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Durée

2 days

Public

Project Manager, anyone in charge of a project team

Objectif

  • Recognise when it is appropriate to adopt a ‘project’ approach to managing your workload.
  • Apply a simple lifecycle to a project to break it into easy to manage stages.
  • Clearly define your projects to provide real clarity in terms of project scope, roles and responsibilities, and other key factors.
  • Confidently plan, organise and document a project by using a wide variety of tools that add value to the project management process.

Programme

What Is a Project?

  • Defining what we mean by project working and how it differs from the day job
  • Determining the approach (Waterfall or Agile) to managing projects – the project lifecycle.
    Please note: the body of the course is based on the waterfall approach
  • Understanding why projects fail – what to watch out for

Defining a Project

  • Understanding the role of the project manager and other key stakeholders
  • Appreciate the importance of teamwork within the project
  • How to clearly define a project
  • Setting and agreeing objectives, scope and constraints
  • Understanding what questions to ask
  • Recognising the need for project governance
  • Simple risk management tools and techniques available to avoid surprises

Planning a Project

  • Exploring the range of tools and techniques used in planning a project including work breakdown structures, Gantt charts, network diagrams and critical path analysis
  • Determine the key project documentation and data display methods used on a project
  • Scheduling techniques to maximise limited resources
  • How to make time and cost estimates more credible and realistic
  • How to plan for identified risks
  • Defining and delivering against agreed quality expectations
  • Recognise the need for a change management process and version control in a project

Implementing a Project

  • Exploring  the range of key tools and techniques used  to monitor and control a project
  • What impact will changes have on the project?
  • Determine corrective actions to ensure the project remains on track
  • How to communicate the status of a project more effectively

Closing and Reviewing a Project

  • Understanding the need for a controlled close to a project
  • Measuring what actually happened against the plan
  • Learning lessons – both positive and negative
  • Closing down and moving on

Méthodes pédagogiques

This course is focused on exploring the fundamental principles of successful project management and incorporates a number of easy to apply, effective tools and techniques that, when applied in the workplace, will allow the attendees to become more confident and competent in managing a project. A number of easy to use checklists are also included.

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Durée

2 days

Public

Project Manager, anyone in charge of a project team

Objectif

  • Recognise when it is appropriate to adopt a ‘project’ approach to managing your workload.
  • Apply a simple lifecycle to a project to break it into easy to manage stages.
  • Clearly define your projects to provide real clarity in terms of project scope, roles and responsibilities, and other key factors.
  • Confidently plan, organise and document a project by using a wide variety of tools that add value to the project management process.

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