Project Management

Project Management

A variety of special skills are necessary to successfully plan, manage and
deliver security system installations and other complex technical projects.
Learn how to organise scarce resources, manage your budget, work within
strict deadlines, control unexpected changes and generate maximum team
performance by effective leadership.

Course Content:

• Introduction to project management
• The role and skills of the project manager
• The roles and responsibilities of the project team
• What is a project and why can it fail?
• Defining the project and identifying problems
• Defining scope, constraints and objectives
• Writing project initiation documentatio
• Planning and risk assessment
• Scheduling and contingency
• Communication and people management techniques
• Motivation and morale
• Implementation and execution
• Tracking the project
• Dealing with problems
• Handling requests for change
• Closure of the project
• Measuring results
• Capturing data
• Learning lessons.

Course Details:

• Identifying the key components of a project
• Defining the role of a project manager
• The key components of a project initiation document
• Initiating a project
• Setting project objectives and effective milestones
• Methods for evaluating the success of the project
• Establishing conditions for effective communication
• The importance of planning project communications
• Methods and tools for tracking project progress
• Controlling a stage
• Managing product delivery
• Managing stage boundaries
• Management of risk
• Business and projects
• Project start-up and life cycle
• Project organisation
• Business case components
• Project scenarios
• Product-based planning
• The planning process
• How to keep projects on schedule
• Controlling change
• Closing a project effectively.