Project Management Essentials
Your projects need clear management to move forward despite constraints. Define expectations, organise stages and coordinate stakeholders to monitor commitments more effectively. Strengthen your ability to anticipate deviations and make useful decisions throughout the project.
- Duration
- 3 days 21 hours
- Code
- GEP26FR Code
Presentation
Project management is a process of planning, organising and overseeing the resources and tasks needed to achieve specific objectives within a defined timeframe. It involves coordinating and managing people, resources and activities to ensure a project is completed on time, within budget and to the required quality standards.
Built on leading project management frameworks, this introductory course explores the foundations of effective project management through case-based simulations. This learning approach helps you absorb the principles and develop genuine operational skills transferable to your organisation.
Training all your employees in project management establishes a common language, good practices and methods for working together. Project success no longer depends solely on the project manager's determination, but also on all teams' commitment to mastering project management tools.
Objectives
By the end of this project management course, participants will be able to:
- Understand project management principles, including definition, structure and life cycle.
- Identify different project management tools and methods and apply them to the context.
- Define the needs a project addresses and the context in which it will be planned and delivered.
- Understand and implement every stage of initiating a new project.
- Carry out a project's operational planning.
- Plan and manage project risks.
- Control and resolve difficulties encountered during project execution.
- Understand the project manager's role and responsibilities.
- Plan and implement measurement of project performance and results.
- Ensure project monitoring and control through to completion.
Program
Introduction to project management
- Defining a project, programme and portfolio versus operations.
- Understanding different project life cycles: traditional, Lean/Agile and hybrid.
- Understanding organisational structures.
- Adopting a continual improvement mindset.
Initiating and starting a project
- Developing the business case.
- Calculating project profitability.
- Identifying high-level risks using SWOT.
- Identifying and analysing stakeholders using the power/interest matrix.
- Developing the project charter.
Planning a project
Defining the development approach.
Traditional planning: Waterfall and the V-model.
- Developing the project management plan.
- Building the project team and defining roles and responsibilities.
- Identifying and assessing risks: risk register, qualitative and quantitative analysis.
- Considering needs: stakeholder register and requirements traceability matrix.
- Defining scope using a WBS.
- Building the network diagram (PERT) and schedule.
- Developing the project budget.
Lean/Agile planning
- Understanding Lean/Agile approaches: Scrum, XP and Kanban.
- Identifying Scrum Team roles and responsibilities.
- Planning within the Scrum framework.
- Gathering requirements and writing user stories.
- Developing and prioritising the Product Backlog using MoSCoW.
- Planning the Sprint Backlog.
Executing and controlling a project
Executing and controlling a project
- Implementing action plans.
- Managing by earned value.
- Monitoring through key performance indicators (KPIs) and reporting.
- Engaging stakeholders.
- Managing issues and conflicts.
- Communicating and managing teams.
The Agile/Scrum approach
- Producing increments and deliverables: the Sprint.
- Conducting daily inspection: the Daily Scrum.
- Inspecting increments and deliverables: the Sprint Review.
- Improving the Sprint: the Retrospective.
- Using Agile tools and methods: Kanban, burndown and burnup charts, and more.
Closing the project
- Delivering or transferring deliverables to customers, operations and other recipients.
- Reviewing the project.
- Updating human resources information and the skills matrix.
- Communicating closure to stakeholders.
- Capturing, documenting and archiving good practices.
- Closing the budget.
- Celebrating.
Audience
This course is intended for:
- Anyone required to manage projects regularly or occasionally in a professional or voluntary-sector environment.
Prerequisites
There are no prerequisites for the Project Management Essentials course.
Teaching and assessment methods
- Initial skills assessment
- Training materials provided to participants
- Continuous assessment throughout the course
- End-of-course feedback questionnaire
- Combination of theory and practical application
- Attendance records
- Post-course follow-up evaluation
- Quiz / multiple-choice questions
- Case study
Course highlights
Training in project management fundamentals, with case studies, a summary and follow-up on learning through an assessment.
Dates and sessions
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No upcoming sessions are currently available.
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