Managing and Delivering Projects

Portfolio management – green lighting projects, ensuring balance between competing resources

• Project charter – defining the project and ensuring clarity about what it will deliver

• Critical success factors – determining the critical success factors

• Aims and objectives – creating clarity on the deliverables of the project

• Scoping – determining what’s in scope and what’s out of scope within the project

• Stakeholder analysis – working out who’s involved and who’s on the receiving end of the project

• Project roles – the different people and functions that can be part of a big project

• Team roles and types – the challenge of teams in projects, including Belbin’s team roles

• Triple constraint – agreeing time, quantity and quality of a project.

• Work breakdown – analysing and determining all steps and stages within the project

• The DREC cycle (denial, resistance, exploration and commitment) – recognising the need for a human factors plan within projects as well a technical plan.

• Cost estimation – how to breakdown and factor costs within a project

• Time estimation – developing reasonable time estimates with identified margins

• Gantt charts – how to develop timed plans for the project

• RACI analysis (responsible, accountable, consulted, informed)– allocating duties and tasks within a project

• Project closure – bringing a project to a conclusion, finishing and ending appropriately.