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Why Choose this Course?

This course is designed to present the basics of project management with a focus on understanding project management terms, project selection, planning, estimating, scheduling, and earned value management. If you are new to projects or been assigned to projects and need to understand how to manage the project, this is the course for you. This course will also cover the highlights of quality, risk and procurement. You will leave this course with a full understanding of what project management is and how to manage a successful project.

This course will feature:

Review & understanding of common project management practices.
Hands on experience with the project charter, scope statement, & earned value management.
Appraisal of projects using project selection techniques, project chartering & gathering requirements
Understand project management tools & procedures that can be implemented to improve or establish formal project management methodologies

What are the Goals?

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

Understand the fundamentals of project management - the ability to initiate, plan & execute basic controls for a project
Understand the techniques of project planning and how to deliver one
Understand how to define project success using key performance indicators & quality metrics
Identifying risks and understanding the advantages of various types of contracts
Understand how to control, manage and close a project to your customers satisfaction

Who is this Course for?

This course is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:

Those who are actually or potentially involved in projects
Business professionals who currently work on projects or are occasionally assigned to work as project team members in any business work areas.
Those who directly contribute to projects. It is ideal for candidates who are intending to start managing projects soon, need to learn project management skills quickly, or need to know how to effectively select and manage projects.

How will this be Presented?

This course will utilise a variety of proven adult learning techniques to ensure maximum understanding, comprehension and retention of the information presented. The course is highly interactive and is designed with briefings and a central project scenario as the driver for all course learning. Students will complete several elements of project work through assigned roles. Several work products will be created including a Scope statement, WBS, Risk Register, activity list, network diagram and earned value report. There will be open discussion and real world examples with the emphasis on learning by doing.

The Course Content

Day One

Project Management Basics, History, Benefits and Components

Understanding what project management is
Defining project and product life cycles
Understanding Best Practice Project Management
How to Initiate a Project: - How to do it
Managing the project selection process
Writing SMART objectives and business cases
Practical Exercise: Creating SMART objectives
Project Exercise: Project Selection exercises

Day Two

Project Planning, Charters, Work Breakdown Structures and Scope Statements

Developing the project documentation for senior management sign-offs,
Defining the project management
Understand how to collect requirements
Defining the full project scope
Creating and analysing the project with Work Breakdown Structures
Practical Exercise: Writing the Project Charter
Practical Exercise: Gathering Requirements
Practical Exercise: Creating the Work Breakdown Structure
Practical Exercise: Writing the Scope Statement

Day Three

Creating and Managing the Project Schedule and Budget

Understanding what a realistic schedule is
Defining and managing dependencies
How to estimate project durations and costs
Creating and optimizing the project schedule
Presenting your schedule and resource constraints
How to control the cost, schedule and resources
Practical Exercise: Network diagramming practice
Practical Exercise: Create, sequence activities and determine duration estimations
Practical Exercise: Complete analogous, parametric and three-point estimating

Day Four

Planning for Quality, HR, Communications, Risk and Procurement

Defining and controlling project KPI’s / Metrics
Presenting and defining the project resource plan
Developing a communication plan
Managing Virtual Teams
Understanding and reviewing project risk
Managing the project contract against project constraints
Practical Exercise: Create quality project metrics
Practical Exercise: Conduct a project meeting
Practical Exercise: Risk Management project exercise

Day Five

Working, controlling and closing the project

Using project software to track projects
Dealing with project management problems
Project case reviews and discussion
Project Management leadership, communications and meetings best practices
Closing the project including project administration, hand-offs, document updates, and lessons learned
Lessons learned, why, when and what

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