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Training Course Summary:

This five day training course provides the key processes and methods central to fulfilling the project manager’s role. Its principle advantage is that the programme examines how these processes can be implemented on a day-to-day basis through the use of Microsoft® Project software and as such it is a highly practical programme of training. To support this approach delegates work through a case study throughout the programme

By the end of this course you will be able to:

Understand what is meant by a project and what sets projects apart from day-to-day work.
Appreciate the range of competencies and skills needed to be an effective project manager.
Focus the objectives of the project in line with business and client needs.
Understand the roles and responsibilities necessary for effective project delivery.
Comprehend the reasons why projects fail and build in the mechanisms to protect your own projects.
Ensure that projects are planned, reviewed, controlled and implemented successfully.
Plan for effective communication.
Automate key processes of the planning and performance monitoring of a project.

Who Should Attend:

Suitabel for people who are new to project management or have had little formal training and who want to consolidate and develop their core project management skills. No previous project management knowledge is assumed. This programme is not suitable for delegates already proficient in the use of standard project planning techniques.

Training Course Overview/Content:

Project Definition and Lifecycle

What is a project?
The stages of the project lifecycle
The role of the project manager
Project team roles and responsibilities
Project organisational structures
The project management system
Defining and clarifying project objectives, scope and constraints - gaining agreement with key project roles
Project Planning - the Principles

Planning tools and methods - work breakdown structures, network diagrams, critical path analysis and estimating
Use Microsoft® Project to support the creation of project network diagrams and Gantt charts and to communicate the plan
Identifying areas of risk and contingency planning
Using Microsoft® Project to schedule and review resource workloads
Building quality into the project
Project Leadership and Teamworking

Mapping out the project team
Building and developing effective project teams
Managing remote and virtual teams
Project team leadership and motivation
Project Monitoring and Control
Accurate capture of progress to date
Risk identification, assessment and management
Using Microsoft® Project to track and report progress
Use Microsoft® Project to support corrective action planning
Change control - responding to problems and changes
Project Communication

Maintaining communication throughout the project lifecycle
Achieving buy in from project participants and stakeholders
Keeping people informed - using communication to keep the project visible and alive
Understand how Microsoft® Project can support project communication
Closing the Project

Project completion and handing over the project
Project performance review - lessons to be learned
Post project activities
Personal Development

Review of your own project issues and concerns
Creating a personal action plan throughout the programme