Project Management Training
Introduction
Project management is the discipline of planning, organising, securing and managing resources to bring about the successful completion of specific project goals and objectives.
Our Project Management Training is focussed on providing the support, skills, and knowledge for delegates to deliver excellence in project management. Our expert team of training consultants are all fully qualified experienced project management practitioners who can provide the advice and know-how to make a real difference to your projects.
Overview
This highly practical course provides all the essential skills, tools and techniques that are needed to support the project management role. The course concentrates on the practical techniques that can be applied directly to the workplace.
This course is focused on exploring the fundamental principles of successful project management and incorporates a number of easy to apply, effective tools and techniques that, when applied in the workplace, will allow the delegates to become more confident and competent in managing a project.
Who should attend
Suitable for individuals who manage projects and/or lack any formal training in the discipline of project management, or managers who are looking to adopt a project approach to managing work.
This course will benefit anyone who project manages, in particular:
- First Time Managers
- Supervisors
- Team Leaders
- Sales Managers
- HR Professionals
- Project Managers
- Change Managers
- New Managers
- Staff Looking To Progress Into A Management Position
Course Content
By the end of this course you will be able to:
- Recognise when it is appropriate to adopt a 'project' approach to managing your workload.
- Apply a simple life cycle to a project to break it into easy to manage stages.
- Clearly define your projects to provide real clarity in terms of project scope, roles and responsibilities and other key factors.
- Confidently plan, organise and document a project by using a wide variety of tools that add value to the project management process.
- Identify and manage risks proactively to minimise the impact of any deviations from the original plan.
- Become more effective in monitoring and controlling the project work, change requests and resourcing pressures by using best practice processes and techniques.
- Understand what lessons can be learnt from managing work using a project approach.
- Tailor your approach to projects of varying size and complexity.
This course covers the following:
What is a Project?
- Defining what we mean by project working and how it differs from the day job
- Determining a structured approach to managing projects - the project life cycle
- Understanding why projects fail - what to watch out for
Defining a Project
- Understanding the role of the project manager and other key stakeholders
- Appreciate the importance of team working within the project
- How to clearly define a project
- Setting and agreeing objectives, scope and constraints
- Understanding what questions to ask
- Recognising the need for project governance
- Simple risk management tools and techniques available to avoid surprises
Planning a Project
- Exploring tools and techniques used in planning a project including Work Breakdown Structures,
- Gantt Charts, Network Diagrams and Critical Path Analysis
- Determine the key project documentation and data display methods used on a project
- Scheduling techniques to maximise limited resources
- How to make time and cost estimates more credible and realistic
- How to plan for identified risks
- Defining and delivering against agreed quality expectations
- Recognise the need for a change management process and version control in a project
Implementing a Project
- How to monitor, track and control activities
- What impact will changes have on the project?
- Determine corrective actions to ensure the project remains on track
- How to communicate the status of a project more effectively
Closing and Reviewing a Project
- Understanding the need for a controlled close to a project
- Measuring what actually happened against the plan
- Learning lessons - both positive and negative
- Closing down and moving on
Cost
This one day training course can be delivered "in house" to your organisation network or partnership at the rate of just £749 per day.
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To discuss this course further please contact us on 0845 299 7144 or email learning@cspacademy.ac.uk.
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