This course provides participants with the opportunity to…
- Critically analyse and problem-solve within a project based on typical, real-life scenarios.
- Gain real-life skills for facing challenges they’ll be faced with when managing projects.
- Build upon fundamental project management concepts.
- Apply effective interpersonal, leadership and communications skills that will help appropriately engage and manage stakeholders throughout the life of a project.
- Collaborate and share experiences and knowledge with other practicing project managers.
KEY TOPICS
Project selection and feasibility
Exploration of how projects fit into the organisational context and how they are kept in line with organisational strategies and goals.
Planning for success
Key concepts, practices, tools and techniques associated with planning activities e.g. scoping, scheduling, creating budgets, and developing project estimates.
Engaging and communicating with stakeholders
Identifying and analysing stakeholders. How to identify and meet stakeholder expectations through negotiation and collaboration techniques. Dealing with common stakeholder challenges.
Managing risk, procurement and quality
Developing high quality risk statements and risk treatment plans. Selecting vendors through pre-defined evaluation criteria. Defining and meeting quality requirements.
Leading the project
Building and developing the project team. Leading a team through effective delegation and providing structured feedback.
Controlling and closing the project
Identifying activities to effectively control the project. Measuring project performance and reporting on progress. Taking action to manage deviations to planned baselines. The project manager’s role in continuous improvement and benefits realisation.
Although this course does not cover Agile practices in detail, an overview of relevant Agile practices, tools and techniques will be discussed in each session for context.