Project Management

  2 Days


The aims of this two day practical workshop are to provide participants with: access to project management terminology; an understanding of the structure and processes to follow to manage projects of various sizes and importance successfully; practice at using some of the project management tools and techniques; and confidence to tackle the project manager’s role.

Objectives:

On completion of the workshop, participants will be able to:

  • Describe the overall structure of an effectively managed project
  • Explain the purpose and format of the business case
  • Utilise a variety of tools to help define a project so that it may be communicated to others
  • Define project specific objectives
  • Plan the activities required to achieve the objectives
  • Utilise a variety of ways of task estimating
  • Develop project schedules, communication plans and quality plans
  • Use dependency charts and critical path analysis to plan and monitor progress of a project
  • Carry out both a risk and opportunity analysis
  • Identify what elements of a project to monitor during the implementation phase and how
  • Sustain commitment of the project team
  • Evaluate the success of the project and conduct a post project review.

Content: 


  •  Introduction
    • What is a Project?
    • Why Projects Fail
    • Generic Project Life Cycle
    • Project Steps and Gates
    • The Business Case
  • The Start-Up Phase
    • Understanding the Drivers
    • Setting Objectives and Scope
    • Issues of Equality and Diversity
    • The Project Structure
    • Risk Management
    • Stakeholder Management
    • The Project Brief
  • The Planning Phase
    • Effective Planning
    • Product Based Planning
    • Estimating Time and Resources
    • Developing a Schedule
    • Communication Plan
    • Quality Plan
  • The Project Initiation Document
  • The Implementation Phase
    • Keeping to Plan
    • Critical Path Analysis
    • Potential Problem Analysis
    • Potential opportunity Analysis
    • Monitoring Progress
    • Managing Changes
    • Sustaining Commitment
  • Closure and Review Phase
    • Post Project Review
  • Action Planning