Introduction to Project Management training course

Benefits

• You'll learn the language and principles of project management
• You'll learn basic project management skills and techniques in one day
• You'll boost your ability to work as part of a project team
• You'll gain practical advice and tips from an experienced project manager

Who should attend?

• People with little or no experience of project management
• People who intend to work on a project or intend to manage a project soon
• People who need to learn project management skills quickly
• People who need to know how to effectively manage projects
• People who can only attend a one day project management course

Objectives

• To gain an understanding and basic awareness of what project management comprises and how projects differ from normal work activities

Course Includes

• Instructor led tuition from an experienced project manager and trainer
• Individual and group exercises
• Delegate pack consisting of: course notes, case study and exercises and FREE CD containing project management templates
• Certificate of training course attendance
• Lunch, refreshments

Duration

• 1 day

Course content

Terminology
You'll become familiar with common terminology.
What is a Project?
You'll learn the essential characteristics of all projects during this project management training.
Project manager
You'll learn what makes a good Project Manager and which things are vital to successful outcomes.
Life-cycle
You'll learn to perform a breakdown into separate phases and learn what needs to be done in each phase.
What are the project objectives?
You'll learn how to identify objectives which align with business goals.
Scope
You'll learn why defining the scope early means more chance of success later.
Stakeholder Analysis
You'll learn the importance of identifying and managing stakeholders throughout the lifecycle and learn how to conduct stakeholder analysis.
Work breakdown
You'll practise some common techniques such as creating Work Breakdown Structures to identify and plan the work.
Roles & Responsibilities
You'll learn how to identify the roles and responsibilities of your team members.
Estimating
Estimation is a pitfall that many methods fail to overcome. You'll learn effective ways of estimating work.
Scheduling
You'll learn to perform effective scheduling using Gantt charts as a key planning technique.
Critical Path Analysis
You'll learn how to apply the critical path technique to help you deliver on time.
Budgeting
You'll learn how budgeting is performed throughout the project lifecycle.
Planning
Learn how to write a plan that will describe the way you intend to achieve the desired outcomes.
Baselines
You'll learn why baselines are critical for success and learn how to apply baselines to your plans.
Project Tracking
You will learn what things you will need to track in order to keep on course for success.
Reporting
Learn how effective reports can make the difference to enable you to track effectively.
Change Management
You will learn the best way to manage change without jeopardising your chance of success.
Risk Management
You'll learn some key risk management techniques to help you avoid failure. If you want to know "how do I write a risk management plan?" then we'll teach you.
Project Success
An understanding of why best practices are essential to improve the chances of delivering successfully.
Learning Lessons
You'll learn how to improve your project management practices from one project to the next to achieve ongoing project management improvement.

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