Project management

Overview

This 2-day course is about understanding projects, developing project plans and management strategies, and ensuring projects achieve objectives within targets.

By the end of the course you will be able to:

Identify the components of project stages and lifecycle
Describe project methodologies and their application
Develop a project plan, identify and mitigate risks and construct a monitor and review strategy

Content

Defining projects
- What are projects?
- The Planning Cycle
- Writing a project business case
Project methodologies
- Selecting a PM methodology
Project planning tools
- Work Breakdown Structure
- Gantt Charts
- Critical Path Method (CPM)
- Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT)
- Creating a project environment
- Responsibility charts
- Stakeholder analysis and management
Conducting the project
- Monitoring and controlling the project
- Closure and review