Project Management – Level 1

• 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

• 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

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