Putting Project Management Into Practice - Advanced Level

COURSE BACKGROUND

The aim of this BRAND NEW 1 DAY COURSE is to provide the opportunity for knowledge transfer as well as the sharing of experience. The course covers a number of issues that have been raised by previous participants on PM courses and provides tools and tips in how to deal with some of the less tangible issues a PM has to manage. The course is aimed at both new and experienced PM’s who wish to improve their practice and progress beyond the standard PM skill set.

SPEAKERS’ Panel

The speaker for each course will be from a panel of either John Henry Looney or John Ross

OVERVIEW

The model project manager

• Traits of the best Project Managers

• Leadership role
• Understanding stakeholders’ needs
• Understanding constraints
• Setting project aims and goals
• Overcoming obstacles for effective project management

Managing the client

• Understanding user requirements
• Setting expectations
• Communicating during the project
• Understanding the small yet important details
• Dealing with complexity and changes to scope

Managing the finances

• The financial plan
• Financial management controls
• Estimating costs and benefits
• Authorisation to spend funds
• Recording actual costs and committed costs
• Financial reporting

Managing the people

• Creating the organisation
• Selecting the leaders
• Motivating the leaders
• Communicating the vision
• Communicating the ethos
• Developing the people

Managing the change

• Definition of change: Opportunity, threat or crisis
• Impact assessment
• Design of a solution
• Approval to proceed
• Implementation of agreed solution
• Recording the result

Improving the productivity

• Measuring productivity
• Measuring quality
• Productivity and quality analysis
• Increasing your team’s output
• Organising time
• Effective meetings
• The supply chain

Generating the business

• Tactical marketing
• Making the most of existing client relationships
• Client perceptions and client behaviours
• Cross-selling
• Asking for a referral
• The email proposal

Playing the great game

• Power and politics
• Identifying focal points
• Gaining co-operation
• Negotiation and bargaining
• Making decisions

Coping with a crisis

• What are crisis management and project continuity?
• The business case for crisis and continuity planning
• Creating a crisis management project continuity plan
• Roles and responsibilities
• Stress testing your plan
• Maintaining your plan

Understanding success (and failure)

• Strike while memories are fresh
• Importance of the project diary
• Analysing the project outcomes
• Tangible and intangible costs and benefits
• Communicating lessons learned