Through understanding “how we are with others” and “how we are with ourselves”, we can manage any project to a successful outcome.

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Microsoft® Project 2003
2 day workshop  | PMI Registered: 14 PDUs (PMI ID SYS1010)

This introductory workshop helps project managers and team leaders master the basic features and functionality of Microsoft® Project, such as initiating projects, planning, executing, controlling and reporting on progress. Emphasis is placed on using software to effectively create and manage project schedules using accepted project management principles and techniques. Students are encouraged to bring to class samples from their work projects, which are then incorporated into the exercises. This ensures that key project management concepts are transformed into experiential knowledge, which can be immediately applied to real-life projects when participants get back to work.

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Microsoft® Project 2007
2 day workshop  | PMI Registered: 14 PDUs (PMI ID SYS1020)

This introductory workshop helps project managers and team leaders master the basic features and functionality of Microsoft® Project, such as initiating projects, planning, executing, controlling and reporting on progress. Emphasis is placed on using software to effectively create and manage project schedules using accepted project management principles and techniques. Students are encouraged to bring to class samples from their work projects, which are then incorporated into the exercises. This ensures that key project management concepts are transformed into experiential knowledge, which can be immediately applied to real-life projects when participants get back to work.

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PMP Exam Preparation
2 day workshop  | PMI Registered: 16 PDUs (PMI ID SYS9000)

The PMP Certificate is the most recognized and respected credential in the field of project management. This workshop is dedicated to helping students earn their certificate by preparing them to pass the PMP exam. It focuses on key concepts in each of the process and knowledge areas, including the recently added professional responsibility section. The course begins with an introduction to the exam and why it exists. Students are then given a practice test, and the facilitator adapts the duration of each section of the course accordingly based on the needs of the workshop participants

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Project Management Executive Overview
1 day workshop  | PMI Registered: 4 PDUs (PMI ID SYS0500)

People look to project management executives for strong leadership and support, clear guidance and the ability to make well-informed decisions. It’s imperative that executives have the necessary skills and knowledge base to handle important issues such as strengthening competencies, stimulating productivity, improving employee interaction and sustaining expertise. This workshop helps executives better understand their role in the project management process and what it takes to build a world-class project management organization that consistently meets project objectives and organizational goals.

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Project Management for Information Systems
3 day workshop  | PMI Registered: 24 PDUs (PMI ID SYS2000)

This highly interactive workshop is designed to give participants a solid foundation in the concepts, tools and techniques of formal project management. While introductory in nature, this course is extremely comprehensive, covering the five key process groups and 38 core competencies associated with effective and efficient project management practice. Participants not only acquire technique-based proficiencies, but also explore and practice essential people skills and teamwork. The concepts and methods learned are immediately usable in the workplace, leading to a greater retention of newly acquired skills, measurable project improvements, and the achievement of desired project results.

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Project Management for Team Members
2 day workshop  | PMI Registered: 16 PDUs (PMI ID SYS9010)

Understanding best-practice processes is critical when working with a team to achieve project success, but acquiring and practicing good people skills is also imperative if project and organizational goals are to be realized. This two-day workshop provides participants with a thorough working knowledge of people skills and project management processes that can be immediately applied to any group project in the working world. Systemation has always put people and processes on equal footing, and students leave this course with a proper balance of skills needed to work effectively with others towards a common goal.

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Project Management Overview
1 day workshop  | PMI Registered: 7 PDUs (PMI ID SYS0600)

Ever stop and think that maybe all that talk in the next cubicle about hammocks, forward passes and child activities might not be about what your colleagues did over the weekend? You might not be directly responsible for managing projects, but it’s important to be familiar with the terms and concepts of this critical discipline when working in a project-based organization. This 1-day course covers everything you’ll need to participate in the project management process, including the significance of effective project management, important tools and techniques, and how your role can affect future project management results.

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Project Management Simulation
3 day workshop  | PMI Registered: 24 PDUs (PMI ID SYS6000)

This intensive workshop puts seasoned project managers at the helm of a high-profile project within a successful organization. Working with an eight-member ‘simulated’ team, participants navigate a complex, multi-project environment to bring their 40-week project in on time and on budget. Beholden to several different stakeholders, they must achieve all this without sacrificing any of the scope that defines project success. Paying attention to the details of project execution and control will help. However, a clear strategy for working with and through others will be essential for achieving the balance between what is wanted, and what is possible.

