Managing Projects

Master the essentials of project management; get everything you need to start managing your own successful projects.

This Course is Perfect for:

• Seeing big and immediate improvements in your work
• 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

Get a solid understanding of project management methods with this comprehensive introductory course. Gain practical experience in proven project management techniques and discover a wealth of valuable, flexible tools that you can use immediately to ensure the success of any project in any type of organisation.

You'll learn project management skills through case studies, hands-on exercises and a broad array of practical experiences that can immediately be applied to your job. This approach yields a comprehensive project management experience, including the early stages of defi ning project requirements, developing work breakdown structures, project change control and closeout.

Course Topics

1. Introduction to Project Management
   1. What are "projects"?
   2. Why project management?
   3. The project life cycle
   4. Influences on a project
   5. Key stakeholders
   6. Project management process groups
   7. Project manager responsibilities
2. Project Initiation
   1. Understanding the role of senior management
   2. Needs Assessment
   3. Project selection - benefit/cost ratio
   4. Present value and net present value
   5. Building SMART objectives
      • Specific
      • Measurable
      • Agreed to
      • Realistic
      • Time-constrained
   6. Developing Requirements
   7. Project charters
   8. Project Requirements Document
3. Project Planning
   1. Scope planning
   2. The work breakdown structure
   3. Estimating
   4. Schedule Planning
   5. Network Diagrams - CPM
   6. Speeding up the Schedule
   7. Project Management Planning Software
   8. Cost Planning
   9. Responsibility Matrix
   10. Resource Loading and Levelling
   11. Risk Planning
   12. Procurement Planning
   13. Communication and quality planning
4. Project Implementation
   1. Baselines
   2. Developing the project team
   3. Organisations and team structures
   4. Managing change
   5. Managing Risk
   6. Performance reporting
   7. Reserves
   8. Assessing and monitoring project performance
   9. Earned value
   10. Sunk costs
5. Project Closeout
   1. Scope verification and customer acceptance
   2. Administrative and contractual closure
   3. Transferring lessons learned to future project