Who Should Attend:
- Business Professionals and Managers
- Project Team Members
- Professionals seeking fundamental Project Management skills
- Office Managers & Co-ordinators
Course Objectives
- Recognise the practical importance of employing a structured methodology using proven best practices to manage projects
- Gain an overview of the key concepts and terminology of the Project Management (PM) life cycle and knowledge areas
- Obtain skills to manage projects from start to finish
- Learn how to initiate projects and establish the right organisational structures
- Explore methods for determining project scope and constraints
- Understand the essential steps and tools for successful project planning
- Master tools to control cost/schedule and track deliverables for quality assurance
- Learn the fundamentals of project procurement and contractor management
- Develop Risk Management and Change Control skills and techniques
- Identify how to plan and manage your time for increased productivity
- Gain in-depth knowledge of project management, using real-world case studies related to your industry.
What will you gain?
By the end of this course you will be able to:
- Use proven methodologies to deliver projects on time, to budget and to the quality standards expected in an internal or external project
- Manage each stage of the project life cycle
- Define roles and responsibilities for project stakeholders
- Identify project characteristics
- Define project scope including time, cost and quality constraints
- Perform resource analysis
- Master the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) to build a realistic project schedules, milestones and deliverables
- Employ tools to execute, track, monitor and control your projects effectively
- Manage vendor relationships to maximise positive project outcomes
- Identify, analyse, quantify, mitigate and manage risks to reduce impact
- Manage project change through formal change control processes
- Assess, monitor and control project performance
- Effectively manage stakeholder expectations and communications
- Capture lessons learned for future benefit
- Take the steps to close your projects (and move on to the next).
Course Content
- Introduction to Project Management background and importance
- Overview of PM key concepts
- Understanding What Defines a Project
- Project vs. Programme
- Project Management Life Cycle
- Project Life Cycle vs. Project Management Life Cycle
- Project Organisations
- Functional Organisation
- Projectised Organisation
- Matrix Organisation
- Project Manager Skills and Titles
- The Project Triangle: Viewing Projects in Terms of Time, Cost and Scope
- Project Initiation
- Stakeholders and Stakeholder Management
- Project Charter
- Communications Plan
- Planning and Preparation
- Definition and Planning
- Phases and Processes
- Project directing
- Defining Scope and Deliverables
- Using PERT and Gantt Charts
- Setting milestones
- Establishing realistic objectives
- Getting the Most out of Your Time
- Time Management Fundamentals
- Better planning to make more time for better planning
- Tips and Tricks to being more productive
- Tracking and Control
- Preparing Project Plans and Statement of Works
- Vendor and sub-contract management
- Progress monitoring and reporting
- Network Diagraming
- How to tell if a project is out of control
- Quality Assurance on deliverables
- Change Management
- Managing Meetings
- Milestone reviews
- Post Implementation reviews
- Closing projects effectively
- Earned Value Management
- Risk Management
- Risk Assessment
- Managing the Risks
- Identification of Risks
- Testing & Pilots
- Project Close-out
- Hands-on Exercises, relevant to your industry.
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