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Thriving on Conflict
2 day workshop  | PMI Registered: 16 PDUs (PMI ID SYS4050)

Systemation understands that tools and processes are important, but they are only as effective as the people that use them. As such, Systemation focuses on transforming the way people perform in order to achieve desired project, portfolio and business results. Part of this transformation process involves helping individuals discover how to make conflict work for them — not against them — in a variety of situations. By overcoming this major barrier to success, project managers become more effective in their efforts to achieve project goals and organizational objectives.

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Business Analysis Workshops

Advanced Business Analysis
3 day workshop  | PMI Registered: 21 PDUs (PMI ID SYS9150)

Modeling languages have been used for decades by system analysts and system developers. In this workshop, participants will learn the ins and outs of the Unified Modeling Language. Known as UML, this language is a key foundation component of the Object Management Group’s Model-driven Architecture. UML helps you make better decisions earlier in the system development life cycle, thus enhancing quality and reducing project time and cost. Participants also will learn the power of entity relationship diagramming (ERD), which complements modeling with UML. ERDs meet the unique challenges posed by requirements data modeling. Applying them early in the requirements discovery phases of a project helps you to enhance requirements communication.

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Analysis Simulation
2 day workshop  | PMI Registered: 16 PDUs (PMI ID SYS9040)

This intensive workshop leverages a computer-based simulation to help students integrate all the critical skills required to manage complex projects. Participants work through a simulated project to hone their skills in execution and control, with special emphasis placed on schedule and cost control. Students emerge from this three-day workshop with a practiced skill set that can be immediately applied to current projects back in the real world.

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Bringing Business Solutions to Life
2 day workshop

This workshop focuses on one of the most critical BA process areas that are most often over looked, the actual implementation of the requirements. It is tied to the business case development, requirements validation and testing aspects of the project. This ensures what is delivered in the end is what was expected from the beginning. Participants also learn how convert the requirements to the specifications required for solution evaluation, selection, and usability. Additionally, the workshop provides IT language and concepts that are critical to Analyst being able to effectively communicate with IT staff.

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Fast Start® in Business Analysis
3 day workshop  | PMI Registered: 24 PDUs (PMI ID SYS9010)

From problem definition and planning to project proposals and systems design, the Fast Start® in Business Analysis workshop gives analysts a thorough understanding of the entire Systems Development Life Cycle. Replete with both “hard” and “soft” skills, this three-day course builds a sound strategy for analyzing business processes and demonstrates how to apply concepts and practical techniques within the context of an experiential learning environment. Students emerge from this workshop with a solid foundation of systems thinking as well as a greater understanding that doing the right things is just as important as doing things right.

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Mastering the Requirements Process (3 Day)
3 day workshop  | PMI Registered: 21 PDUs (PMI ID SYS9100)

By mastering the project requirements process, business analysts and project managers can better manage customers’ expectations and satisfy their needs. Requirements discovery is the first step to a successful project. This workshop focuses on the skills necessary to thoroughly gather requirements from users, procedures, system components, and various business documents. Quality requirements statements are the next step in a successful project. So, participants will learn best practice techniques to write specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, and traceable, requirements statements. Finally, requirements must be properly communicated, validated and signed off to achieve a successful project outcome. By the end of this course, participants will have accomplished all three. Overall the workshop is designed to give participants the skills, hands-on application and confidence they need to tackle any project by producing and gaining approval for a quality requirements document.

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Survival Skills for Analysts
2 day workshop  | PMI Registered: 16 PDUs (PMI ID SYS9020)

This comprehensive workshop helps business analysts complement their practical systems thinking with a thorough understanding of effective people skills. A few of the many important topics covered in Survival Skills for Analysts include understanding team dynamics and resolving interpersonal conflicts; improving communication skills; planning and managing meetings more effectively and achieving greater consensus and commitment. To help ensure students continue to cultivate these critical skills after completion of the workshop, an action plan is developed for ongoing personal development in the workplace environment.

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