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Training Course Summary:

This clearly structured course provides an insight into the tools and methodologies essential for analysing projects of all types, in order to plan and manage them to a high degree of accuracy. This course is ideal for those who require solid project management skills but are not in a position to undertake a formal qualification such as PRINCE2™

Who Should Attend:

Those with some project management experience who want to develop their skills to manage large or complex projects

Training Course Overview/Content:

• The key to a successful project: Planning, communication and commitment. Using a ‘standard’ methodology – an overview of the PRINCE2™ and PMI Bok project methodologies
• Managing the risk: A risk management culture. Proactive risk management. Effective use of Risk Logs. Objective evaluation of project risks. Impact of risk to the project and to the business. Planning effective responses
• The project environment: The project team and the wider project environment. Organisational structure. Defining project team roles in matrix organisations. Commitment register
• Financial control: 3 point estimating. Earned Value Analysis
• Focusing on customer needs: Defining, understanding and agreeing ‘deliverables’. Getting ‘customer’ commitment
• Stage management of the project: Managing the project Stage by Stage with customer approval. Accurate record keeping. Eliminating the gap between desired outcome and actual outcomes. Looking forward. Managing change. Handling project issues
• Closing the project: Clean end to a project. Follow-on activities. Post-project audit and post-project appraisal. Lessons learned Log. Survival tips for project managers

What do I get out of it?
• Practical tools to ensure that the project is completed as planned
• The skills to handle issues that arise during the project to reduce their impact on the project objectives
• New methods to identify and assess project risks, costs and requirements