Name: Is it Time for...The Talk?
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Are you noticing that someone you know is struggling with memory and may need some extra help?
Learn what these signs could mean, and also how to start the conversation about getting some help.To register:  CALL OR TEXT YOUR NAME TO 520-415-6363Dr. Jan Taplin Will share her 30+ years of knowledge and experience to give you the confidence to speak to your person about this touchy subject.Connect with others dealing with the same challenges…this is a FREE event

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Are you noticing that someone you know is struggling with memory and may need some extra help?
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Key Consulting

Project management is being increasingly recognized as a vital skill-set for many management positions, not just those with the title of “project manager”. This course provides in-depth, practical, project management fundamentals training. You will discuss projects from your own organization, and review tools and templates we use every day to manage real projects.

<h2>Who should take this Project Management Fundamentals course?</h2>

This course is for existing project managers who are interested in learning more about formal project management techniques, and anyone who is interested in becoming a project manager.

<h2>Where is this course offered?</h2>

The Project Management Fundamentals course is offered on an open-enrollment basis at our Project Management Education Center in <a href="https://consulting.ky/project-management-training/bellevue-project-management-courses/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Bellevue/Seattle</a>, WA, (which also serves Kirkland, Redmond, Renton, Everett, Federal Way, and Tacoma), as well as at our Project Management Education Center in <a href="https://consulting.ky/project-management-training/tucson-project-management-courses/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Tucson</a>, AZ (which also serves the Greater Phoenix area, Oro Valley, and Sierra Vista / Fort Huachuca), and other select locations such as <a href="https://consulting.ky/project-management-training/grand-cayman-project-management-courses/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Grand Cayman</a>.&nbsp; We also provide it on an on-site basis anywhere in the world, and <a href="https://consulting.ky/project-management-training/online-project-management-courses/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">online</a> using live instructors.

<h2>Project Management Fundamentals Course Objectives</h2>

By the end of the course you will be able to :
<ul><li>Understand the language and structure of the Project Management Institute’s Body of Knowledge.</li><li>Discuss the advantages of different life cycle approaches.</li><li>Understand the value of project charter documents.</li><li>Identify and engage stakeholders more effectively.</li><li>Consider the impact of the environment or context in which your projects occur on your planning processes.</li><li>Develop work breakdown structures to better define your project and reduce the likelihood of missed scope.</li><li>Develop network diagrams that model how your project will be executed.</li><li>Schedule your project and identify the critical path.</li><li>Use various tools and reports to improve project communications.</li><li>Add resource and cost information to your plans.</li><li>Run better project status meetings.</li><li>Better estimate your project costs and durations.</li><li>Identify, prioritize, respond to, and manage, project risks.</li><li>Track issues and action items in a more systematic manner.</li><li>Update your project plans on a regular basis.</li><li>Measure how your project is progressing.</li><li>Work with schedule delays and modify your project plan appropriately to minimize their impact.</li></ul>

<h2>Fundamentals of Project Management Course Details</h2>

<ul><li>Length: 24 hours.</li><li>Style: Instructor-led, using PowerPoint presentations, facilitated discussions, individual and group exercises.</li><li>Texts: Participants receive a copy of PMI’s PMBOK® Guide, and a course participant’s manual/binder.</li><li>Format: Live online, interactive.</li><li>Prerequisites:&nbsp; None.</li></ul>

<h2>Project Management Fundamentals Course Content</h2>

<h3>Day One</h3>
<ul><li>What is a Project?</li><li>What is Project Management?</li><li>What’s Driving the Need for Project Management?</li><li>Project Management Institute (<a href="https://www.pmi.org/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">PMI</a>)</li><li>The Project Management Body Of Knowledge (PMBOK Guide®)</li><li>The Ten Knowledge Areas</li><li>The Five Process Groups</li><li>Predictive Project Life Cycles</li><li>Adaptive (Agile) Life Cycles</li><li>Tailoring</li><li>The Role of the Project Manager</li><li>Project Balance</li><li>Organizational Considerations</li><li>The Project Management Office</li><li>The Role of Project Sponsors</li><li>A Simplified Project Management Process</li><li>Project Charters</li></ul>

