Project Management

DURATION: One Day

AIM

To increase confidence and competence in Project Management.

PROGRAMME OVERVIEW

A practical one-day programme designed to introduce the concepts, methodology and best practice used in Project Management.

CONTENT

• What is project management: project definition
• What can be learnt from past projects?
• What do project managers do?
• Project management framework and strategy: setting project objectives
• Project strategy and options
• Dealing with project uncertainty
• Detailed project planning and work breakdown structures
• Project prioritisation: activity breakdown, Gantt chart analysis, critical path analysis
• Project evaluation: planning a schedule.
• Evaluating implementation difficulty: project progress, monitoring and control
• Managing the dynamics of projects and key stakeholders
• Reporting progress
• Stakeholder management
• Risk and uncertainty management: identifying risk and uncertainty
• Risk reduction
• Contingency planning
• Project review
• Learning and critical success factors
• Action planning.

BENEFITS

By the end of the workshop, participants will be able to:
• Define the key objectives and scope of your project, and diagnose project specific issues
• Develop an effective strategy, plan and breakdown of activities for your own projects
• Define the project critical path and use this information to assist in making planning decisions
• Learn to identify resource and implementation constraints of a project and to set and monitor milestones for progress towards goals
• Identify key risks and uncertainties for projects and propose strategies to deal with these risks
• Identify and anticipate the positions of key stakeholders in the project and become more able to influence them
• Understand the key roles and responsibilities involved in project management, especially for the project manager him/herself

TARGET AUDIENCE

All those who are embarking on project management. This programme is designed to be a one-day programme that provides a sound framework for Project Management. If more in depth skills on people management are required the programme can be extended for another day.

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