Project Management Fundamentals
- Teach planning, delivery, and management of projects confidently.
- Target students need basic project management understanding.
- Learn principles, plan, manage projects, complete documentation.
- Interactive course involves team planning and project management.
- Work in groups with a Project Manager through project stages.
Overview
The Project Management Training course aims to teach delegates how to effectively plan, deliver, and manage projects. Participants will learn the principles of good project management, complete necessary project documentation, and work as a team to achieve project success. The interactive course covers a 4-stage approach to project management, including initiation, planning, execution/control, and project closure. Delegates will work in groups with a designated Project Manager and have the opportunity to choose projects to work on.
Who should attend
Project Managers
Course Content
Course Aim
To teach delegates how to effectively and confidently plan, deliver and manage projects.
Target Student:
Delegates who require a basic understanding of how to plan and manage a project. Designed for staff who do not need the intricacies of a PRINCE2 course or for staff who are aiming to attend a PRINCE2 course and wish to learn some prior basic project management skills.
Prerequisites: None
Course Objectives
- Learn the principles of good project management
- Plan and manage a project
- Complete necessary project management documentation
- Work as a team to plan, manage and deliver a project
Description:
This interactive course will take delegates through the process of planning and managing a project within a team environment. Delegates will work within groups with a Project Manager appointed to lead the group through the project management process.
Participants will:
- Be interactive within this course
- Be given a choice of projects to work on
- Be placed into groups with one person in the group acting as Project Manager
- Work through a 4 stage approach to Project Management
- Complete the necessary documentation for each stage in the project
- Work as a team to reach a successful outcome of their project
Course Content:
Project Management and the Project Life Cycle
- What do we expect from this Course?
- 7 Principals of Project Management
- What is a Project?
- Projects within a Programme
- What is Project Management?
- Who is the Project Manager?
- Project Organisation Structure
- The Project Life Cycle – 4 Stage Approach
Stage 1 – Initiation
- Identify the need for the project
- Analyse Business options
- Lessons from previous projects investigated and acknowledged
- Complete a Business Case
- Give justification to the project
- Measures benefits against dis-benefits
- Document major risks
- Define and document Roles and Responsibilities
- Appoint a Project Manager
- Business Case Sign Off
Stage 2 – Planning
- Projects agreed and appropriately prioritised
- A PID (Project Initiation document) created
- Project Plan created using a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
- Project planned detailing Phases, Tasks, Duration, Start and Finish Date, Constraints, Resources, Costs and Risk.
- Resources added to the project
- Create a Gantt Chart displaying the project’s tasks, milestones and critical path
- Risk Register created
- Quality Register created
- Communications process created
- Set a Baseline (Point of Approval)
- PID Sign Off
Stage 3 – Execution/Control
- Risks assessed and analysed
- If required Change controlled and documented
- Issues escalated and documented
- Actuals against Planned documented
- Stage Plans completed
- Determine If Business Case is still valid or project will deliver the business benefits
Stage 4 – Closing a Project
- Define the end of a Project
- Determine if successful outcome
- Lessons Learned Report completed
- End Project Report completed
Duration: 2 Days
Cost:£395 + VAT
Project Management Training Scotland, Inverness, Aberdeen, Glasgow, Edinburgh and other sites throughout the UK including onsite closed company courses are available.
