Project Management Essentials course

• What a business case is
• The importance of identifying and managing stakeholders
• To establish vision and direction, to align others to a common purpose
• Essential techniques such as configuration management, critical path analysis
• To perform effective scheduling using Gantt charts
• To plan the communications required to keep all stakeholders informed
• The best ways to manage change without jeopardizing your project
• Key risk management techniques to help you avoid failure
• How to improve your project management practices in future
• How to use critical path analysis to optimise your timelines and protect your project deadline
• About team dynamics and how to nurture a project team aligned to the project
• Important considerations for project leadership and explore what your team needs from you as a leader
• Different types of influencing powers in organisations and how to harness your ability to influence without authority.

Curriculum

Project Management Essentials

This Project Management Essentials course covers the following topics:

• Project and project management terminology
• What a project manager does
• Common project management processes
• Project life cycle
• How projects relate to business as usual
• Project planning
• Business case
• Managing stakeholders
• Project vision and direction
• Configuration management
• Critical path analysis
• Scheduling using Gantt charts
• Communication planning
• Managing change
• Managing risk
• Improving project management practices
• Optimising timelines and protecting project deadlines
• Team dynamics and nurturing a project team
• Project leadership
• Influencing others.