Planning Principles

Course Overview

Good planning is at the heart of good programme and project management, all too often good practice that is learned on training courses is not putinto practice in the real world. This course covers the key concepts and reminds practitioners of the good practice principles and can lead to the award of a nationally recognised certificate following an assessment exercise.

Duration: 1 day, 20 hours of study time for the Certificate
Public courses: Public courses are based around a case study.

Why should you use Aspire Europe?

Aspire Europe is an organisation dedicated to delivering change through programme management. We see this activity as critical to the success of change in organisations as we have provided consultants to perform this activity in the past.

We look at the tools and techniques that will be helpful day-to-day and identify areas where further development will help. In addition we will explore the different stakeholder engagement and communication skills that will be required to maintain a stakeholder benefits focus in a change programme.

The course is a skills component for the professional development of Business Change Managers and members of a change team. Aspire Europe offer further accredited courses to continue this development.

Benefits of attendance

• Increased confidence in using common planning techniques
• The elements to consider when developing a plan
• Techniques and tools to help construct a realistic plan
• Control measures that enable effective control of a plan

COURSE CONTENT

Session

Planning Techniques

• Designing a plan
• Output (product) based planning
• Activities, dependencies and assumptions
• Estimating
• Scheduling Critical path analysis
• Costing a plan

Planning Standards

• Methods of standardisation
• Resources productivity / utilisation
• Roles and responsibilities
• Functional components
• Plan presentation

Planning Controls

• Risk, Issue and Change control
• Management Stages
• Milestones
• Tolerances
• Measurement techniques
• Lessons Learned
• Communication

Action Planning

• Delegates to develop an action plan to go back and deliver effective and efficient business change through the PMO as a support function.go back and deliver effective and efficient business change through the
  PMO as a support function.