| The workshop is very practical and interactive and consists of classroom lectures, discussions, individual exercises and group exercises. The course includes modules on: |
Projects and the business
Projects, Programmes and Management, Differentiating success from glorious failure, Stakeholders and Business influences, The Business case and project definition
Project Methodologies and Processes
What is a methodology and how does it help? Prince2,
PMI - the Project Management Book of Knowledge
Developing and refining the plan
Project scope - the Work Breakdown Structure, Identifying the task dependencies, Effort estimating, PERT and critical path analysis, Network analysis, Resource scheduling, What-if analysis, Contingency - your life-saver
Project Resources
The Project Manager, what do they do, what skills required? The team versus the individual, Delegation and
Managing the team
Controlling the Project
Basic administration - minimum requirements for control
Managing the Baseline, Milestones and deadlines, Status Updating, Costs and effort, Managing Risk, Managing Change - the Achilles Heel, Closing the project
Project Reporting
The communications plan, Summary or Detailed reports?
Earned Value Analysis
YOUR INSTRUCTOR: All instructors are practicing Project Managers, with many years of experience managing projects of varying size. |
