Course Ref: 34533
Course: Practical Project Planning
Course Summary
Practical Project Planning is a 2-day, non-residential, generic course, which teaches techniques for effective planning and control of projects.
Course Outline
This course is designed for those who already have team motivation skills but need planning and control techniques. This will include project managers who have no staff directly reporting to them and those where product development is or has been out sourced to 3rd party suppliers. Case Study work will be done using the tool MS Project.
Course Syllabus
Project Management Introduction
• Project characteristics
• The need for a plan
• Management requirements
• Project Definition Project Deliverables
• Identifying deliverables
• Defining deliverables
• 3 benefits of product planning
• The Product Description
• Product Breakdown Structures
• Product Flow Diagrams
• Project characteristics
• The need for a plan
• Management requirements
• Project Definition Project Deliverables
• Identifying deliverables
• Defining deliverables
• 3 benefits of product planning
• The Product Description
• Product Breakdown Structures
• Product Flow Diagrams
Estimating
• The problem with estimates
• The 3 strand rope
• Estimating formulae Activity and Resource Planning
• The Gantt Chart
• Resource levelling
• The 3 constraints
• Activity dependency
• The PERT Network
• Critical Path Analysis
Risk Management
• What is project risk?
• Evaluating risk
• The Risk Grid
• Options for managing risk
• Risk management step by step Quality Controls
• Establishing quality levels
• Determining suitable measures
• Ways of controlling quality
• Quality audit
• Maintaining the quality profile
Control
• The control / benefit balance
• Project controls that work
• The 4 way project controls of planning MS Project Case Study
• Project phases
• Project Milestones
• Scheduling Tasks
• Allocating Resources
• Setting a Baseline
• Capturing actuals
• Controlling a project
Project Deliverables
• Identifying deliverables
• Defining deliverables
• 3 benefits of product planning
• The Product Description
• Product Breakdown Structures
• Product Flow Diagrams
Activity and Resource Planning
• The Gantt Chart
• Resource levelling
• The 3 constraints
• Activity dependency
• The PERT Network
• Critical Path Analysis
Quality Controls
• Establishing quality levels
• Determining suitable measures
• Ways of controlling quality
• Quality audit
• Maintaining the quality profile
MS Project Case Study
• Project phases
• Project Milestones
• Scheduling Tasks
• Allocating Resources
• Setting a Baseline
• Capturing actuals
• Controlling a project
Course Fees
The course fees include lunch, refreshments, and course materials.
Course Materials
Course delegates are provided with copies of all the course visuals and class exercises.
Joining instructions for public courses are sent to you two weeks before the start of the course or when you confirm your booking.
Pre-Requisites
There are no pre-requisites for delegates to attend the course.
Where & When
| Location | Watford |
|---|---|
| Start Date | 11 Sep 08 |
| Price (ex. VAT) | £588.00 |
| Venue Info | Watford - AGF House |
| Residential | No |
| Availability | Full |
| Duration | 2 days |
| Delivered As | Venue and on-site |
| Course Ref | 34533 |