<h3>Day Two</h3>
<ul><li>Progressive Elaboration</li><li>Stakeholders</li><li>Identify Stakeholders</li><li>Power-Interest Grid</li><li>Stakeholder Management</li><li>Phase Gate Reviews</li><li>Define Project Scope</li><li>Work Breakdown Structures</li><li>Rolling Wave Planning</li><li>WBS Checklist</li><li>Project Resource Management</li><li>Assignment Matrix</li><li>Network Diagrams</li><li>Estimating Durations</li><li>Analogous Estimating</li><li>Parameter Estimating</li><li>3-Point Estimating</li><li>Develop Schedule</li><li>Critical Path Scheduling</li><li>The Importance of Total Float</li><li>Schedule Optimization</li><li>Reporting the Project Schedule</li><li>Gantt Charts</li><li>Estimate Costs</li><li>Common Estimating Themes</li><li>Types of Costs</li><li>Contingency Reserves</li><li>Accuracy of Estimates</li><li>Why do Plans Fail?</li></ul>

<h3>Day Three</h3>
<ul><li>Management Plans</li><li>Baselines</li><li>Project Management Plan</li><li>Successful Status Review Meetings</li><li>Status Meeting Agenda</li><li>Meeting Notes</li><li>Tracking Issues and Action Items</li><li>Control Schedule</li><li>Collecting “Actuals”</li><li>“Actuals” Collection Strategies</li><li>Control Costs</li><li>Cost Tracking</li><li>PMI’s Approach to Quality</li><li>Customer Satisfaction</li><li>Prevention over Inspection</li><li>Management Responsibility</li><li>Quality Management Plan</li><li>What is a Risk ?</li><li>Identify Risks</li><li>Qualitative Risk Analysis</li><li>Plan Risk Responses</li><li>Contingency Plans</li><li>Risk Register</li><li>Monitor Risks</li><li>Change Management</li><li>Project Communication Management</li><li>Close Project or Phase</li><li>Portfolio Management</li><li>Next Steps</li></ul>
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Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations like never seen before in Tucson. Get your tickets now to discover the music of British Rock Legends at Scottish Rite Cathedral Tucson under the gentle glow of candlelight.
This is a tribute concert experience. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by the artist, their estate, or official representatives.
General Info Venue: Scottish Rite Cathedral Tucson Dates and times: select your dates/times directly in the ticket selector Duration: 60 minutes. Doors open 30 minutes before the show. No entry once it starts Age requirement: 8 years old or older. Anyone under the age of 16 must be accompanied by an adult Accessibility: este recinto cumple con la ley ADA View the FAQs for this event here Seating is assigned on a first come first served basis in each zone If you would like to book a private concert or buy regular tickets for a large group (+30 people), click here Check out all the Candlelight concerts in Tucson To treat your friends and family to a Candlelight gift card, click here
Tentative Program Here Comes the Sun - The Beatles The Beatles Blackbird - The Beatles Help! - The Beatles Come Together - The Beatles Yesterday - The Beatles All You Need Is Love - The Beatles Love of My Life - Queen Another One Bites the Dust - Queen I Want to Break Free - Queen We Are the Champions - Queen We Will Rock You - Queen Radio Ga-Ga - Queen Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen
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Candlelight: Tribute to British Rock Legends

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Be prepared to be on your feet. No public water or restrooms are available at the museum, but the park offers fountains and public restrooms (next to the parking lot, by the Craycroft entrance).
Begins and ends at the Fort Lowell Museum.
Cancellation Policy: Cancellations received at least 24 hours in advance of the tour will receive a refund (minus a small transaction fee). Those received less than 24 hours in advance will not.<a href="https://eventvesta.com/events/133701/t/tickets" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">View Tickets &amp; More Info</a>

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This event will be held in the museum patio, a more intimate and shorter evening than last year's milestone event. Musical entertainment and community partners pending. FREE to Tucsonans who enjoy a summer evening.
While the Tucson basin has been inhabited for thousands of years, the formal inception date of the City of Tucson is August 20th, 1775. Today, we use this date to celebrate our rich TucSonorense culture and its many inhabitants. Did you know the name Tucson originates from the native O’odham word “s -cuk ṣon” which means “at the base of the black hill”?<a href="https://eventvesta.com/events/146979/t/tickets" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">View Tickets &amp;&nbsp;More Info</a>

