Project Management in Consulting - a Step-by-Step Guide

Project Management in Consulting - a Step-by-Step Guide

Are you considering to start as a project manager in consulting? Are you already working as a consultant and desire to become a project manager in the next step? Are you a newbie project manager? Do you really feel supported by the existing project management methodologies? Are you looking for a dedicated “to the point” guideline explaining how project management in consulting works in practice?

Then join this course and learn easy way what managing a consulting project is really all about!

All lectures contain a condensed summary of best practices from more than 13 years of experience working as a project manager on large-scale complex projects all over the globe. Supported by this Step-by-Step Guide you will be able to quickly grasp the nature of a consulting project while saving significant amount of time avoiding trial and error at the start of your career. Having passed this course you will be lifted up to the experience level of your “old hands” colleagues. You will be directly able to see “behind the scenes” which will save your time, enhance your performance and boost your competitive advantage as a specialist in project management.

The course will be taught from a case study perspective. We will be dealing with two fictive companies – one acting as a Contractor and another one acting as a client. Each party engages persons, who interact which each other during various project stages. One of these persons will be our project manager. Your learning process will be supported by getting direct insights in his daily work.

Your Instructor:

Dr. Eugen Truschkin graduated from Technical University of Berlin with a diploma in industrial engineering. He spent five years working as a research associate at two universities in Germany (Technical University of Berlin, Technical University of Darmstadt), being responsible for creating and holding lectures, managing research projects for both private and public authorities, and publishing his results in peer-reviewed journals.

Having defended his Dr. thesis, he joined a consulting company in Germany - a part of a transportation and logistics holding acting worldwide. Eugen has been a project manager for more than 13 years and is currently a Senior Project Manager in consulting responsible for managing large-scale projects in different industries around the globe. At the same time he teaches project management as a university lecturer and acts as a mentor for project managers and consultants who have recently started their career in this field.

What you’ll learn:

• Essential theoretical foundation of project management – covering major tasks of a project manager, existing PM approaches (waterfall vs agile), stages of a consulting project.

• What competencies are expected from a project manager.

• How different mindsets and work approaches impact project management.

• How the attractiveness of a project is assessed What are RFI and RFP.

• How to set up a technical and commercial proposal.

• What a typical contract structure looks like. How to draft crucial elements of your contract minimizing risks for your project.

• How to control scope, time and cost – Dos and Dont’s. Templates to be used during the project execution.

What you’ll receive:

• High quality video lectures with contents bringing project management in consulting “to the point”.

• High quality downloadable handouts that you can always use as a supportive source of knowledge in your daily work.

• Real world downloadable project management templates as open source files.

• Real world case by the end of the course to practice what you have learned.

• Lifetime access to the course.

• Instructor support in case you have any questions.

Why this course?

• It is a tailor-made course for project management in consulting.

• It includes concise TO-DO’s for each particular stage of a project life cycle.

• It is taught from a case study perspective making project management in consulting tangible.

• It provides you with the best practices from the instructor’s own experience working around the globe on different types of projects and interacting with other global players in consulting (MBB, Big4).

• Your instructor has more than 13 years of teaching experience – both as a university lecturer and as a mentor for project managers and consultants who start their career.

• Course updates on a regular basis with your lifetime access.

Your TO-DO's managing a consulting project – Project Request, Technical & Commercial Proposal, Contract, Execution

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What you will learn

• Essential theoretical foundation of project management – major task of a project manager, PM approaches (waterfall vs agile), stages of a consulting project.
• What competencies are expected from a project manager.
• How the attractiveness of a project is assessed. What are RFI and RFP.

Rating: 4.5

Level: Beginner Level

Duration: 1.5 hours

Instructor: Dr. Eugen Truschkin