Management Development >> Running Successful Projects
Overview
This course is designed to enable participants to fully understand the principles of effective project management and to equip them with the skills to run successful projects with links to, though not specifically covering Prince2 and Microsoft Project.
Objectives
- Understanding the key components of successful project management and why it is different from normal working practice
- Defining a project, the roles, responsibilities and scope
- Be able to effectively plan and monitor a project
- Managing the project in key stages to make it easier to manage
- Increase confidence by being able to clearly communicate throughout the project
Course Overview
What is a project?
- Defining what successful project management is
- Why do some projects succeed and others don’t
Planning your project
- Clearly define your projects
- The role of the project manager
- Setting and agreeing objectives
- Project life-cycle (including a checklist for each stage
- Feasibility
- Definition
- Planning
- Action/implementation
- Completion/ handover
Monitoring and keeping the project on-track
- Monitoring and controlling the project
- Understanding the critical path (and float time)
- Using network diagrams and Gantt Charts
- Sample definitions
- Success criteria
- Cost monitoring
- Risk analysis
- Communicating the status of the project clearly
At the end of the course you will have completed a detailed action plan for further development