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The Project-Buying Environment

Course Cost £295 +VAT
Duration 1 DAY
  • Overview of project management tools and techniques for managing activities and improving performance awareness.
  • Target audience: procurement staff in project-buying environments.
  • Course covers project definition, governance, financing, planning, workstreams, reporting, and stakeholder management.
  • Includes training on project planning tools, Gantt charts, Pert charts, and Critical Path Analysis.
  • Available in various locations in the UK, Ghana, Nigeria, and Qatar.

Overview

The Project Buying Training course aims to provide an overview of project management issues and tools for procurement staff. It covers project definition, governance, financing, planning, workstreams, progress reporting, stakeholder management, and the use of project management tools like Gantt charts and Critical Path Analysis. The course objectives include improving awareness of tracking activities and measuring performance for internal customers. The course is designed for procurement staff in project-buying environments and is offered in various locations in the UK, Ghana, Nigeria, and Qatar.

Who should attend

Procurement Staff

Course Content

Project Buying Training

Course Running Order

Definition of a project
Project governance structures
Project financing approaches

Setting up projects
The project plan
Setting up workstreams
Progress reporting techniques
Communications management
Managing stakeholders

Project Management Tools
Project planning tools
Gannt charts
Pert CHARTS
Critical Path Analysis
Using Microsoft project – the basics

Course objectives

To provide delegates with an overview of commonly issues and tools and techniques used by project management teams in managing their activities. To improve their awareness of how their internal customer is tracking their activities and measuring their performance.

Who should attend?

All procurement staff involved in a project-buying environment.

Course duration: 1 Day

Project Buying Training Inverness, Aberdeen, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dunfermline and other sites throughout the UK including onsite closed company courses are available.

Project Buying Training in Ghana, Nigeria and Qatar is also available.

Who Should Attend

Procurement Staff
Course Cost £295 +VAT
Duration 1 DAY

Experts in Construction and Infrastructure Training

1000+

Training courses available

250000+

Course hours completed

50+

Expert trainers

CITB, APS, IEMA

Accreditation training centres

12

Accreditations

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The trainers knowledge was excellent and I liked his examples and how he could relate them to every day relatable examples that we could all understand. Coming from different industries and sectors his examples were a common ground. It was handled very well virtually and the engagement worked with his questioning and answering

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The training was very interactive and the tutor was excellent in engaging every course attendee and ensuring that the course content was tailored to each attendees Organisation and Company requirements

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