Project Management Essentials

Learning outcomes

This Project Management Essentials training provides students with some core project management skills. Students will learn:

• Common terminology used on projects
• What a project manager does and why
• Common project management processes and who is responsible
• How projects relate to business as usual
• The importance of good planning
• 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