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Core Essential Project Management

Managing Projects

Master the essentials of project management; get everything you need to start managing your own successful projects.

This Course is Perfect for:

  • Seeing big and immediate improvements in your work
  • Experiencing a whole project from beginning to end

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You Will Learn to:

  • Master fundamental project management skills, concepts and techniques
  • Link project goals and objectives to clear, compelling stakeholder needs
  • Develop work breakdown structures
  • Set realistic, measurable objectives and ensure positive results
  • Estimate project costs and schedules using simple, proven techniques
  • Establish a dependable project control and monitoring system

Course Overview

Managing Projects is an essential foundation course and a great starting point for your development. Gain the skills, knowledge and tools you need to start running each stage of the project life-cycle. You will learn to work within organisational and cost constraints and set goals tied directly to stakeholder needs. Get the most from your team and learn to utilise project management tools to get work done on time and within budget. Learn a comprehensive and thorough approach to project management - from the early stages of defining project requirements - to developing work breakdown structures, project change control and closeout.

Course Topics

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  1. Introduction to Project Management
    1. What are "projects"?
    2. Why project management?
    3. The project life cycle
    4. Influences on a project
    5. Key stakeholders
    6. Project management process groups
    7. Project manager responsibilities
  2. Project Initiation
    1. Understanding the role of senior management
    2. Needs Assessment
    3. Project selection - benefit/cost ratio
    4. Present value and net present value
    5. Building SMART objectives
      • Specific
      • Measurable
      • Agreed to
      • Realistic
      • Time-constrained
    6. Developing Requirements
    7. Project charters
    8. Project Requirements Document
  3. Project Planning
    1. Scope planning
    2. The work breakdown structure
    3. Estimating
    4. Schedule Planning
    5. Network Diagrams - CPM
    6. Speeding up the Schedule
    7. Project Management Planning Software
    8. Cost Planning
    9. Responsibility Matrix
    10. Resource Loading and Levelling
    11. Risk Planning
    12. Procurement Planning
    13. Communication and quality planning
  4. Project Implementation
    1. Baselines
    2. Developing the project team
    3. Organisations and team structures
    4. Managing change
    5. Managing Risk
    6. Performance reporting
    7. Reserves
    8. Assessing and monitoring project performance
    9. Earned value
    10. Sunk costs
  5. Project Closeout
    1. Scope verification and customer acceptance
    2. Administrative and contractual closure
    3. Transferring lessons learned to future project

“Great Content. Useful tools and tips/tricks. Great setting, sitting in groups, changing groups was an excellent way of meeting most people on the course”

Joanne Inaba,
Product Systems Development Manager, Blockbuster International

  
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Public Course Information

Duration: 3 days
Professional Development Units (PDUs): 22.5
Fee: £1495 excl. VAT

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E-Training Course Information

Course Code: MPS520
Access: 42 days
Professional Development Units (PDUs): 28
Fee: £795 excl. VAT

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