Planning Principles
Short course
Inhouse
Description
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Type
Short course
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Methodology
Inhouse
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Duration
1 Day
This course provides a general overview of stakeholder engagement and communications and the responsibilities that go with it. Suitable for: Any staff involved in either a programme or project role that involves planning, for example: Operations staff taking up a BCM role. Project Managers and their teams. Programme Managers who have recently been appointed. Programme and project office staff. Business Change Managers
About this course
Attendees should be working in a Programme Office or/and have attended the Programme Overview 1 day course.
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Course programme
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
In-house courses: Can be tailored around a current or planned Change Programme.
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.
Additional information
Planning Principles