Introduction to Project Management
Duration: 2 days
The ability to run a successful project professionally is a valuable transferrable life skill that can enhance your career and opportunities in any industry.
Our Introduction to Project Management course takes a pragmatic approach to managing a project successfully. It looks at the entire project lifecycle and key activities that must be done to give a successful project outcome.
This course is suitable for anyone who is involved in or about to run a project – either as a full-time project leader/manager or as a part of their role.
By the end of the course you will be able to:
- Identify 10 key principles for managing a project successfully
- Apply a common sense project lifecycle to a project regardless of its size or magnitude
- Develop robust project documentation throughout the lifecycle whilst keeping the documents to a minimum
- Identify the expectations of key stakeholders and develop a clear communication plan to engage with them
- Apply a range of planning and scheduling techniques to help manage the project timeline
- Produce realistic estimates to help monitor and control the project costs
- Manage key risks and issues associated throughout the project lifecycle
- Manage changes through a robust change control process
- Manage the Project team through the use of clearly defined Work Packages
- Identify and manage key areas of conflict throughout the lifecycle
- Key characteristics of projects v Business as Usual
- Definition of Programmes and Portfolios
- Project Lifecycles – A structured approach using phases
- Reasons why projects fail
- 10 principles of successful project management
- Analysing the project context / environment
- Stakeholder needs and requirements
- Content of a Business Case
- Differences between Benefits, Success Criteria, Success Factors and Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s)
- Purpose of the Project Brief
- Defining the Scope of a project
- Assigning Project roles and responsibilities
- Product Breakdown structures and Work Breakdown Structures
- Approaches to estimating
- Detailed planning using Gantt charts
- Critical path analysis
- Using project management software – an overview
- Constructing a realistic project budgets
- Resource allocation and optimisation
- Producing a Communication Plan
- Delegating using a Work Package
- Project tracking and reporting
- Managing contractors
- Controlling changes to the project
- Risk and Issues management
- Managing conflict between stakeholders
- Measuring project success
- Capturing Lessons
- Post project review and evaluation
- Benefits Realisation
- Transferring the deliverable into Business as Usual
I would recommend the course to others, it’s a perfect overview to project management and the tools required to get you started. It was engaging, I really enjoyed the interactivity of the course and it was useful to do the example ‘project’ to see how some of the planning tools are used in practice. I found the information on the different types of tracking logs you can use, and the programs behind them really useful. Lovely venue, I liked that the training sessions were small as you get more of a hands on approach.
Victoria, Willis Towers Watson