Project Management
Creating High Performance Project Organisations
To achieve business benefits, project managers and their project teams need to work together to meet the project goals for both the customer and the organisation.
This programme provides insight, guidance and process consultant expertise in project management practices.
Organisation design, culture and processes are integrated to create high performance project organisations.
Specific Content
Overview of Project Management
- Identifying projects
- Producing the project concept document
Initiating the project
- Stakeholder analysis
- Running the project launch meeting
- Producing the project charter
Planning the Project
- Identifying objectives and critical success factors
- Recognising assumptions and constraints
- Producing the project scope statement
Breaking the plan down
- Identifying tasks, activities and milestones
- Using planning tools – Gantt chart, network diagram
- Creativity techniques – group exercise
Developing the Plan
- Acquiring resources
- Analysing and managing risk
- Budgeting
- Obtaining project plan sign off
Executing the Project plan
- Project team meeting
- Progress reporting
Controlling the Project
- Change management and planning
- Closing the project
- Final status report
Using the Processes
- Group exercise
Objectives
Our objective is to equip project managers with the knowledge to ensure effective and consistent project performance.
The benefits of this programme are as follows:
- More effective management of projects
- Lower levels of risk in terms of cost, quality and time associated with projects
- Improved ability to manage and monitor projects
- Less project failures
- Improved use of resources