Successful Project Management
Course
In 168-172 Old Street
Description
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Type
Course
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Methodology
Inhouse
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Location
168-172 old street
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Duration
2 Days
The Successful Project Management Training Course offers you the opportunity to obtain an in-depth grasp of the fundamentals of project management. You will gain all the tools and techniques to manage your project's time, cost and quality in order to achieve your business objectives. Even more importantly, you will gain an insight and understanding into the 'people side' of project management. Suitable for: This course is ideal for anyone who feels they would benefit from a solid grounding in the principles of project management. This would include managers of all levels who find themselves implementing projects within their organisation even if it isn't strictly in their job descriptions. In addition this course would be invaluable for all new project managers and/or any project managers with little or no formal training in the subject.
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Course programme
Over the intensive two-day programme you will learn:
- The processes and principles of successful project management
- How to plan, organise and document a project with confidence and in a logical manner with a robust toolkit to support the process
- How to set clear and realistic objectives for a project with an understanding of the project life cycle
- To assess the viability of a project taking into account budgeting, people and risk management issues
- To identify the roles, skills and qualities of a successful project manager and their team
- The importance of effective communication to gain the support and commitment from others
- How to use project management to maximum effect in your organisation
- How to benefit in the future from the strengths and weaknesses identified on completion of a project
This unique programme offers you the opportunity to obtain an in-depth grasp of the fundamentals of project management. You will gain all the tools and techniques to manage your project's time, cost and quality in order to achieve your business objectives. However, in addition to this and, even more importantly, you will gain an insight and understanding into the 'people side' of project management. This will give you the edge over your peers ensuring all your projects are a recognised success. There are many methodologies, theories and definitions in the public domain. However, project management that is purely administrative, mechanistic and bureaucratic is inappropriate for today's dynamic business environment.
PROJECT MANAGEMENT FOR TODAY'S BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT
Return to work with an understanding of the whole picture and the vital ingredients for a project's success:
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Effective Project Management is a combination of process and spirit
Methodology is not enough - the best project managers inject a sense of spirit into every aspect of their projects, making them appealing to stakeholders and the team and vital for the business -
Projects should add greatness to the company& build individuals
All managers should be seeking to add value to the company and to provide a learning experience for all affected -
Project Management should be exciting
Capturing people's imagination leads to successful projects -
Project Managers need to display pride and excellence, not complacency
In today's business environment effective project management is a competitive weapon and project
managers should be striving for excellence -
Project Managers should be delivery focused
Frequent, appropriate delivery balances the need for"quick wins" to maintain the momentum with longerterm initiatives -
Successful Project Management needs to be people based
The main reason for project failure is lack of people focus -
Strong Project Management is based on high integrity
This means 'saying it like it is', raising issues early and approaching conflict appropriately
Foundations of 21st century Project Management
- What, why, when and how of project management
- What makes a project a success
- Understanding and choosing between professional bodies, accreditation, methodologies, processes and tools
- Implications for the way you, the team and organisation work
- It is as much about how you do it as what you do
- The primary importance of people aspects to project work
- The dynamic between vision, strategy, business objectives, initiatives, programmes, projects, workstreams and tasks
- Understanding the project organisation - what kind of matrix are we?
- Running a project start-up workshop
- How can my team generate and nurture ideas?
- The importance of the sponsor
- Foundational stakeholder identification (stakeholder value propositions)
- Identifying high level requirements (functional scope)
- High level planning - developing the delivery plan
- Developing first cut business case - key components
- High level planning
- The Project Charter and Terms of Reference - ensuring the best chance of success
- Team preparation and mobilisation
- Stakeholder management
- 'Recruiting' the right steering group
- Communication planning
- Change & issue management
- Organisational change considerations
- Developing the work breakdown structure
- Creating the responsibility matrix; who does what
- Estimating, budgeting and scheduling
- Understanding risk management and developing the risk management plan
- Refining the project scope
- The Project contract - the basis for agreement
- Monitoring and control processes - who needs to know what, when and how?
- The importance of quality and change control
- Progress reporting and the use of earned value
- Managing the plan
- Getting ready for the delivery - what does it mean for your project?
- Implementation: planning for cut-over, operation and support
- When things go wrong - don't panic
- Launch communication - bringing it all together
- Executing the implementation plan
- Quality criteria for going live
- Customer satisfaction and benefits tracking
- Putting the right support mechanisms in place
- Dismantling the team
- Project closedown activities - who is responsible for it now?
- Post implementation review - has the project delivered?
- Supporting the team to seek new opportunities
- Capturing the learning
- Rewarding the participants
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Building in continuous improvement
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This course is scheduled in central london but can also be held inhouse
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This course is scheduled in central london but can also be held
inhouse
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Successful Project Management