A PMI Approved Training Course
Project Management Essentials
Definition, Planning & Delivery
Course Introduction
This Project Management Essentials training course is designed to enhance your project management skills by focusing on effective management and leadership techniques. You will learn how to identify risks, solve problems, delegate tasks, and communicate effectively. The training course also emphasizes controlling your team and work environment while fostering a culture of improved safety. Essential for all project managers, this Project Management Essentials training course will help you and your team develop the necessary skills to manage projects successfully and create a positive, secure working environment.
Training Objectives
By the end of this COPEX Training course, participants will be able to:
- Understand the Fundamentals of Project Management Including the Ability to Initiate, Plan and Execute Basic Controls for a Project
- Understand the Techniques of Project Planning and How to Deliver One
- Understand How to Define Project Success Using Key Performance Indicators and Establishing Quality Metrics
- Identifying Risks and Understanding the Advantages of Various Types of Contracts
- Understand How to Control, Manage and Close a Project to Your Customers Satisfaction
Training Methodology
This training course will utilise a variety of proven adult learning techniques to ensure maximum understanding, comprehension and retention of the information presented. The course is highly interactive and is designed with briefings and a central project scenario as the driver for all course learning. Students will complete several elements of project work through assigned roles. Several work products will be created including a Scope statement, WBS, Risk Register, activity list, network diagram and earned value report. There will be open discussion and real world examples with the emphasis on learning by doing.
Who should Attend?
This COPEX training course is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:
- Those Who are Actually or Potentially Involved in Projects
- Business Professionals Who Currently Work on Projects or Are Occasionally Assigned to Work as Project Team Members in Any Business Work Areas
- Those Who Directly Contribute to Projects. It is Ideal for Candidates Who are Intending to Start Managing Projects Soon, Need to Learn Project Management Skills Quickly, or Need to Know How to Effectively Select and Manage Projects
Course Outline
- Understanding what project management is
- Defining project and product life cycles
- Understanding Best Practice Project Management
- How to Initiate a Project: How to do it
- Managing the project selection process
- Writing SMART objectives and business cases
Practical Exercise: Creating SMART objectives
Project Exercise: Project Selection exercises
- Developing the project documentation for senior management sign-offs
- Defining the project management
- Understand how to collect requirements
- Defining the full project scope
- Creating and analysing the project with Work Breakdown Structures
Practical Exercise: Writing the Project Charter
Practical Exercise: Gathering Requirements
Practical Exercise: Creating the Work Breakdown Structure
Practical Exercise: Writing the Scope Statement
- Understanding what a realistic schedule is
- Defining and managing dependencies
- How to estimate project durations and costs
- Creating and optimising the project schedule
- Presenting your schedule and resource constraints
- How to control the cost, schedule and resources
Practical Exercise: Network diagramming practice
Practical Exercise: Create, sequence activities and determine duration estimations
Practical Exercise: Complete analogous, parametric and three-point estimating
- Defining and controlling project KPI’s / Metrics
- Presenting and defining the project resource plan
- Developing a communication plan
- Managing Virtual Teams
- Understanding and reviewing project risk
- Managing the project contract against project constraints
Practical Exercise: Create quality project metrics
Practical Exercise: Conduct a project meeting
Practical Exercise: Risk Management project exercise
- Using project software to track projects
- Dealing with project management problems
- Project case reviews and discussion
- Project Management leadership, communications and meetings best practices
- Closing the project including project administration, hand-offs, document updates, and lessons learned
- Lessons learned, why, when and what
Practical Exercise: Create end course lessons learned
Accreditation
Certificates
- COPEX Certificate of Attendance will be provided to delegates who attend and complete the course
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