Project Management – Level 1
Course Information:
| Venue: | Duration: | Date: | Price: |
|---|---|---|---|
| Online | 12 hours | Flexi-date | £1,750.00 |
| In-House | Agreed with client | Flexible | POA |
| London | 5 days | 21-Mar | £3,500.00 |
| London | 5 days | 25-Jul | £3,500.00 |
| London | 5 days | 21-Nov | £3,500.00 |
Who should attend?
- Project team members wishing to move into project management roles
- Other operational staff wishing to learn project management tools and techniques
- Project planners
- Technical and engineering staff wishing to develop skills in managing projects
- Procurement and contract management personnel
- Operational staff who need to understand the basics of project management
Accreditations
Outcomes
- Apply basic project management terminology, methodology and the project lifecycle
- Describe the role of the project manager and the project team
- Apply principles of Scope Management
- Produce a Work Breakdown Structure
- Produce project schedules and cost estimates
- Build Gantt charts and conduct a Critical Path Analysis
- Identify reasons why fail and how failure can be avoided
- Utilise basic tools and techniques of project stakeholder, risk, and change management
COURSE TOPICS:
Overview of Project Management
- Definition of a project
- Defining the five key stages of any project
- The key characteristics of all projects
- Understanding the key terms and stages
- Defining key project stakeholders
Management of the Project
- How the project manager is selected
- The key attributes of a project manager
- The responsibilities of the project manager
- The dedicated project team
- Identification and analysis of key stakeholders
The Project Lifecycle, Planning and Control
- The importance of project planning and communication
- Understand the elements of a project scope
- Developing a Work Breakdown Structure
- Establishing the project schedule and baseline
- The typical constraint that affects projects
Project Execution and Managing the Schedule
- Introduction to GANTT charts and building a viable schedule
- Effective techniques of estimating work
- Understand the Critical Path Methods and applying PERT
- Methods and techniques to avoid project scope creep
- Tracking progress and dealing with schedule variances
Dealing with Changes, Risk and Project Handover
- Understand the importance of change management in projects
- Developing a project risk matrix
- The importance of effective project reporting
- How a project ends
- Project handover and close down of the project
