Project Monitoring and Control - The Skills in a Day

Are you frustrated by delivering projects over budget or late? Do you constantly battle resource shortages and changing client expectations? Are your stakeholders difficult to deal with? Sound familiar? Managing projects is both complex and challenging, given the many variables that need to be monitored and controlled. In live project environments it is in the effective day-to-day implementation and tailoring of best practice where the real benefits are to be gained for an organisation and that is the focus of this highly interactive one-day workshop. This one day workshop is based around the delivery of a case study project which has already been planned. The starting point is the implementation of the project work based on an agreed business case and project management plan. Using a variety of situations, delegates work in groups to identify how the various challenges they will face in the case study (some predictable and some not) should be addressed. The whole focus is on running a project. Is it right for me? Suitable for new project managers or those with some experience, providing there is already a working knowledge of the most common tools and techniques (e.g. Milestones, Gantt Charts, Network Diagrams, Risk Procedures etc). Delegates will want to focus on the implementation of the tools in a real project environment. Learning Objectives By the end of this workshop you will be able to: Communicate more effectively with all relevant stakeholdersImplement project reporting at an appropriate level of complexityUse resource management techniques to handle a variety of resourcing challengesDeal effectively with unexpected risks and issues, including escalation where necessaryAnalyse the financial performance of your project using Earned Value AnalysisCope with change requests ensuring they are handled formally or informally as appropriateUse configuration management practices to control your baselined productsImplement appropriate quality control...