Project Management Fundamentals Course (Module 1)

Don’t get left behind…

If you take a step back and review the roles set-up within your organisation, it can be suggested that it’s not just those with the official title of project manager who manage the day-to-day projects within your business.

Imagine the productivity increase that could be achieved for your business if you placed your staff on training that would allow them to understand fundamental project management groundings that they can then adapt to their role.

What you gain from the course

Enrol for Project Management Fundamentals and you’ll gain:

• Hands-on, business ready expertise that you can immediately apply
• Comprehensive Project Management Fundamentals program materials and case studies

Industry research shows that a third of all projects are delivered late. To add to this, even more come in over budget or run past the original deadline, and 28% fail altogether. How you lead a project or perform in a project team can dictate the success or failure of each initiative or project that you are involved in, regardless of its size or complexity.

Our interactive workshop provides you with proven techniques, tools and processes to deliver projects within specification, on time and on budget.

The workshop is aligned with A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK^® Guide), current research and best practice industry standards, as well as drawing upon the extensive experience of PM-Partners group’s extensive and continuing involvement in assisting organisations to achieve rapid results in project delivery capability.

Workshop Objective

As its name implies, this workshop provides participants with the essential knowledge and skills to both manage a project end-to-end and understand the fundamental steps in every project’s life cycle. Using a real-life case study, this workshop is designed to enable learnings to be transferred directly into the workplace.

Materials

A comprehensive participant handbook is provided, which includes a set of completed sample project management documents.

Course Content Summary

What Makes Projects Succeed?

• Reviewing project successes and their inherent characteristics.
• Understanding the factors that contribute to project failure and how project management disciplines and processes target these areas to ensure repeatable delivery success.

The Essential Project Management Philosophy

• Defining a project and project management
• Exploring project management parameters – ‘Principle of Triple Constraint’ and trade-offs
• Critical skills for successful project management

The Project Life Cycle

• Examining life cycles and their significance within a project environment
• Examining phase activities, milestones and gates
• Identifying phase deliverables and their importance for ultimate project success

Project Planning

• Scoping the project – understanding and defining the scope, and obtaining key stakeholder signoff
• Creating the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) and scheduling
• Understanding the Critical Path and how a Project Manager utilises it for greater project control
• Applying estimating techniques for a more realistic and balanced estimate
• Introducing procurement planning and vendor selection
• Conducting/contributing to quality planning
• Establishing a project baseline, against which to track progress

Project Implementation and Control

• Tracking and controlling the project
• Applying a disciplined change control management method
• Managing third parties
• Managing project quality and understanding its role within continuous organisational improvement
• Reporting and communication

Closing the Project

• Conducting formal project closure
• Post implementation reviewing – gathering, documenting and assimilating lessons learn

Successful completion of this course will enable participants to:

• Assimilate essential tools and disciplines for planning and controlling projects effectively.
• Scope a project effectively.
• Create a Work Breakdown Structure and translate this into a reliable schedule for effective baselining, tracking and control.
• Estimate with a greater degree of accuracy and manage the typical pitfalls.
• Make successful cost/schedule/scope trade-offs.
• Avoid ‘scope-creep’ by identifying, managing and controlling change throughout a project.
• Deliver project outputs to appropriate quality standards.
• Contribute to the selection, engagement and management of third parties.
• Manage stakeholder expectations and communication.