Duration
2 days
Overview
This course is designed for participants without any structured project management experience, who wish to acquire basic knowledge and skills in “real world” project management good practices. The course content also provides a sound foundation for those aspiring to continue education towards intermediate level and finally obtain professional project management credentials in the future, after they have gained sufficient project management experience.
The course provides a working understanding and awareness of a structured approach to the discipline of project management, including concepts, principles and best practices. This awareness is gained through sharing’s in the context of an actual organizational project environment and includes the elements of roles and responsibilities, processes and technology. Participants are shown how these elements work in tandem to support project management and ultimately, the organization, to increase effectiveness and business value.
Course Objectives
At the end of the course, participants will:
- Understand the discipline of Project Management and how it differs from Operational Management.
- Be aware of how organizational issues and structures affect project management, and how to work within the organizational context.
- Have a basic understanding of internationally accepted and structured project management processes and good practices.
- Be aware about the interaction between people (stakeholders), processes and project management systems in achieving project and business goals.
- Have an overview of managing stakeholder relationships and a project management methodology.
Course Benefits
Participants will gain a substantial understanding of the discipline of project management.
Participants will have the pre-requisites in order to further a course at an intermediate level in project management.
They will be better equipped to manage projects and stakeholder expectations in the organization thus increasing effectiveness and value to the organization and its business vision.
Module 1 Introduction to Project Management as a Discipline
- Welcome, Course Overview and Objectives
- Simulation exercise on an organizational project environment and identifying problems, including presentations and reviews.
- Understanding the Role of the Project Manager and other key roles in a Project Environment.
- The business goals of projects and how they support organizational strategies. How projects are supported by stakeholder expertise, organizational functions and project management systems.
Module 2 Setting Up a Project
- Initiating the Project Charter and Identifying Stakeholders. Initiation documentation
- The Project Life Cycle and Phases
- The different aspects (business, legal, structural, process, systems, roles) of initiating and setting up a project in the organization.
- Gathering and analyzing requirements from the various stakeholders.
Module 3 Planning the Project
- Planning processes (Knowledge Areas) according to the PMBOK® Guide 6th Edition
- The roles, responsibilities and decision points during the planning stage.
- Project planning documentation.
Module 4 Project Execution, Monitoring and Control
- Implementing the Project Management Plan and the distinction between the “Planned World” and the “Real World”.
- Uncertainty in projects and the value of sound Risk Management during Execution.
- Monitoring the execution and identifying deviations from the Project Plan in a timely manner to enable effective and early action.
- The importance of timely and accurate project reporting.
Module 5 Project Conclusion and Review of the Project Life Cycle
- The difference between project conclusion (closing) and project termination.
- The importance of the handover process and why it needs to be planned early.
- Tying up the loose ends: Archiving of documents, closing of contracts, demobilization of the project team.
- Lessons learned from the project.
- Final review of the course.
Programme scope, delivery arrangements and suitability are confirmed during enquiry.