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1-Day Project Management Roles & Responsibilities and Boundaries

Course outline

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Duration

1 day

Overview

This course is intended for professionals in project organisations to understand their roles and responsibilities, including organisational boundaries to work within. The objectives for doing so are to formalise roles and responsibilities, avoid unnecessary conflicts among different project stakeholders, streamline project operations, and improve accountability.

Objectives

  • Recognise roles, and provide support to project teams and other stakeholders
  • Managing stakeholders to create a win-win project solution
  • Understand project management best practices in organisational design, job functions, and communicating the project to stakeholders

Course Syllabus

Management considerations on:

  • Functional-matrix-projectised organisation hierarchies.
  • Project management roles and responsibilities: defining executive management, project manager and team member roles, accountability, and responsibilities.
  • Complementing the existing organisational policies and procedures, form and organisation structure.
  • Project management stakeholders and their implications on projects.
  • Stakeholder conflicts of interest, and how to resolve them.
  • Executive support for projects.
  • Executive management leadership in projects.
  • Setting up a Project Management Office (PMO), and its roles.

The recognised standard in Project Management

  • The project life cycle – initiation-planning-execution-control-closeout phases.
  • The ten knowledge areas within the Project Management Book of Knowledge (PMBOK) 5th Edition, 2013 – scope, time, cost, quality, risk, human resource, communications, procurement, stakeholder management, and integration.
  • Adopting suitable PMBOK processes to complement existing organisational policies and procedures.

Training Approach

The tempo of the training is light-hearted and fast-paced. Our experience suggests that this makes people actually look forward to attending our training sessions and reinforces the motivational effects.

Methodology

Presentation and real case studies.

Programme scope, delivery arrangements and suitability are confirmed during enquiry.