Project Management: Advancing your Skills (2 day)

Course Overview

This clearly structured course provides an insight into the tools and methodologies essential for analysing projects of all types, in order to plan and manage them to a high degree of accuracy. This course is ideal for those who require solid project management skills but are not in a position to undertake a formal qualification such as PRINCE2

Audience

Those with some project management experience who want to develop their skills to manage large or complex projects

Skills Gained

Delegates will learn:

• Practical tools to ensure that the project is completed as planned
• The skills to handle issues that arise during the project to reduce their impact on the project objectives
• New methods to identify and assess project risks, costs and requirements

Course Outline

The key to a successful project:

• Planning, communication and commitment.
• Using a 'standard' methodology - an overview of the PRINCE2 and PMI Bok project methodologies

Managing the risk:

• A risk management culture.
• Proactive risk management.
• Effective use of Risk Logs.
• Objective evaluation of project risks.
• Impact of risk to the project and to the business.
• Planning effective responses

The project environment:

• The project team and the wider project environment.
• Organisational structure.
• Defining project team roles in matrix organisations.
• Commitment register

Financial control:

• 3 point estimating.
• Earned Value Analysis

Focusing on customer needs:

• Defining, understanding and agreeing 'deliverables'.
• Getting 'customer' commitment

Stage management of the project:

• Managing the project Stage by Stage with customer approval.
• Accurate record keeping.
• Eliminating the gap between desired outcome and actual outcomes.
• Looking forward.
• Managing change.
• Handling project issues

Closing the project:

• Clean end to a project.
• Follow-on activities.
• Post-project audit and post-project appraisal.
• Lessons learned Log.
• Survival tips for project managers

Project Management: Advancing your Skills (2 day) / PMAS-2