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Project Management for Managers
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CPD StandardsInstant confirmationGlobal presenceThis course takes the mystery out of how to organise and plan projects, meet deadlines, and keep the budget under control. Delegates will benefit by saving time and money through improved plans, schedules, and communications. This fast-paced, hands-on course is specially designed to meet the “instant” project manager’s needs. It provides basic project management (PM) principles and terms, reinforced with a selfcheck quiz and an easy-to-use set of tools to help new managers plan and implement their projects. This course provides the opportunity for delegates to create tangible PM work products which are immediately usable to support their projects.
Course Objectives
By the end of the training programme, participants will be able to:
- Define basic project management terms.
- Distinguish projects from ongoing operations and programmes.
- Explain the benefits of organising project activities into phases.
- Describe the Generic Project Life Cycle.
- Develop, plan, schedule, and chart project information.
- Work with calendars and implement scheduling methods such as the Critical Path Method to keep projects on track.
- Create task dependencies and work with flexible and inflexible task constraints.
- Work with multiple, consolidated projects and multiple critical paths.
- Use Gantt charts to visualise project progress.
- Create PEST charts to understand the relationships between tasks.
- Compare actual progress against planned baseline projections.
- Estimate durations for activities and resources required.
- Estimate durations for activities and resources required.
- Develop a project schedule.
- Estimate costs.
- Build a budget and spending plan.
- Describe elements of a good project communications plan.
- Organise to acquire staff.
- Identify risks and plan to respond.
Who Should Attend?
Business owners, managers, supervisors, project managers (or leaders) who want to improve their project management skills.
Course Outline
- What are "projects"?
- Why project management?
- The project life cycle
- Influences on a project
- Key stakeholders
- Project management process groups
- Project manager responsibilities
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