Who should attend?

Telecommunications Operators, Vendors and Telecom Service Providers. The course is oriented at the whole spectrum of staff who deals with Project Management, both Executives responsible for project’s start-ups and realization (Members of the Boards of Directors and Project Steering Committees) as well as Project Managers and Network Roll-out team members performing separate parts of the whole project cycle.

Expected Results

The participants will gain comprehensive knowledge about Telecommunication Project Management:

1. Introductory issues: project definition, targets, resource pooling and deployment,
2. Detailed planning steps and related exercises,
3. Implementation together with supporting methodologies and tools,
4. Relevant project logistics and advanced logistical management systems,
5. Detailed knowledge on effective planning, implementing, monitoring, quality control and closing telecom projects.

Training Objectives

The following general objectives were set for this course:

1. Introduction to and familiarization with TPM specifics,
2. Learning how to plan projects in a professional manner,
3. Couching implementation exercises aimed at effectiveness,
4. Gaining professional knowledge of modern internationally recognized methodologies and related issues,
5. Systematization of methodological approach to PM,
6. Exchanging knowledge and experience with trainers, the PM pragmatists.

Training Programme

Telecom Project Management Training intends to provide the participants with a quick reference guide to the fundamentals and concepts of managing telecommunication projects. In other words, it covers the fundamentals of project management as practiced specifically in the telecom environment. These fundamentals include the roles and responsibilities of the project manager and the project team members across the Telecom Project life cycle. They also consist of how to define and develop a project plan, define long and short-term objectives, resources plan as well as the basics of how to manage and monitor project performance against a project assumptions and how to close out a project effectively.

The headlines of the main training sessions:

1. Introduction to the course: Project Definition (the project, specifics, objectives, resources, work distribution),
2. Planning the Project: work sequence, action plan, process flows, resources, risk & assumptions,
3. Implementation: monitoring, change management, effectiveness, examples and practical cases,
4. Methodology: most often used methodologies, supporting tools and instruments,
5. Advantages of methodical Project Management.

This training follows the Project Management Institute's Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) material.

Pre-requisites

The comprehensiveness of training content allows for attending it by both experienced staff in PM as well as by personnel who just start their activities in the field. The course does not set any specific requirements in order to attend. However, the participants should have at lease general knowledge about telecommunication industry. The knowledge of TPM and former experience is encouraged but not necessarily to benefit from the course due to its complexity. Not experienced staff will gain a solid introduction to the subject while higher professionals will significantly upgrade relevant skill and will make their knowledge well systematized enabling them for better effectiveness in operation.

Training Structure

Three days training divided into logical sessions.

Methodology

Lectures & presentations, moderated discussions.