Improving your Project Management Skills: Planning, Organizing & Controlling Projects

Improving Your Project Management Skills:

Planning, Organizing & Controlling Projects

OBJECTIVES 

The ultimate objective of this course is to provide you with a solid foundation of generic skills that you could apply to either small or large projects in order to deliver these projects with higher quality, greater value and better accountability.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

The course is not industry specific. It is designed for individuals with little or no formal project management training. Therefore, it suits both professionals and non-professionals who are new to project management or moving into a project management role. Take a moment to consider whether any of the following statements applies to you:

• I want to convert ideas into actions.
• I need people to work with me if I am to achieve what I want.
• I can see things around me that could be changed for the better.
• I wish they told me about this before we started.

COURSE OUTLINE

Overview of Project Management

• What is a project?
• Identifying project stakeholders
• Project lifecycle
• Roles in and around projects
• Project and people management
• Project team and leadership
• Clarifying project management terminology
• The art, science and practice of project management

Project Planning

• Project plan vs. Project planning
• Setting project priorities and objectives
• Work breakdown structure (WBS)
• Developing a project implementation plan
• What ‘should’ be done vs. what ‘could’ be done?
• The safety factor paradox

Project Scheduling & Budgeting

• Level of detail in scheduling
• Network logic and dependency analysis
• Fundamentals of budgeting & cost control
• Time and cost trade-offs

Project Resourcing, Control and Evaluation

• Resource allocation
• Team-building and Empowerment
• Delegation
• Communication within the project team
• Performance indicators and feedback mechanisms
• Proactive management
• Plan updating

Project Reporting, Closure and Hand-over

• Project review meetings
• Analyzing project performance
• Progress reports and records
• Determinants of project success
• Lessons learned and creating learning culture
• Successful hand-over; who is it for and how do you plan for it?