Course Overview
This course is specifically
designed to enable those new to project management to make considered
decisions regarding the validity of a project, pre-plan projects, carry
out risk analysis and produce a project plan using Critical Path Analysis
(PERT) techniques.
You will learn how to effectively maintain
control of projects and present a project to other people so that they can
understand what is happening and can support you in your objectives.
Finally you will cover how to accurately cost projects as well as a brief
introduction to Earned Value Analysis.
Course content
What
is project management?
· What are the fundamental problems to be
addressed?
· The role of the project manager
Project aims
and objectives
· Defining aims and objectives: the Business case
·
Preparing a Project Initiation Document
· Assessing the relative
importance of time, cost and quality
· Project Risk Analysis
Estimating
the workload
· Realistic forecasting
· Use of work standards,
historical data and standard deviation techniques
Getting started
·
Creating a preliminary product list
· Using a Work Breakdown Structure
·
Producing a project plan using PERT techniques
· Allowing for
contingency lead and lag
Analysis of a project plan
· Calculating
the Critical Path
· Understanding float (slack) and contingency
·
Calculating project costs
· Dealing with resource conflicts
Control
of the project's progress
· Setting a baseline
· The management
of change
People management
· Stakeholders
· Potential
problems
· Team management
· Decision making in leadership
·
Delegation and motivation
Stress management
· Causes of stress
and myths about stress
· The parasympathetic and sympathetic states
·
Positive stress management techniques
· A stress reduction
self-evaluation exercise
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