Project Management Fundamentals - 2 days
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Projects are essentially about managing change – and because change is an increasingly significant fact of business life - project management is an essential key skill in today’s working environment. Many people are involved in project work, either directly or in a supporting role, and yet they have never received formal training in the basic techniques that can make the difference between a successful project and an expensive failure.
This introductory course will provide participants with an overview of the principles, skills and techniques required for effective project management.
The course will introduce participants to a rigorous and systematic approach to managing projects whether they are simple or complex and show them how to apply these concepts to professional and personal projects of all sizes .
Objectives
This course will provide participants with the essential knowledge and skills to either manage a project or be an effective valuable member of a project team. It covers the fundamental steps in any project lifecycle, using a case study approach in order to follow a project from conception to completion.
Delivery
This course is delivered over two consecutive days.
The facilitator of this workshop will combine introductory theory and case study work for those new to project work or team members who require an understanding of the fundamental approach to project management.
This section is particularly suitable for those involved in low value, low risk projects or multiple, independent projects. The content covers the four phases of project management – initiation, development, implementation and finalisation – with a focus on the early planning stages of project management
This approach provides participants with a “hands-on”, multi-faceted and challenging learning experience.
Training is provided through hands – on learning, relevant exercises and the provision of a participant handbook.
Course Content
- Identify and discuss the nature of projects
- Understand the 9 functions of project management
- Clarify the phases in the project life cycle
- Justify the project business case
- Write scope statements / definitions
- Identify project stakeholders
- Develop a cohesive project team and identify responsibilities
- Discuss what constitutes a project plan
- Build a work breakdown structure
- Define activities, estimate task durations, and resources
- Assign responsibilities to tasks
- Understand project scheduling, including network diagrams, critical path analysis and Gantt Charts
- Conduct risk assessments and contingency planning
- Undertake plan management, including monitoring, control, reporting and communicating progress
- Bring the project to a successful conclusion.
Course Delivery
We run our Project Management Fundamentals courses for group numbers of 6-16 participants at customer designated locations offering heavily discounted rates compared to the costs for staff attendance
at public courses.
Our customers provide the venue, equipment (data
projector, whiteboard, flipchart and easel) and choice of
catering. Project Advantage provides the instructor, a notebook computer for course presentation, course
materials (workbooks, CDs, handout materials for activities) and Certificates of
Achievement.
We also run Public Courses to satisy your individual needs. Click here for details of our Project Management Fundamentals courses for 2012.
Course Costs
The costs for our 2 day Project Management Fundamentals course varies and is dependent on the number of
participating students in your workplace on each day.
Public Course costs are - $750 ex GST per participant.
For further enquiries on the Project Management Fundamentals course, and to obtain a
competitive quote for delivery into your workplace contact:
Andrew Wright
PHONE:
1300 887 117
EMAIL: info@projectadvantage.com.au
or click
this link to go to our Contact Us page and
complete our online enquiry form.
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