Prince2 Project Planning Techniques

• Experienced project managers who want to refine or upgrade their skills in project planning
• Newly appointed project managers who need to learn the key skills necessary to successfully undertake their assignments
• Project management/support office staff who need to have an in-depth understanding and ability in the techniques of project planning
• Project team leaders who will directly or indirectly apply planning techniques.

This 2 day course concentrates on developing the underlying techniques & skills needed for effective project planning. It will teach you how to describe the need for, and methods involved in, planning a project and create a set of plans covering activities, resources, cost and time.

The aims of the course are to help you learn how to:

• Describe the need for, and methods involved in, planning a project
• Create a set of plans covering activities, resources, cost and time.
• Following completion of this course, you will know how to:
• Specify the deliverables and activities of a project
• Specify and estimate the resources required for a project and the means of their procurement
• Prepare budget estimates for time and resources
• Cost and price a project
• Produce a schedule for a project

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To succeed in project management you not only need to understand the “what?” and “why?” principles, but also to have a portfolio of skills and techniques in the “how?” to do it.

This course assumes a good knowledge of project management principles, and concentrates on developing the underlying planning techniques and skills needed to manage a project in a structured environment.

This course covers the basic approaches and techniques of planning a project, and how they can be used to maximise success.

This course is applicable to all project management methods including PRINCE2™

Training Course Content

• Project management overview
• Introduction to planning
• Product and work breakdown
• Estimating
• Activity networks
• Gantt charts and resource histograms

The course is delivered in an entertaining and highly interactive manner with many real life examples used to illustrate the subject. There is a high degree of delegate participation and practical work.

PRINCE2™ is a Trade Mark of the Office of Government Commerce.

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