Project Management Training Course
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Ensure your projects succeed with our bespoke Project Management training courses in Bristol.
Course Description
Our Project Management training courses will help you understand the role of the project manager today and learn the key skills needed for success. During the course attendees will have the opportunity to consider their own situation and develop a personal project management philosophy that works for them and for their business.
What's Included
- Professionally prepared course notes and training materials
- Student-centred Action Matrixes, designed to embed real change back at work
- Training delivery and exercises that can be tailored directly to your needs
- Extra support after the course has finished, in case you have a question
- Signposting to further development opportunities, so that the training impact is longer-lasting in your organisation
Course Customisation
Please note that this course is customisable, so you can focus on learning the project management skills that are most important to you.
Benefits
A successful project should result in change. If this change is to be worthwhile then, as a project manager, you will need to fully understand the need for your project and be skilled in a wide-range of techniques.
The purpose of this course is to ensure project managers understand the rationale for their projects and enable them to apply proven tools and techniques in order to achieve a successful outcome.
Who Is It For?
Anyone who is involved with defining, delivering or managing a project.
Objectives
By the end of the training you will be able to…
- Describe what a project is (and why it needs to be managed).
- Use proven tools to plan and execute a project.
- Follow a structured approach and complete essential project documentation.
- Describe the key roles that stakeholders and the project team play.
Course Content
- What are projects and why do they need managing?
- Explanation of common Project Management terms (ongoing throughout the course).
- Identifying the project management methodology used in your organisation (and why this is important).
- Exploring the context and rationale for undertaking a particular project.
- The importance of identifying stakeholders and key role players at an early stage (including customers, suppliers, bystanders and users).
- The Customer and You – what does your customer expect and how can you manage those expectations?
- Review of typical project management documentation (such as the Project Brief and the Project Initiation Document).
- Identifying outcomes and preparing Product Descriptions for the project deliverables.
- The three key project drivers (and how they help us plan and monitor the project).
- Identifying tasks and forming them into a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS).
- The art of estimating (including the use of contingency buffers).
- Identifying Threats and Managing Risk (including the importance of maintaining the risk log throughout the life of the project).
- Creating and interpreting Gantt and PERT charts (including analysis of the Critical Path).
- Allocating and levelling resources (including common mistakes to avoid).
- The importance of team morale and effective communication when running the project.
- Monitoring progress (and what to do if it’s going badly).
- Introduction to tracking using Earned Value Analysis (EVA).
- Bringing the project to a close and reviewing the lessons learnt.
Find out more in our training brochure
Looking to arrange a group training course?
- We are able to offer competitive pricing schemes for various group sizes.
Scheme
Group size
Price
Per delegate
Scheme 1
Up to 4 delegates
£795 + VAT
£199 per head
Scheme 2
Up to 8 delegates
£995 + VAT
£125 per head
Scheme 3
Up to 12 delegates
£1,250 + VAT
£105 per head
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