Project Management Overview

Aims

 

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This introductory project management course will provide you with the skills you need to plan and manage successfully, whether you’re introducing a new product or service, implementing the latest initiative or even managing a corporate event. Using a realistic case study, you’ll learn how to balance time, cost, quality and scope, and work through the stages of project initiation, planning, scheduling and reporting.

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Outcomes

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At the completion of this project management course, you should be able to:

 

Use a structured approach, prepare a project plan, incorporate appropriate plans, understand schedules, and understand specific outputs and deliverables for each step of the plan.

 

Define the scope of a project and identify means of controlling changes to the scope.

 

Describe the sources of project risks, and a management approach to the control of these risks.

 

Describe project quality objectives and identify appropriate controls to ensure quality outcomes are achieved.

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Describe processes that can be used to develop ongoing stakeholder commitment to a project, and to manage issues arising from the project’s dependence on external groups.

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Incorporate techniques which ensure commitment to project completion from a project team in a matrix management organisation.

 

Describe methods for timely and accurate reporting of progress against plan.

 

Content

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This project management course covers the following topics:

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Introduction

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• Project Management course approach.

• Project management processes.

• Stages.

• CSFs – typical project problems.

 

Project Initiation

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• Project start-up activities.

• Constraints.

• Managing stakeholders' involvement.

 

Project Scope & Stakeholders

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• Scope definition.

• Scope changes.

• Managing stakeholders' involvement.

 

Planning

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• Work Breakdown Structure.

• Dependencies.

• Estimating.

• Planning process.

• Milestones.

• Schedule development.

• Project budget.

 

Quality & Risk Management​

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• Principles of Quality and Risk Management.

• How to control quality of project deliverables and risks.

 

Project Execution & Implementation

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• Resource plans.

• Project teams.

• Project management skills and training.

• Task delegation.

 

Status reporting and correcting variance to plan

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• How to determine accurate status.

• What to report.

• What actions to take on variances to plan.

 

Managing dependencies and project closure

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• How to ensure that other groups you rely on will deliver as agreed – to time, quality, scope and cost.

 

Review

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• Key course concepts.

• Planned follow-up activities.

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Intended Audience

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This project management course is designed for those who are, or will be, required to manage business projects in which one or more of the following apply:

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The Project Manager or team members are not necessarily full-time on the project.​

 

Projects tend to be self-contained (i.e. without complexity of integration across numerous areas).

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Funding levels are not so extensive as to require more rigorous and formal methods of planning and management.

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