Course Details
Course Duration – Two days
Benefits of Principles of Project Management Course
If you're looking to move into management or want to gain some project management skills for your current job, then our Principles of Project Management course is for you. Understand the role of a project manager and learn how to plan, work and execute projects. Discover how to manage a project from start to finish, including common standards and processes and how to manage stakeholders.
We believe that our skills and teaching techniques are unrivalled by others. During our Principles of Project Management course, we will help you understand Project Management principles, how to plan, schedule and control your project. Learn what critical path analysis is and how to define tasks and sub tasks. Please continue reading below for the entire course content.
We provide training with the level of support and quality you’d expect from a business that have been in the industry since 1998. Our instructor led training service is available throughout the country. We have the flexibility to deliver bespoke training solutions to meet your business needs.
Course Content
Project Management Principles
- 14 Key Principles for Project Management success
- What are the benefits of project management
- Tools of Project management
- Project definitions
- Terms to know and understand
- Starting a project step by step
- Policy statements
- Project Phases
Planning
- Why plan?
- 4 C’s of planning
- 6 reasons why it is important to plan
- Putting together a project plan
- The requirements definition
- Writing the project goal
- Important elements of the goal
Scheduling
- Defining tasks and subtasks
- Rules for brainstorming
- Creating a work breakdown structure (WBS)
- Using a WBS for cost mapping
- Estimating time allocations
- Estimating costs
- Assessing resource requirements
- Obtaining resources for your project
- Assigning resources to your project
- Motivating resources for project success
- Project Risk assessment
- The “What If” analysis
- The 80/20 rule
Controlling
- Crash Path Analysis
- Resource loading and levelling
- Project status reporting
- Project Baseline Management
- Configuration Management
- Managing change
- Trade off analysis
- Project Cost control
- Types of budget
- Project Spend Plan
- Earned value management system
Terminating/Evaluation
- When to terminate a project
- Project post mortem questions
- Phase out plan
- Lessons learned report
Project Management Scalable Methodology guide
- Project Scope management
- Project Time management
- Project cost management
- Project quality management
- Human Resources management
- Communications management
- Project risk management
- Procurement management
- Multi project oversight
Prerequisites
There are no prerequisites for this course.