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If you can’t get enough of ABBA, boy do we have THE dance party for you! We are a DJ dance party playing all your favorite ABBA tracks, plus plenty of other disco hits from the 70s &amp; 80's like The Bee Gees, Donna Summer, Cher, &amp; so much more. So honey honey, take-a-chance and you’ll be dancing all night long. Grab tickets, put on your best disco attire, bring your friends, and have the best night of your life!<a href="https://eventvesta.com/events/154385/t/tickets" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">View Tickets &amp; More Info</a>

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**Sarah Sorin – the first female attorney to appear before the U.S. Supreme Court unassisted **Gladys Franklin – active with historic and artistic endeavors in Tucson, she died in the same room she was born in on Main Avenue at 89. **Edith Kitt – Ran the Arizona Historical Society for years **Bettina Steinfeld – wife of Albert Steinfeld, Merchant Prince of the Southwest **Annie Neal Cheyney – had the Cheyney House built on Main Avenue **Atanacia Hughes (pictured here) – married to Sam Hughes at age 13 or so, gave birth to 15 children (pictured above).
***This tour covers 1/4 of a mile in two hours and begins at Café a la C’art at 150 N. Main Ave. It follows the same route as the Mansions of Main Avenue Walking Tour and is a good tour for people who want more information and less walking.<a href="https://eventvesta.com/events/151533/t/tickets" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">View Tickets</a> &amp; More info

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<h2>Who should take this Microsoft Project Best Practices 101 course?</h2>
This course is for anyone who intends to be involved in planning and/or controlling projects using Microsoft Project. (We have courses available for all versions of Microsoft Project.)
<h2>Where is this course offered?</h2>
The Microsoft Project Best Practices 101 course is offered on an open-enrollment basis at our Project Management Education Center in Bellevue/Seattle, WA, (which also serves Kirkland, Redmond, Renton, Everett, Federal Way, and Tacoma), as well as at our Project Management Education Center in Tucson, AZ (which also serves the Greater Phoenix area, Oro Valley, and Sierra Vista / Fort Huachuca), and other select locations such as Grand Cayman.&nbsp; We also provide it on an on-site basis anywhere in the world, and online using live instructors.
<h2>MS Project Best Practices 101 Course Objectives&nbsp;</h2>
By the end of the course you will be able to:
<ul><li>Enter tasks and create a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) to capture the scope of your project</li><li>Work with project calendars</li><li>Link tasks together to create a network diagram that dynamically updates</li><li>Utilize the Timeline view to summarize your schedule</li><li>Use notes and hyperlinks to annotate your data</li><li>Save a baseline and enter project progress info</li><li>Utilize constraints and deadlines</li><li>Format your data and print useful reports that highlight the important information</li><li>Avoid the frustration of many novice users</li></ul>

<h2>MS Project Best Practices 101 Course Detail&nbsp;</h2>
<ul><li>Length: 8 hours.</li><li>Style: This interactive course uses “Step by Step Microsoft Project” by Carl Chatfield, PMP,&nbsp; accompanied by Key Consulting PowerPoint presentations.&nbsp; Participants build projects using sample data, and then develop, and experiment with, their own project data.</li><li>Texts: Participants receive a course participant’s manual, course textbook, and sample files.</li><li>Format: Live online, interactive.</li><li>Prerequisites:&nbsp; None, however we recommend you take Introduction to Project Management, or equivalent, to maximize the value of this course.</li></ul>

<h2>Microsoft Project Best Practices 101 Course Content</h2>
<ul><li>Project management refresher</li><li>Moving around and viewing data</li><li>Creating a project</li><li>Project calendars</li><li>Scheduling modes</li><li>Creating tasks</li><li>Entering durations</li><li>Modeling your Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)</li><li>Creating your Network Diagram</li><li>Adding notes and hyperlinks</li><li>Formatting and printing</li><li>The Timeline view</li><li>Saving a baseline</li><li>Entering basic progress information</li><li>Fine tuning task relationships</li><li>Constraints and deadlines</li><li>Sorting, grouping and filtering</li></ul>
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This 1-day, 8-hour&nbsp; course is presented live in an interactive format. No prior MS Project experience is necessary. Those who complete MS Project Best Practices 101 may wish to go on to take <a href="https://consulting.ky/courses/microsoft-project-best-practices-102/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">MS Project Best Practices 102</a>.

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