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 broaden comprehensive knowledge about Telecommunication Project Management:

1. Starting from introductory issues like project definition, targets, resource pooling and deployment the course will go down to detailed planning steps and related exercises and case studies.
2. Essential part of the training will be implementation together with supporting methodologies and tools.
3. Relevant logistics and relevant logistic management system will be presented, including outsourced models and best practice examples.
4. Prior to practical workshops and case studies the participants will be trained in effective project management. Commercial and business aspects of PM will complete the merits.
5. The participants will benefit in gaining examples on effective planning, implementing, monitoring of telecom projects,
6. An added value of proposed course is that it gives modern patterns and approaches verified in practically performed successful projects worldwide.
7. Yet the trainers are pragmatists with long professional track of international experience in the field, which they will share with participants along with lectures and workshop exercises.

Training Objectives

The course is oriented at the whole spectrum of staff who deals with Project Management, both managers and those performing separate parts of the whole cycle. The following general objectives were set for this course:

1. Introduction to Telecom Project Management specifics.
2. Examples of Project plans vs. professional manner of project planning.
3. Couching implementation exercises based on case studies from real Telecom Implementation projects.
4. Broadening professional knowledge of modern internationally recognized methodologies and standards of Telecom Project Management.
5. Presentation of the best practices and model case studies of methodological approach to PM.
6. Exchanging knowledge and experience with Trainers who performed in their professional assignments number of Telecom projects for communication network owners, operators and vendors resulted in developing project management expertise.
7. Widening knowledge of PM supporting tools.

Training Programme

Telecom Project Management Training II intends to provide the participants with a practical knowledge in reference to the fundamentals and concepts of managing telecommunication projects. Wherever possible, Telecom case studies will be used to explain project management concepts, risks and assumptions, specific interrelations among various conditions. Although most of the project management concepts under discussion can be applied to projects of most types, special challenges and risks associated with Telecom projects will be addressed, and insights adequate to Telecom project management in particular with be offered.

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 and Communication; Resources (own, sub-contractors, outsourcing); Risk & Assumptions; Supported by relevant sources materials, best practices examples.
3. Implementation: Monitoring, Change Management, Effectiveness, Examples and practical cases from implementation projects worldwide.
4. Methodology: most often used methodologies, supporting tools and instruments.
5. Advantages of methodical Project Management: Properly Managed Telecom Project case study.
6. Commercial & Business Aspects of telecommunication project management: Effective Communication, Negotiations, Business Presentation.
7. Workshops and practical exercises on overall project.

Pre-Requisites

The comprehensiveness of training content allows for attending it by both experienced and intermediate staff in PM. The participants should have general knowledge about telecommunication industry. The basic knowledge of TPM and former experience is encouraged and can help to benefit from the course to full extend. Both experienced staff and higher professionals will significantly upgrade relevant skills and will make their knowledge well systematized enabling them for better effectiveness in operation.

Training Structure

Five days training divided into logical sessions.

Methodology

Lectures & presentations, moderated discussions, source materials: case studies, examples of documentation, projects descriptions, specifications, functions, processes flows, etc.