Master the essentials of project management; get everything you need to start managing your
own successful projects.
This Session is perfect for seeing big and immediate improvements in your work and
experiencing a whole project from beginning to end
You will learn to:
- Master fundamental project management skills, concepts and techniques
- Link project goals and objectives to clear, compelling stakeholder needs
- Develop work breakdown structures
- Set realistic, measurable objectives and ensure positive results
- Estimate project costs and schedules using simple, proven techniques
- Establish a dependable project control and monitoring system
Course Overview
Managing Projects is an essential foundation course and a great starting point for your
development. Gain the skills, knowledge and tools you need to start running each stage of
the project life-cycle. You will learn to work within organisational and cost constraints
and set goals tied directly to stakeholder needs. Get the most from your team and learn to
utilise project management tools to get work done on time and within budget. Learn a
comprehensive and thorough approach to project management - from the early stages of
defining project requirements - to developing work breakdown structures, project change
control and closeout.
What is covered:
- Introduction to Project Management
- What are "projects"?
- Why project management?
- The project life cycle
- Influences on a project
- Key stakeholders
- Project management process groups
- Project manager responsibilities
- Project Initiation
- Understanding the role of senior management
- Needs Assessment
- Project selection - benefit/cost ratio
- Present value and net present value
- Building SMART objectives
- Developing Requirements
- Project charters
- Project Requirements Document
- Project Planning
- Scope planning
- The work breakdown structure
- Estimating
- Schedule Planning
- Network Diagrams - CPM
- Speeding up the Schedule
- Project Management Planning Software
- Cost Planning
- Responsibility Matrix
- Resource Loading and Levelling
- Risk Planning
- Procurement Planning
- Communication and quality planning
- Project Implementation
- Baselines
- Developing the project team
- Organisations and team structures
- Managing change
- Managing Risk
- Performance reporting
- Reserves
- Assessing and monitoring project performance
- Earned value
- Sunk costs
- Project Closeout
- Scope verification and customer acceptance
- Administrative & contractual closure
- Transferring lessons learned to future project
