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Project Management Fast Track

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In Birmingham ()

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Description

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This highly intensive one-day training course teaches delegates basic project management techniques, and is intended to familiarise delegates with common terms and tools so that they can manage projects more effectively.

About this course

Anyone with little or no knowledge of project management tools or techniques, but who has become involved with projects and needs to acquire a basic understanding in the shortest possible time.

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2018

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Subjects

  • Project Management
  • Planning
  • Project
  • Network Training
  • Stakeholder Management
  • Time management
  • Goal achivement
  • Decision Making
  • Problem Solving
  • Project Manager

Course programme

MODULE 1: Course Overview and Learning Objectives


MODULE 2: Defining Projects and Project Management

Learning outcomes: Understand what defines a project and when it can't be classed as one. They will learn process steps within a project and identify key stakeholders and participants.

Topics covered:
  • What is a Project?
  • What is Project Management?
  • Who Are the Key Players?
MODULE 3: How Can Projects Help Me?

Learning outcomes: Identify the benefits of structuring and prioritising a project and how to integrate it into their work schedule.

Topics covered:
  • The Benefits of Projects
  • Case Study

MODULE 4: A Project's Life Cycle

Learning outcomes: Understand how to produce a SOW after the concept/creation phase; a project plan and, following the execution, a close out. They will look at milestones in a project and understand factors which may cause issues along the way.

Topics covered:
  • The Four Phases of a Project
  • Milestones
  • Why do Projects Fail?
  • Three Ways to End a Project
MODULE 5: Project Goals

Learning outcomes: Look at setting objectives and goals and be able to describe the outcome, deliverables and benefits to stakeholders within the project.

Topics covered:
  • SMART Goals
  • Your Project's Goals
MODULE 6: Using a Target Chart

MODULE 7: Preparing Your Project

MODULE 8: What Really Needs to be Done?

Learning outcomes: Know how to break down a project into individual tasks and how best to assign resources and costs to each one.

Topics covered:
  • Identifying Tasks
  • Identifying Resources
MODULE 9: The Work Breakdown Structure

Learning outcomes: Identify key accomplishments in a project and produce a work breakdown diagram to illustrate milestones in each phase.

Topics covered:
  • About Milestones
MODULE 10: Scheduling and Planning

Learning outcomes: Learn methods of how to allocate time to tasks and generate schedules with planning tools, such as: checklists, milestone charts, Gantt charts, pert diagrams, network diagrams and process diagrams.

Topics covered:
  • Preparing a Basic Schedule
  • Float Time
  • Scheduling Checklist
  • Activity Scheduling
  • Planning Tools
  • Action Planning Worksheets
  • Milestone Charts
  • PERT
  • Along the Critical Path
  • Gantt Charts
  • The Network Diagram
  • Five Steps to Create a Network Diagram
  • The Flow Chart
MODULE 11: Project Risks

Learning outcomes: Learn ways to pre-empt risk by understanding factors which can have a negative impact. They will identify decision factors and determine a response to each risk, laid out in an action plan.

Topics covered:
  • Types of Risks
  • Five Steps to Deal With Risks
MODULE 12: Execution Phase

Learning outcomes: Recognise the importance of keeping the project running, by scheduling status meetings, logging issues and overcoming tasks which seem to drag on without any progress.

Topics covered:
  • Maintaining the Rhythm
  • The 95% Phenomenon
MODULE 13: Closing Out a Project


MODULE 14: Your Personal Action Plan

Project Management Fast Track

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