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Project Management for Team Members

Course Duration: One Day

Target Audience:

All Project Team Members who will benefit from having a clear understanding of how projects are planned, executed, monitored and controlled.

Course Objectives:

As well as providing attendees with a thorough understanding of project characteristics, principles and key processes (by phase), this course also examines the barriers to great project planning and execution, and equips the participants with a simple methodology - To set clear objectives, to identify tasks, to allocate responsibility and resources and to set up appropriate project performance measurements and communications plans.

Course Outline:

Project Management Execution

  • What Does Good Project Execution Look Like?
  • What are the Barriers?
  • How can Project Management Approaches Help?

Project Management Introduction

  • Project Management Principles
  • Project Life Cycle & Project Phases
  • Project Management Process Groups
  • PMBOK Methodology Overview
  • Project Processes and Key Project Documents
  • Triple Constraints & Critical Success Factors

Project Management Planning (PMP)

  • What Should a PMP contain?
  • Work Breakdown Structures
  • Time Management and Schedule Development
  • Gantt Chart
  • Mind-Mapping Exercise
  • Brown Paper Gantt Exercise
  • Activity Dependencies (Including Activity on Node Diagram Exercise)

Monitoring and Controlling Projects

  • How to Manage Changes to Scope
  • RACI (Including exercise)
  • The Critical Path Method
  • Constructing a Network Diagram Exercise
  • How to Control a Schedule
  • Performance Criteria
  • Project Measurement Techniques
  • Baselines

Project Reporting and Control

  • Effective Progress Meetings
  • Setting Up Effective Team Structures & Assigning Responsibilities
  • Communication Planning
  • Report Definition
  • Risk Management Process
  • Issue Management Process
  • Project Status Reports
  • What is Earned Value?

Project Close-Out

  • Completion Verification
  • Organisational Learning
  • Records

Course Summary and Review