About
Project Management has gone beyond being merely a personal skill set. It is now considered a vital organisational competency. So whether you are charged with increasing your organisation's total project management capability or you are playing a role on a project, you will find this course offering a complete guidance for managing any type of project. The course is designed to help you master the science of project management and to provide you with a solid foundation for the art of project management and leadership.
The bottom line is project management is about applying specific principles to bring in projects on time, within budget, and to specifications. As a result, the key objective of this course is to master planning tools, management techniques, and people skills that will ensure project success.
The course uses both conventional and non-traditional techniques, utilises hands-on case studies and group discussions and provides thorough coverage of concepts, techniques, and relevant case studies.
- Better understanding of project selection decisions
- Improved ability of delegates to plan, schedule and control a project
- Mastering inter-personal skills needed to effectively manage project teams
- Improved ability to develop appropriate performance measures
- A wider choice of project planning techniques
- Develop an understanding of project selection methods
- Gain practical tips, advice and insight from an experienced project manager
- Examine simple and advanced project planning techniques
- Improve understanding of incorporating risk in project planning
- Review best practice in project planning and control
- Planning theory and application
- Risk analysis & management
- Cost estimating
- Budgeting
- Performance management
- Project progress reporting
Day One : The World of Project Management
- Project lifecycle model
- Classic and modern project constraints and parameters
- The concept of project management maturity
- Selecting projects to meet organizational goals
- Aggregating projects into programmes and portfolios
- Establishing a project support office
- Considering and confronting uncertainty in project selection decisions
- Project data, information and knowledge management
- The art, science and practice of project management
- Case Studies and Group Exercises
Day Two : Project Planning, Scheduling and Budgeting
- Project plan vs. Project planning
- Strategic, tactical and operational planning
- The contents of a project plan
- Level of detail in scheduling
- Network logic and dependency analysis
- Project uncertainty and risk management
- Introducing uncertainty in planning
- Fundamentals of budgeting & cost control
- Methods of budgeting
- Improving cost estimates
- Best practices of project planning, scheduling and budgeting
- Case Studies and Group Exercises
Day Three : Project Resourcing, Monitoring and Control
- Resource allocation
- Expediting a project
- Allocating scarce resources to projects
- The Critical Chain approach
- Designing the monitoring cycle
- Performance indicators and feedback mechanisms
- Earned value management
- Designing the change-control system
- Proactive management and plan updating
- Case Studies and Group Exercises
Day Four : The Project Manager’s Roles and Responsibilities
- Selection of the Project Manager
- Project Team-building and empowerment
- Team management challenges
- Delegating with confidence
- Communication within the project team
- Project team leadership
- Multidisciplinary teams
- Conflict handling
- Best practices of people-based project management
- Case Studies and Group Exercises
Day Five : Project Evaluation, Reporting, Closure and Hand-over
- Evaluation criteria
- Project auditing
- Project review meetings
- Analysing project performance
- Progress reports and records
- Determinants of project success
- Successful project hand-over
- Lessons learned and creating learning culture
- Best practices of project evaluation, reporting and closure
Training Methodology
Pathways Training and consulting adopts the newest techniques of human resources Training and consulting and, with the following:
- Theoretical lectures are delivered via PowerPoint and visual displays (videos and short films)
- Making scientific evaluation to the trainee (before and after)
- Brainstorming and role-playing
- Using case studies related to the scientific material being delivered and the trainees' work.
- The participants get the scientific and practical material printed and on CDs and Flash memories.
- Preparing records and reports of the participants' attendance and results, with a general evaluation of the training program.
- A group of the best trainers and experts in all fields and specialties professionally prepares the scientific material.
- After finishing the course, the participants get certificates of attendance signed, certified, and issued by pathways Training and consulting.
- Our training programs start at 9:00 o'clock in the morning and end at 2:00 in the afternoon, with snack buffet during the lectures.
- Providing a lunch buffet during the training program period, with organizing a lunch party on the training program final day for taking some photos and certificate awarding.
