Course Overview
Organisations engaged in projects require people highly skilled in project management techniques to ensure project success. It is essential that those people responsible for project delivery have the requisite technical skills and competencies to enable success within a dynamic business environment.
This one day course is aimed at delegates with some project management experience or understanding and will introduce best practice techniques as well as developing project management competencies and skills.
Course Content
- Strategic general issues
What is a project and what is project management? Where does it fit within the business? - Project environment
Definition of a project, a programme and portfolio management - Business change
Delivering business change through projects - Strategic view
Project success criteria, project management plan, risks & issues, quality management, health, safety and environment - Critical issues
Why projects fail - Organisational issues
Life cycle and management, project organisation and roles and responsibility - Commercial issues
Project appraisal (DCF, etc.), business case, financial management, procurement, legal awareness - Technical issues
Requirements, quality and change control, planning techniques, estimating, configuration management, modelling and testing - Control issues
Scope management, scheduling/phasing, costing and resourcing, earned value management, managing delivery - Project tools/methods
PRINCE2, SDLC, Agile, PMI/APMP (body of knowledge) - Project closure
Handover to operations
Course Benefits
The course is non-examined and will make use of a combination of lectures, case studies and in-class exercises. It will establish a useful knowledge base should you wish to proceed on to professional level qualifications such as APM, PMI, etc.
Next Steps
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