Keep it on Track, Successful Project Management

Course Overview

Keep it on Track, Successful Project Management

Understand the lifecycle of a project, from concept and definition, through to planning, implementation and evaluating the effectiveness of completed projects.

Course Content

Module One - Introduction

• What is a project?
• What is project management?
• The role of a project manager
• Project control variables
• Why do projects fail?
• Achieving project excellence
• The four stage project life cycle

Module Two - Concept and Definition

• Project organisational structures
• The matrix organisation
• The project board
• Roles and responsibilities
• Defining the project objectives
• Feasibility studies
• Creating a business case

Module Three - Planning

• A step by step approach to planning
• Work breakdown structures
• Network planning
• Precedence networks
• Time analysis and the critical path
• Milestones
• Resource planning
• Estimating techniques; time and cost and PERT
• Contingency and risk management
• Identify, quantify and prioritise
• Risk management plans
• Project communication
• Quality planning and agreed deliverables

Module Four - Implementation

• Control and reporting
• Managing and controlling change
• Monitoring earned value

Module Five - Completion and Evaluation

• Concluding the project
• Project review and evaluation