13 June - 17 June 2010 (Sun - Thu)
5-day Instructor-led with GSM Project Exercise, 0900 - 1700
Cairo, Egypt

After successfully completing this course, attendees will be able to:

• Understand basic project management terminology
• Understand four P`s of Projects
• Understand the causes of successful and failed projects
• Understand project Planning Concepts
• Apply S.M.A.R.T. (and S.M.A.R.T.E.R) scope definition methodology
• Understand PMI-BOK vs PRINCE2
• Understand PMI Nine-Knowledge Areas of Project Management
• Be familiarised with the basics of defining the project, planning the project, implementing the plan, and completing the project, as it applies to a Cellular roll-out project
• Analyse and apply using a modelled Cellular Roll-out project

Telecoms Project Management is a 5-day course focusing on the basic concepts and terminologies of Project Management with a focus on GSM Roll- out Project. The course delves deeply into what makes projects successful and what causes them to fail, focusing in on the roles and responsibilities of the Project Managers and Project Management Team members.

This course also delves into `Management by Projects`, which is the common methodologies for operating companies to run projects within their corporate operational structure.

Additionally, this course reviews the Project Management Institute`s "Nine Knowledge Areas" identified in the PMI Project Management Book of Knowledge ("PMBOK"), as it applies to telecommunications projects.

This course will include class exercises on Cellular Roll-Out project, focusing on defining the project scope and high-level milestones.

Attendees will benefit from this course because it will enhance their project management skills with a focus on the concepts of project planning in telecommunications cellular roll-out management.

Beneficial if attendees have studied the PMI-BOK and has worked at some level in project management previously.

Attendees who have general project management skills who are now working in the telecommunications industry and wants to improve and refine their project management skills focusing in on telecommunications projects.

Advanced Telecommunications Project Management

Telecommunications Project Management: Outside Plant Project Focus

• Fibre Planning
• Fibre Network Operations - Metro/Long Haul
• Introduction to Optical Access networks and FTTx
• Outside Plant Design: Overview and Fundamentals

Telecommunications Project Management: GSM Roll-out Project Focus

• Introduction to GSM and Cell Planning
• Specialised Site Acquisition and Design

Telecommunications Project Management: 3G/UMTS Roll- out Project Focus

• Introduction to UMTS
• Introduction to CDMA and CDMA Systems Engineering
• Specialised Site Acquisition and Design

Telecommunications Project Management: RF Optimisation Project Focus

• Optimising GSM Networks
• GSM Cell Planning and Network Optimisation
• UMTS Optimisation
• UMTS System Engineering, Indoor Design, and Optimisation
• WCDMA/HSDPA Systems Engineering and Network Optimisation

Telecommunications Project Management: Transmission Project Focus

• ABCs of Telecommunications
• SDH Transmission Systems
• SDH and DWDM Fundamentals
• DWDM and optical Networking

Telecommunications Project Management: Access Network Project Focus

• Understanding IP Telecom: IP, VoIP, and MPLS for Non-Engineers
• Understanding IP-based systems: TCP/IP and Mobile IP
• Deploying High Speed Broadband Technologies
• WiMAX Technical Overview
• WiMAX Technology and Application
• WiMAX for Broadband Wireless Access (BWA)