8-HOUR TRAINING PROGRAM

Managing Small Projects Successfully: How to Prevent Small Projects from Becoming Big Problems

Learn the skills, hacks, secrets, formulas, trouble-shooters and problem-solvers that make AEC firm executives and clients delighted with small project progress and outcomes.

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Overview

For AEC project managers and firm principals, smaller projects can be a core revenue driver. But, smaller projects still have the potential to carry big risk that can be a drag on resources, profitability, and client satisfaction. The good news is that, with the right set of skills in your toolbox, you can ensure that even the smallest projects deliver maximum profits.

Managing Small Projects Successfully: How to Prevent Small Projects from Becoming Big Problems is the 8-hour training program available live online or at your firm's offices that teaches the skills, hacks, secrets, formulas, and problem-solving frameworks that make AEC firm executives and clients delighted with small project progress and outcomes.

From planning, scheduling and budgeting to risk control and crisis management, this live online program packs everything you need into just 8 hours of instruction, broken into two-hour sessions to work with your busy schedule. Even better, it is packed with proven insight from the AEC project management experts at PSMJ.

Curriculum

Program Modules

Module 1

Keys to Being a Super-Valued PM

  • How to balance the varying demands of a PM managing small projects
  • Actionable things you can do now to develop as a PM
  • Business development secrets to turning small projects into big clients
Module 2

Planning for the Unique Needs of Small Projects

  • The six elements you must have in a project plan for small projects
  • How to effectively plan a project with a small budget
  • Why large project risk management doesn’t work on small projects
  • Contract deal breakers that could sidetrack your small projects
Module 3

Bringing Small Projects in on Budget and on Schedule

  • How to know where you really stand on your quick-hitting projects
  • Control scope creep – the small project success killer!
  • Scheduling hacks that limit small project risks
  • Managing teams when you don’t have time or budget to manage teams
Module 4

How To Be Successful in Small Project Situations

  • Tricks and tips for managing multiple projects concurrently
  • How being a sub-consultant can play to your advantage
Outcomes

What You'll Learn

Learn effective approaches for planning and budgeting small projects

Understand how small projects can strengthen client relationships and create future business opportunities

Build greater confidence in project management roles and responsibilities

Jared Jamison, P.E.
YOUR COACH

Jared Jamison

Jared Jamison, P.E., is an accomplished executive with over 20 years of experience in AEC firm leadership, having held senior roles including SVP and Director of Operations at Hankins and Anderson and VP of Operations at Mason & Hanger, where he led firm integration, strategic planning, and operations management.

Earlier in his career, he designed structural and specialty projects at Stanley D. Lindsey and Associates and URS Corporation, including the first extradosed cable-stay bridge in the world. Now focused on consulting and teaching, Jared is a speaker, writer, and adviser on AEC business management and strategy, and has served as adjunct faculty for the Virginia Commonwealth University Executive MBA program.

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