Instructor: Darya Duma

This workshop is for the management level to discuss how to create processes and an environment for project success. Participants will be able to define the important principles and framework of project governance, such as reporting authorities, decision-making and risk management. Roles and responsibilities of the project manager, senior management, and the customer are discussed. This workshop can be combined, condensed or expanded, and therefore can be presented in longer or shorter durations, ranging from a one-hour overview to a full day.

Instructor: Darya Duma

This course is designed to give new project managers, construction team members and support staff an understanding of the essentials to achieve project success. Participants will learn terminology and standards that assist in planning projects and project communications – the sources of most project difficulties. This is an ideal course for field personnel entering management or to kick-off a project team.

Instructor: Darya Duma

For new project managers who need to ramp up quickly to deliver successful construction projects, this course introduces the essential tools of project planning and execution in a contracting environment. Participants practice project management techniques on a simple construction project that is developed through the complete project lifecycle, from initial project proposal and definition, through project implementation and finally to the often neglected project completion phase. Participants will leave this course with the ability to implement a structured process to successfully deliver small- to medium-sized construction projects for their organizations and for their customers.

Instructors: Darya Duma, Richard Worr, Warren Griffin, Bob Mattia, Andy McLauchlin, Gerry Call

This 10-day program is put together with the help of the University of Waterloo and a number of the top trainers in our industry. Divided into two, five-day sessions, The Project Management Course covers such topics as Project Administration, Scheduling, Managing Individual Differences, Safety, Change Orders, Construction Law, Job Costing, Communications and Negotiation, Dispute Avoidance & Claims, Labour Relations, Project Completion and more… To date CEC has trained more than 800 individuals in this, its anchor program.

Instructor: Darya Duma

This course is for project managers, planners, schedulers or project controls staff who want to implement more effective methods for monitoring and controlling their project performance. Although scheduling software will be discussed and used, we do not teach to any specific scheduling software package.

Instructor: Darya Duma

This course is for project managers, planners or project control staff who need to learn how to create and use one of the most valuable project management tools: a project schedule. The two-day course is part one of a five-day program on project scheduling and controls. It prepares participants to create realistic schedules, and understand the baseline, critical path and float. Participants will use a “live” project to create a realistic and achievable schedule. The course links the theory with the practice, so the context of scheduling in software will be discussed but not specifically used.

Instructor: Darya Duma

This two-day course provides participants with hands-on skills to plan and manage project activities using Microsoft Project. This course is unique in that the emphasis is on good scheduling techniques not simply “how to use”. The scheduling techniques are learned through a series of progressive exercises that simulate a real project. At the beginning of each exercise, participants load a new project file that contains all the information correctly entered from the previous exercise. As a result, those with slower typing skills are not left behind. By completion, participants will have fully-defined a project from beginning to end, and will have performed project updates and reporting.