Project Management: Skills for Success LT0296E 
Target audience
- Individuals who need to strengthen their project management skill sets, those new to project management,
- or project managers seeking a refresher on fundamental project management knowledge, skills and tools.
Course objective
- As an effective project manager, you organise scarce resources, work under tight deadlines, control project
- change and generate maximum team performance. Through a simulated case study, you learn how to
- successfully plan, manage and deliver projects. You also learn how to implement project management
- processes, develop leadership skills and respond to real-world scenarios. At the end of the course, you
- have access to templates and checklists for use back at the office.
- You Will Learn How To
- Plan a project to ensure successful delivery and stakeholder satisfaction
- Apply best practices to plan and run projects using a 6-step project management process
- Implement risk management techniques and mitigation strategies
- Estimate and schedule task work and duration with confidence
- Implement monitoring tools and controls to keep you fully in command of the project
- Recognise and practice the leadership skills needed to run a motivated team
Requirements
Course content
- Introduction
- Managing the project processes and issues
- Creating a realistic and achievable project plan
- Working within project constraints
- Launching Your Project
- Applying a project framework for success
- Identifying the project life cycle stages and the key inputs and outputs
- Balancing typical challenges of project management
- Selecting and applying best practices
- Core project leadership skills
- Identifying stages of team development
- Building and managing team effectiveness
- Building a project charter
- Defining clear project objectives
- Determining and clarifying the goals
- Defining key project deliverables
- Running the objective-setting meeting
- Gaining buy-in from stakeholders
- The 6-Step Planning Method
- Defining the project workload
- Determining project scope with work breakdown structures (WBS)
- Driving the plan down to task level
- Calculating a first cut of project costs
- Building high-confidence estimates
- Effective ways to produce better estimates
- Differentiating between work, duration and resources
- Leveraging three-point estimating to refine accuracy
- Managing the estimating process
- Scheduling the project
- Converting WBS to precedence networks
- Determining the critical path tasks
- Creating dependency diagrams
- Calculating the project duration
- Creating the project timeline
- Building clear and readable Gantt charts
- Using slack effectively in the schedule
- Setting key milestones to track and control the project
- Developing a risk management process
- Identifying the project risks and assumptions
- Evaluating risk impacts
- Strategies for managing risks
- Managing key risks with the Risk Register
- Reducing risks through contingency plans
- Effectively matching resources to work
- Identifying the resources your project needs
- Assigning resources to tasks
- Analysing resource use and costs in the schedule
- Optimising the use of resources
- Preparing and agreeing on task contracts
- Running the Project
- Establishing an effective control process
- Establishing change control procedures
- Presenting the project plan for approval
- Setting the baseline schedule
- Implementing the plan
- Monitoring actual task progress
- Analysing progress against the baseline
- Correcting the project plan to achieve the objectives
- Picking up warnings of trouble ahead
- Engaging team members to maximise productivity
- Tracking and reporting progress
- Tracking planned vs. actual task performance
- Crashing the critical path tasks
- Analysing the impact of variation to the baseline plan
- Avoiding the 90%-complete trap
- Correcting the schedule
- Leading throughout the project life cycle
- Communicating project status to stakeholders
- Coping with common project scenarios
- Building ownership, motivation and commitment across the team
- Successful Project Closure
- Managing systematic project closedown
- The payoff of postimplementation review
- Documenting project and personal lessons learned for process improvement
Notes
- RealityPlus
- Through a multimedia-enhanced four-day simulation, you manage a comprehensive project from beginning
- to end. You use real-world PC- and paper-based tools and templates to actively present plans, control
- progress and close the project. Experiential activities include:
- Defining and agreeing on clear project goals and measurable deliverables
- Brainstorming the work breakdown structure
- Estimating task duration and work
- Determining task dependencies and the project schedule
- Assigning and optimising resources
- Developing risk management plans
- Producing the implementation plan
- Managing and responding to changes
- Evaluating motivation and team-building issues
Duration
4 Days
Sorted by location
| Date |
Location |
Duration |
Net price |
Type |
Guarantee |
Package |
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| 21.08.2012 | Heidelberg | 4 Days | 2.170,00 EUR |  |  |  | | |
| 20.11.2012 | Heidelberg | 4 Days | 2.170,00 EUR | | | | | |
| 15.01.2013 | Heidelberg | 4 Days | 2.170,00 EUR | | | | | |
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