S.M. Manzurul Islam
Chowdhury
Chief Consultant
Continuing Education Centre, Dhaka

Training Overview:

Dynamic planning, managing multiple resources, supporting better communication, participatory monitoring and evaluation are the essential components of a transparent project management. Computer application in these areas would be of great benefit by making the project team more powerful for efficient and effective planning and implementation.

Project management is to create a balance among the scarce resources and to ensure deliver under strict deadlines in the face of ever-increasing customer expectations. This course provides the skills required to schedule and deliver projects on time. By performing these tasks using MS Project using computer, key-scheduling techniques can be put into practice for project planning, resource allocation and monitoring.

Training Content:

--- Inauguration and Introduction
--- COMPASS
--- Concepts of Project management
--- Nine knowledge areas of PM
--- Three constraints of PM
--- Importance of Project Time Management

 


            --- Critical Path-Identification and implications
            --- CPM, PERT
            --- Mock Project
            --- Project selection and Project basic write up

--- Setting up group projects
--- Group work
--- Scoping and Activity listing

--- Duration estimating and time optimisation
--- Sequencing techniques
--- Structure of MS Project

--- An overview of MS Project 2007
--- Setting up the project with MS Project
--- Five steps to approach MS Project
--- Activity dependency

--- Gantt chart, Network diagram
--- Critical path analysis
--- Resource allocation and Levelling

--- Resource planning and Allocation
--- Obtaining Information using MS Project 2007
--- Report generation & Group presentation

--- Review and Q & A
--- Action plan Proposed

After attending this two-day course, participants will be able to:

• Demonstrate their familiarity with the required nine knowledge areas of the project
• Develop realistic schedules to achieve effective project time management
• Identify and use different features of MS Project
• Develop different project network diagrams to identify the sequence of activities
• Identify Critical Path to treat the activities accordingly using computer
• Effectively assign resources and to communicate with the team
• Verify the under allocation or over allocation
• Perform schedule analysis and recommend corrective actions to keep the project on track
• Generate readable, reliable and preferred type of project reports to keep stakeholders informed

Mr. S.M. Manzurul Islam Chowdhury
Chief Consultant
Continuing Education Centre, Dhaka

Mr. S.M. Manzurul Islam Chowdhury is the Chief Consultant of Continuing Education Centre (CEC) a leading human resource development organization in Bangladesh. He is one of pioneer facilitators with wide versatility and has got 26 years of experience in training and teaching in abroad and Bangladesh. He completed his Masters program form Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok in 1983. He is a member of Project Management Institute (PMI) USA. He is also member of International Reading Association, USA, and South Asian Network for Development and Environmental Economics and Life Fellow of IEB. He has developed more than 30 courses in the area of business management and development management. Out of which 17 courses are patented and trade marked. His area of interest includes knowledge driven informed decision-making process in project management and integration of project Knowledge Management (KM)

Mr. Islam has vast Experiences in:

• Started career as Design Engineer in Shaheedullah & Associates ltd
• Joined IFIC, AIT Bangkok as Research Associate in 1986
• In 1987 became Information Scientist of IFIC, AIT, Bangkok
• In 1987 selected as Assistant Editor of International Journal of Ferrocement
• Joined Bangladesh Institute of Technology, Chittagong as Assistant Professor in 1989
• In 1990 established Abacus & Automation ltd. - a leading IT company
• At the same time joined Continuing Education Centre as Chief Consultant
• Extended time to time consultancy services to WFP, WHO, UNICEF, GTZ, CDSP III for retreat, learning workshop and project management
• National Consultant to WTO for Quality Support to exporters in Bangladesh since March 2008
• Practicing NLP since 2008 specially for one to one coaching for senior management people
• Consultant and facilitator to a number of Government and Development Agencies