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Training Course Summary:

This comprehensive five-day course is based on the Association for Project Management’s Body of Knowledge and syllabus for the APMP examination. It is designed to improve the skills of project management staff to enable them, through good project management practice, to make sound business decisions and thereby manage their projects to a successful conclusion. The examination will provide the delegate with an industry-recognised qualification. The course builds on your knowledge and attendees will learn how to control and monitor their projects including risk and financial analysis together with reporting on progress. More advanced skills such as negotiation techniques and managing subcontractors is also covered in theory together with case studies to reinforce the learning.

Who Should Attend:

Anyone who intends to be, or is involved in managing a project as well as anyone who wishes to continue the development of their Project Management career skills. Team members wishing to learn more about managing successful projects through to existing project managers wishing to attain the APM Professional status.

Training Course Overview/Content:

Course objectives:

Delegates will be able to:
Manage the optimum balance between cost, quality and time
Use a systematic approach to analysing and planning a project
Apply Work Breakdown Structures
Understand the use of the basic tools of Microsoft Project
Construct precedence networks
Use critical path analysis techniques
Select and apply appropriate project monitoring and control methods and provide quality project reports
Use creative thinking processes
Apply project cost analysis and control
Understand negotiation techniques
Prepare for the APMP examination

Course content

Advanced project concepts
Project team characteristics
A systematic approach to planning including an introduction to Microsoft Project
Constructing a project plan
Project risk and financial analysis
Constructing precedence networks, resource estimating and allocation
Project monitoring, quality, project cost estimating and control and project reporting
Creative thinking
Negotiation skills
Managing Subcontractors