Project Management

Overview

Project Management is the process through which you execute and deliver a positive change in an organisation: to organise, plan, direct and control a project within time and on budget. It involves "hard" skills such as creating Gantt charts and undertaking Earned Value Analysis, and "soft" skills like managing inter-group politics and conflict.

Topics Covered

This interactive Short Course will be using "state-of-the-art"' project management practice and theory, as used by the Project Management Institute. You will be involved in case studies, class discussion and worked examples.

The specific areas to be covered are:

• Integration Management ensures that the various elements of the project are properly co-ordinated.
• Scope Management is controlling a project in terms of its aims, goals and objectives through the process of conceptual development, full scope definition or statement, scope reporting and control, and project close out.
• Time Management is allocating time to every element of the project through the successive stages of its natural life-cycle.
• Cost Management is maintaining effective financial control of the project.
• Quality Management is the composite of material attributes (including performance features and characteristics) of the product or service
• Human Resource Management is directing and coordinating human resources throughout the life of the project. It involves the application of the principles of behavioural science and administrative knowledge to achieve the predetermined scope, time, cost, quality and participant satisfaction.
• Communications Management is ensuring timely and appropriate generation, collection, dissemination, storage and ultimate disposition of project information.
• Risk Management is identifying, analysing and responding to project risk. It includes maximising the results of positive events and minimising the consequences of adverse events.
• Procurement Management is acquiring resources in order to produce the end product.

Who should attend

People from all disciplines and backgrounds managing businesses or projects to achieve successful results.

Examples of Project Management-type activities:

• New product launches
• Plant relocation
• Business or process restructuring
• Introducing or upgrading new technology
• Planning a wedding
• Curating an exhibition

Outcomes

At the end of this two-day Short Course, you will:

• Appreciate and apply the range of practical Project Management techniques within your organisation
• Confidently manage a project at a satisfactory conclusion, within time and on budget

Related Courses

For managing multiple projects check out Portfolio and Programme Management.