Project Management Skills

This 2 day course is ideal for anyone wanting an introduction and good overview of Project Management processes and techniques to apply to a Project environment. This course will provide you with many tools and techniques that can be quickly applied and mastered to ensure that your Project Management is efficient and effective.

This course is aimed at Project Team members or Project Managers who have worked or are currently working in a Project environment.

Delegates will gain an understanding into the Project Management Process by using the tools and techniques in a workshop style course.

• Define a project
• Create a business case and project definition document for approval
• Create a Project Plan 
• Place controls for monitoring the progress, change and issues on the project
• Understand how to close down a Project

Content

Where projects fit within the organization

• What a project is
• Projects need a supportive environment
• The sponsor?s role
• How do we know we?re making a good investment? ? the Business Case

Project strategy and plan for its execution

• How will success be measured?
• Spotting the supporters and the blockers
• Breaking the project up into manageable chunks ? the project life-cycle
• The plan, the plan, the plan!
• Managing risk
• Meeting the customer?s requirements

Executing the strategy

• What?s included and what?s not ? scope management
• When can we do it by? ? scheduling
• Have we got the right people?
• Setting up the budget
• Controlling changes to the agreed scope
• Reporting and information management
• Project reviews
• Capturing and dealing with issues

Techniques to support the project?s work

• Estimating ? is it realistic?
• Knowing where the stuff is and that it will work together? configuration management

Handover and closeout

• What?s included and what?s not ? scope management
• When can we do it by? ? scheduling
• Have we got the right people?

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Project Management Services

• Aligning your projects to the organisation?s strategy
• Setting up organizational structures for lasting project and programme success
• Assisting in creation of local best practice project and programme processes
• Defining training needs and how the needs can be met
• Delivering training
• Performing project and programme audits
• Supporting the definition of benefits and their subsequent modelling, tracking and realisation

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