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 limited or no project management experience or knowledge and will introduce best practice planning techniques as well as developing project management competencies and skills.
Course Content
- Project Fundamentals
What is a project and what is project management? Where does it fit within the business?
- Strategic View
Project benefits and measuring project success
- Project Integration Management
Project lifecycle design & management, project documentation
- Project Environment
Operations vs projects and projects within organisations
- How Projects Are Structured
Project governance
- Project Approach
Methodologies, waterfall and agile techniques
- Project Initiation
Business Case, kickoff meeting, Project Charter, Scope Statement
- Planning
Planning techniques tools (WBC, PERT, Critical Path), scheduling, resourcing
- Risk Management
Managing risk techniques
- Issues & Change Control
Introduction to managing issues and change control process
- Next steps
Introduction to monitoring and controlling delivery through to closure
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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