Rhyming Planet offers in-depth project management training courses, designed to help organizations change the way that IT projects are selected, designed and managed. From strategy sessions for senior executives to customized, on-site project management training classes for project managers and team members, our experienced instructors provide the relevant content and learning vehicles to reach the entire enterprise.

Give your company the advantage and convenience of targeted in-house project management training. Our "hands-on, customized to your organization" learning strategy is designed to motivate action and encourage performance to meet your unique needs. Our mutual success is attained through a follow-up mentoring program to ensure that the lessons learned through training results in practical project improvement and knowledge implementation.

Our instructors have taught more than one thousand professionals around the world how to successfully manage their IT projects. These talented instructors use real world examples to facilitate knowledge transfer. They come from a plethora of industries and have backgrounds in organizational behavior, mathematics, and management information systems. All have taken projects from concept to successful delivery of products to satisfied customers.

Our courses target all levels of experience, from new to experienced project managers and executive management. Each course uses a single case study to build practical and relevant group exercises. These exercises provide attendees with techniques and skills they can immediately use on their own projects and careers. Unless otherwise noted in the course description, most of our courses are three days in length.

Current course offerings include:

• Build and Manage Effective and High Performing IT Project Teams (ITPT-001) provides the project manager with techniques and skills to use in building and managing an effective project team throughout the software project lifecycle.
  


• Practical Project Management for Information Technology (PPMIT-001) builds the skills necessary for new project managers to successfully run Information Technology projects and reinforces best practices for experienced project managers.
  


• Intermediate Project Management for Information Technology (PPMIT-002) enhances the skills of an experienced project manager to implement process improvement and best practices for Information Technology projects. Exercises enhance quality practices, risk management, and development of a business case.
  


• Project Cost and Schedule Management (PCSM-001) provides the experienced project manager with tools and techniques to manage project budget and schedule. This four-day course focuses on all phases of the project lifecycle: from project implementation through project closure.
  


• Practical Project Risk Management™ (PPRM-001) presents project managers with a risk management methodology. This course is written by an editor of the Risk Management section of the Project Management Institute's PMBOK® Guide.
  


• Outsourced IT Project Management: Successfully Managing External Project Factors (OITPM-001) provides the experienced project manager with tools and techniques to effectively manage external suppliers and vendors of technology, applications and services on outsourced IT projects.
  


• Project Management for Executives (PME-001) is a one-day seminar briefing senior and executive management on the benefits that effective project management tools and techniques bring to the organization.
  


• PMPrep™ Examination Preparation (PMPEP-001) prepares the attendee for the Project Management Institute's PMP® certification examination. This six day course was written by an editor of the 2000 edition of the PMBOK® Guide.
  

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