Basic Project Management

This 3-day course offers a unique blend of coaching and practical hands-on exercises with a blend of PRINCE2-based project management theory with MS Project computer-based training.

More and more work in these days of rapid change involves management by projects

 

How do managers start to develop basic project management disciplines?

 

Most courses either teach tools or are heavily theory-based. This three-day course offers a unique blend of coaching and practical hands-on exercises.A blend of PRINCE2-based project management theory with MS Project computer-based training.

Designed for:

Project staff members seeking to gain practical, hands-on project management skills.

 

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By the end of this course participants will be able to:
• Understand the need for project management
• Enable use of practical techniques to explore the feasibility of starting up a project
• Establish the project objective - and its context within the purpose and focus of the business
• Prepare project plans using practical planning techniques
• Use the Work Breakdown Structure to plan effective use of resources & skills
• Assess risk analysis & risk management
• Use MS Project to record the plan, set the critical path & establish the baseline
• Compare actuals against the baseline
• Understand and apply techniques for the management of quality and change control

 

 

 

1- Project Management Principles

 

• Project Concepts & Definitions
• PRINCE - Standard Methodology
• Project Phases
• Identifying Key Players

Starting Up a Project

• Project Objective & the Business
• Analysis Tools
- SWOT, Pareto, Ishikawa Diagrams
• Assessing Feasibility
• Assessment Techniques

Planning

• Translate Project Objective into a Project Plan
• Work Breakdown Structure
- Defining Tasks & Deliverables
• Scheduling the Plan
- Network Analysis & Gant Charts
• Critical Path Analysis

Risk management

• Risk analysis and management

Project Life Cycles

• Basic Project Life Cycle
• Phased Development & Prototypes
• PRINCE Process Model

Project Organisation

• The project board
• The project manager Role
- Process Responsibilities
- Responsibilities to Project Board
- Stakeholder Management
- Team management
• Team Roles
• Team Organisation Models
• Motivation models

Project Execution

• Directing the project
• Comparing baselines to actuals
• Milestone Tracking

 
Quality

• Review Types
• Quality controls & reviews

Change Management

• Changes to Project Deliverables
• Impact & Control of Change

Closing the Project

• Project Handover
• Closure Tasks

 

MS Project Environment

• Gantt, PERT, Calendar Views
• Calendar Issues

Task Issues

• Entering the Project Plan on the Gantt Chart
• Displaying the Critical Path
• Establishing the Work Breakdown Structure
• Setting Task Relationships
• Setting Priorities & Constraints

Resource Issues

• Creating a Resource List
• Allocating Resources
• Effort Driven Concept
• Resolving Overallocations
• Creating a Resource Pool
• Resource Levelling across Projects

Costs

• Prorated Resource Costs
• Cost per Use vs Fixed Costs
• Contractor Costs
• Fixed Costs & Excel

Project Progress

• Baseline Concept
• Setting the Baseline
• Tracking the Project
• Comparing Baseline & actuals

Multiple Projects

• Master & Sub Projects
• Managing Multiple projects

Reporting

• Reporting & Printing in Project
• Reporting in Word