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Project Management training courses

Successful projects are managed by successful project managers and experienced and skilled project mangers are in great demand. While experience takes time, you can learn the tips and tricks, the tools and methods, the procedures and controls to manage your projects.

These courses are unique in that many of the topics we cover are based on learning competencies developed by the IT Industry Training Advisory Board and are recognised by the industry as essential skills for a project manger.

These competencies are based on the Project Management Institute's Body of Knowledge.

In addition we have developed procedures and check lists that incorporate the PRINCE® methodology.

PRINCE®, which stands for Projects in a controlled Environment, is a registered trademark of CCTA. It is a process-based approach to project management and is the UK’s de facto standard for project management.

We have two courses that relate to project management skills:

1. Project Initiation

2. Project Management

These courses were originally designed with case studies from IT projects but they have been tailored to suit any type of business project.

The benefits:

Project Initiation, attend this course if you want to -

·        Produce project plans that are more likely to be accepted

·        Identify critical issues before they become a problem

·        Create more accurate initial estimates

·        Define project scope so all involved are aware of their responsibilities

·        Identify project risks and carry out an impact analysis

Project Management, attend this course if you want to –

·        Identify what your critical success factors should be

·        Develop workable plans

·        Allocate and control work and tasks to ensure project success

·        Monitor and control project progress

·        Maintain project quality.

Attend both courses to obtain comprehensive project management skills.

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Course Outlines

Project Initiation – the key to success (3 Days)

Many projects are doomed to fail before they even start because they are not effectively thought through and organised! Use the skills that you discover in this seminar and your future project will have a better start in life and a greater chance of succeeding.

Introduction

·        Identifying project issues

·        Project management roles

·        Roles and responsibilities

Project strategy supports business goals

·        Establish the basis for fitting project to goals

·        Develop project goals and objectives in light of the strategy

·        Determine best solutions

·        Prepare a strategy report

Project Scope Management

·        Define the scope of the project

·        Carry out a situation Analysis

·        Develop scope control mechanisms

·        Project objectives and critical success factors

Project Risk Management

·        Identifying Project Risks

·        Methods of controlling risks

·        Risk management

·        Impact analysis

Developing business cases

·        Benefits analysis, tangible versus intangible

·        Alternative cost/benefit techniques

·        Outlining responsibilities and business process changes

·        Obtaining management buy in

·        Lies, damn lies and business cases

Project Planning

·        Planning goals and objectives

·        Developing the plan

·        Milestones and work breakdown

·        Estimating

·        Scheduling, charts and critical paths

·        Resources in-house and contractors

Project Cost Management

·        Develop project budget

·        Payback and Net Present Value calculations

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Project Management – staying on track (2 Days)

Your job is to bring the project in, on time, within budget and so that everyone is happy! It’s a tall order but this seminar will show you the tools and techniques to achieve this “mission impossible”.

Introduction

·        Project manager’s roles and responsibilities

·        Process versus management

·        Impact of pre-project decisions

·        The baseline plan

Planning for the life of the project

·        Short term and long term plans

·        Making estimates more accurate

·        Revisiting requirements and goals

Project Cost Management

·        Monitoring project costs

·        Finalising costs and budgets

Guiding the Project

·        Integrating Project Management functions

·        Coordinating the project

·        Controlling the project through the phases

Keeping to the time frame

·        Establishing the project schedule

·        Implementing the schedule

·        Reviewing time management

Managing project communications

·        Communications planning

·        Management Information activities

·        Providing project information

·        Assessing communication outcomes

·        Project Offices

Critical Success factors for the project manager.

·        What to focus attention on

·        Customer relationships

·        Change management

·        The impossible project

Quality Management

·        Quality planning

·        Implementing Quality

·        Continuous improvement process

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Program details

You will be supplied with checklists, forms and most importantly, practical methodologies and tools that can be applied in the office.

You will also be able to network with other Project Managers and learn from their experiences. You are also encouraged to maintain communication with us after the seminar is completed so your education and skills continue to grow into the future.

The seminar covers practical issues applicable to all types and size of projects. You will gain skills through a mixture of presentation, discussion sessions, quick quizzes, and group or individual case studies.

These courses provide you with what you need to become an effective project manger no matter what stage of the project you are involved in. For convenience we have separated the Initiation activities from the project production phases.

Who should attend?

Project managers and those managers responsible for projects

Persons moving to a project management role

Engineers and technicians responsible for projects

Consultants and contractors who have project management responsibility

Other professionals who want to mange projects more effectively

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