The City of Winnipeg is expanding its asset management training with the launch of a new tailor-made internal course, developed and delivered with Red River College.

The training consists of a five-day series exploring the nature of managing projects using the City’s Project Management Manual, a framework that ensures investments in projects, resource allocation, monitoring and evaluation are optimized through project life cycles.

“This new training program will help the City of Winnipeg make important improvements to project management oversight by implementing leading best practise throughout civic departments in investment planning and project management processes,” says Coun. Mike Pagtakhan, Council Liaison for Project Management.

“Not only will it foster a culture of excellence by promoting best practices throughout civic departments, it will help standardize the way the City manages projects.”

The new training is a result of recommendations of the 2014 Winnipeg Police Headquarter Construction Project Audit, which included a mandate to develop and deliver training sessions for City personnel involved with capital projects, in order to improve understanding and consistent application of policy.

An added benefit of the new program is that it qualifies for professional development units for employees holding a Project Management Professional (PMP) designation by the Project Management Institute (PMI). It also qualifies as project management educational training hours, a pre-requisite for employees wishing to attain their PMP designation.