Project Management 2
Overview
This course is aimed at those who have some experience of project management and who wish to extend their knowledge and skills further. It assumes attendees have a basic understanding of project management principles.
Key Outcomes
Delegates should leave the course with the confidence to apply key Project Management principles. Considerable practice will be given in all the techniques covered and attendees will be encouraged to develop an action plan describing how they intend to apply the principles once back at work.
Duration
2 days
Content
- Review of project management terminology
- Review of PRINCE methodology
- The importance of project evaluation and the feasibility study
- Preparing a specification for the ‘deliverables’
- Performing a risk analysis and maintaining the risk log
- Understanding the key project management ‘roles’
- Identifying and managing customers, suppliers and stakeholders
- Preparing a Project Brief and Project Initiation Document, (PID)
- Creating a Work Breakdown Structure
- The art of estimating – including the use of contingency ‘buffers’
- Interpreting Gantt and PERT charts – including the critical path
- Allocating resources and avoiding common pitfalls
- Reasons for common project ‘accidents’
- Running the project – teamwork, motivation and leadership issues
- The importance of tracking the project
- Introduction to earned value analysis, (EVA)
- Project closure and recording the lessons learnt
- Ongoing demonstrations of Microsoft Project
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