"Practical Project Management for Smaller Firms"

This seminar is specially designed for small and medium sized organizations.

This pragmatic fast moving seminar is designed to provide “use-it tomorrow”
information and skills. It is specifically planned for firms with small to medium-sized projects.

Who Should Attend?

• Experienced Project Managers who need to update or refresh their project management abilities.
  
  
• Aspiring or New Project Managers who may have or anticipate having project manager responsibilities but little or no previous training.
  
  
• Technical/Operations Managers who supervise or direct project managers.
  

Regardless of project size or complexity, there are certain basic project management fundamentals, when applied, will result in a successful project. The ultimate bottom lines are client satisfaction (repeat business and referrals) and project profitability (make more money).

• Project manager responsibilities
  
  
• Relationships between the proposal and the scope of services
  
  
• Developing project budgets
  
  
• What are the project Triple Constraints?
  
  
• Integrating the scope, schedule and budget into a work plan
  
  
• The project kickoff meeting
  
  
• Practical and simple ways to monitor the project
  
  
• Characteristics of a good project manager
  
  
• Achieving project quality
  
  
• Ways to increase client satisfaction

Each firm addresses these issues in a unique way depending on the firm's culture, types of cost accounting and project tracking systems. However, this seminar will give universal approaches that you can readily integrate into your organization. The seminar will provide real value to your firm for years to come.

Seminar Leader:

DOUGLAS A. WALLACE, Ph.D., P.E.

      resume for Dr. Doug Wallace

Doug is a civil and environmental engineering practitioner and educator with 40 years of international and domestic experience as a professor, environmental engineering consultant, project manager and manager with engineering consulting firms. He has held numerous positions in consulting engineering firms including field engineer, design engineer, project manager, department and division manager and president. He also has taught extensively, which includes 5 years of experience as a university instructor and professor and development and teaching of seminars and courses on the management of professional service firms. His project management experience is extensive having managed numerous small to very large domestic and international projects. He holds a BS in Civil Engineering from the University of Illinois and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Iowa in Environmental Engineering and is a registered professional engineer in several states. He is an Adjunct Professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Iowa.