Project Management
Description: Poorly managed projects usually go over the time, exceed budget or fail to meet the clients requirements. This course is designed to equip project managers with the methodology, tools and techniques required to improve the likelihood of success.
Prerequisites:
Participants may be new to Project Management of have some experience in the field but lack a fully structured understanding of the role of a PM in the workplace.
Project Success Requirements:
- The nature of projects
- Project life cycles
- The project management role
- Characteristics of succesful project managers
- Project Management Methodology
Project Goals:
- Analysing and agreeing goals
- Feasibility, alternatives, rough budgets & schedules
- Establishing a baseline
- Agreeing acceptance criteria and the client`s role
- Quality consideration
The Project Environment:
- Defining the project environment
- Agreeing Responsibilities
- Establishing business priorities
- Managing The interfaces (client, third party & internal)
- Meeting the end users
- The importance of project documentation
- Change control
- Organisational Structures
- Project roles, terms of reference and staffing considerations
Key Stages in the Planning Process:
- Agreeing project objectives
- Work breakdown structures and work packages
- Milestone planning
- Activity scheduling
- Gantt charts, etc
- Resource Management, estimating and interactive planning
- Managing risk via containment and contingency
- Networking and Critical Path Analysis
Cost Control and Budgets:
- Setting a workable budget
- Budget monitoring
- Managing cost over-run
Implementation:
- Project reviews and procedures
- Project meetings and presentations
- Progress control techniques
- Report considerations
- Influencing opinion & handling indecision
- Project auditing
- Critical success factors
- Managing conflict
Human Factors of Project Management:
- Human factors that affect project success
- Verbal and non-verbal communication techniques appropriate to projects
- Project image
- The project manager`s other roles
- Setting precedents
- Managing multi-projects
- Establishing personal priorities
Project Completion:
- Acceptance trials
- Project termination
- Transferring ownership & responsibility
- Training users
- Handling success & failure
- A reference for the future
- Project follow-up
- Feedback and analysis