Build a solid foundation of project management knowledge, techniques and tools and boost your career

Highlights:
• Use the SMART model to define project requirements
• Develop your own Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
• Learn how to run effect project status meetings
• Use the Project Triangle (triple constraints) to plan

Key Competences:
• Project management skills
• Managing the workloads
• Change management
• Using key PM tools
• Managing resources & costs
• Risk management
 

Improving Your Project Management Skills: The Basics for Success is a 3-day or 4 live online sessions hands-on training programme. Highly interactive with exercises and role plays.

Modules:

1 - The Project Management Framework

• Define the Basic Project Management Framework 
• Describe Key Project Management Terminology 
• Explain the Triple Constraints (Project Triangle) 
• Differentiate Between Operations and Projects 
• Describe Project Management in a Business Context 

2 - Initiate the Project

• Describe How Projects Are Initiated 
• Describe the Difference Between Project Requirements and Product Requirements 
• Describe the Purpose and Content of the Project Charter 
• Describe the Purpose and Content of the Product Requirements Document 
• Use the SMART Model When Writing Requirements 
• Identify Information-Gathering Techniques 

3 - Identify the Work

• Discuss the Purpose of a Kick-Off Meeting 
• Develop a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) 

4 - Estimate the Work

• Discuss Guidelines for Making Better Estimates 
• Explain the Use of Three-Point Estimates 

5 - Schedule the Work

• Describe Task Dependencies 
• Identify the Sequence of Tasks via Precedence Diagramming 
• Develop the Project Schedule 

6 - Create the Budget

• Determine the Personnel Costs Needed for the Success of the Project 
• Determine the Expense Costs Needed for the Success of the Project 
• Differentiate Between Bottom-Up and Top-Down Cost Budget Planning, and State Which Is More Appropriate for Different Situations 

7 - Complete the Plan

• Create the Project Communications Plan 
• Describe the Project Risk Management Processes 
• Describe the Purpose of the Project Procurement Plan 
• Discuss the Purpose of Reserves 

8 - Execute the Plan

• Create a Project Status Report 
• Describe the Key Elements Required to Determine Project Health 
• Describe How to Run an Effective Project Status Meeting 
• Describe the Change Management Process 

9 - Close the Project

• Identify the Elements of Both Administrative and Contractual Project Closure Procedures 
• Describe the DifferentWays That Projects Can Be Terminated 
• Explain the Importance of a Repository and Lessons Learned 

You are a manager and have run some projects already. You want to move to the next level and improve your project management skills, learn about key tools and deliver projects on time and on budget

Typical Participants:
• Managers
• New Managers