Managing projects effectively requires a wide of
skills—planning, organisation, communication, motivating the team,
understanding stakeholders. The list seems to be never ending this
five day training course covers all of the critical skills required
of managers. It is based on a simple project cycle of Project
Selection, Initiation, Planning, Execution and Close. This simple
project cycle is reinforced by sessions on Generic Project Skills
and Tools on day four, and on day five, consideration of the people
dimension both in terms of the team and the project stakeholders. A
single case study will flow through the five days of training
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| Objectives |
At the end of the five day programme delegates
will:
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Understand the
fundamentals of Project Management and the Project
Lifecycle
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Understand Project
Roles, Responsibilities and
Governance
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Develop and analyse
project plans using a number of different techniques
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Identify and manage
risks using different approaches
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Establish a project
change management process
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Manage Project Reviews,
Reporting and Controls
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Manage Project Quality
and
Acceptance
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Understand how to manage
and motivate a Project Team and apply a number of generic Team
Working
Tools
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Manage Project Benefits
through to delivery.
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Understand how people
react to change and the key aspects of the Change Management
process
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Understand the pro’s and
con’s of a number of the widely used Project Management
Methodologies
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Course
Content |
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1 |
Day 2 |
Day
3 |
Day
4 |
Day
5 |
Introduction |
Governance |
Execution |
Project
Skills |
Project
Team |
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What is Project Management? |
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Programmes? |
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Balancing Cost, Quality and Time |
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Project Lifecycle |
Project Selection |
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Project Brief |
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High-level Business
Case |
Project Initiation |
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Goals &
Objectives |
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Project Scope |
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Identifying Stakeholders |
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Deliverables |
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Cost and Benefit Analysis |
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Project Repository and Project Log |
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Project Kick-off meeting |
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Roles and responsibilities |
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Quality Assurance |
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RACI |
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Phase / Toll Gates |
Planning |
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Work Breakdown Structure(WBS) |
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Estimating and Contingencies |
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Resource and Time Schedules |
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Gantt charts |
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PERT Charts
Critical Path Analysis |
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Milestones |
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Dependencies
Resources |
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Optimising the plan |
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Project Budget |
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Communication Plan |
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Project Meetings |
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Reporting & Controls |
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Communications |
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Analysing Project Performance |
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Controlling Project Costs |
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Change Control |
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Time Management |
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Quality Management |
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Quality Principles (TQM, Prince II, etc) |
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Defining Project Quality |
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Project Quality Plan |
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Quality Reviews |
Project Close |
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Acceptance criteria and process |
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Handover |
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Post Project Review |
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Risk Analysis |
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FMEA |
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Team Decision Making |
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Team Problem Solving |
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Team Priority Setting |
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enefits Management and Map |
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Benefits Measures & Targets |
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Benefits Tracking |
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Managing Third Parties |
Methodologies |
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Prince II |
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PMI – PMBOK |
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ISO |
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BS 6079-1 |
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Other |
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Selecting the Team |
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Ground Rules |
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Forming-Norming-Storming-Performing |
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Team Roles – Belbin Analysis |
Managing People Change |
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How people react to change |
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Case for Change |
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Stakeholder Analysis |
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Change Principles |
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Planning People Change |
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Communication |
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Assessing Readiness
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| Who should attend? |
This 5 day course is for in-company delivery and is for managers,
supervisors, team leaders and team members who want to significantly
improve their project management skills so that they can apply them
to projects that they need to manage in the immediate future.
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