Duration

Project Management Workshop

2 days

Course Overview

This course is designed to teach participants all the principles of good project management and understand the difference between Waterfall and Agile project management approach. Participants will learn how to identify and schedule project resources and create project flow charts. Important issues of team management are also covered. These learning objectives are reinforced by a course project that allows the participant to apply the principles and use the tools they learned. The programme helps students to develop the ability to solve real-world problems, exercise sound management judgment and develop efficient decision-making skills through Knowledge Management and governance in the project environment.

Target Audience

Individuals interested in learning all the principles of good project management.
Ideal for project managers, supervisors, engineers, project directors

Learning Outcomes

Participants will learn how to use project management techniques to plan, organize, control, document, and close out their projects successfully by adapting the best practices framework in order to meet customer’s project’s requirements on time.

Upon successful completion of this course, participants will be able to:

Discuss the phases of the Project Management Life Cycle and a project manager's role in each phase.
Be aware of the career opportunities within Project environment
List and discuss basic project success criteria and common reasons for project failure.
Understand the difference between Waterfall and Agile Project approach
Understand techniques for collecting requirements, defining the quality criteria and deciding on the scope of project
Discuss techniques for setting up a strong project team.
List and discuss elements of a Risk Management Plan.
Discuss techniques for planning and sequencing project activities
List and discuss the cost elements that should be included in a project budget.
Understand the progress of project through Earned Value Management
Discuss techniques for controlling for deviation from budgets and schedules.
Discuss key elements of project management communications and reporting tools.
Understand the importance of Knowledge Management

Learning Methodologies

This course shall comprise of the following training methods:

Interactive Sessions
Case Studies
Problem Solving Exercises
Group Discussions
Management Games
Presentations
Hands on practical assignment

Module 1: The Project Management Life Cycle

What is a Project?
Understand the history of project management
Types of project management careers
Understand the growing need for better project management
Describe what project management is and discuss key elements of the project management framework
Difference between Waterfall and Agile Project Management approach
The Project Management Life Cycle
The Role of the Project Manager

Module 2: The Project Management Processes: A Case Study

Describe the five project management processes, the typical level of activity for each, and the interactions among them
Review a case study of an organization applying the project management processes to manage a project
Understand the contribution that effective processes makes to project success
Identifying project stakeholders and strategies
Governance within project management framework

Module 3: Setting Up for Success

What Happens in the Initiation Phase?
Project Definition and Scope
Putting Together a Project Proposal
Presenting a winning proposal
Better project outcomes through Knowledge Management

Module 4: The Project Team

The Teamwork Challenge
Selecting Team Members

Module 5: Risk Management

Understand what risk is and the importance of good project risk management
Discuss the elements involved in risk management planning
List common sources of risks on projects
Describe the risk identification process and tools and techniques to help identify project risks
Provide examples of using different risk response planning strategies such as risk avoidance, acceptance, transference, and mitigation
Discuss what is involved in risk monitoring and control
Explain the results of good project risk management

Module 6: Identifying Project Task

How to identify and breakdown the project task
Sequencing the task

Module 7: Project Quality Management

Project quality planning
Quality assurance and quality control

Module 8: Project Human Resource Management

Planning project human resources
Managing project human resources

Module 9: The Project Schedule

The Scheduling Process
Time Estimates

Module 10: The Project Budget

What is a Budget?
Creating Project Budget
Calculating Earned Value Management

Module 11: Project Tracking and Control

Moving the Project Forward
Monitoring for Project Progress
Systematic document storage and project repository

Module 12: Project Close-out

Elements of Close-out

About Trainer :

Ravindran Chelliah is a consultant specializing in management best practices in project management and performance improvement within the organization. He has over 20 years of business management experience in the areas of public relations, business analysis, risk assessment and process improvement. His expertise spans from managing projects to being involved in software development/maintenance and production environments involved in continuous improvement and automating entire life cycle using ITIL, PMP, PRINCE2, Agile Scrum and COBIT5 framework with latest devops tools and techniques from design and architecture, through implementation, deployment, and successful operations.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

He is highly passionate about human potential and believes that anyone can achieve ' Peak Performance' with the right attitude, guidance and knowledge. He strongly believes that every individual is capable of maximizing his or her own potential and talent to achieve excellence and they should continuously pursue the creative discovery of their abilities.

Some of his consulting assignments include certification programs recognized worldwide, conducted for C-level leaders, senior management teams, general managers, executives and blue collar workers. Ravi has done work in Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei Darussalam, Myanmar, Cambodia and Vietnam and has worked with many large corporations.

He is passionate in the areas of project management and would like to see more projects delivered on time and with the expected quality or beyond, using the principles that is available today. He has had experiences in the project management area from the time he started his working career in many different facets of the industry. He has taught many participants on the principles of Project Management and have had the opportunity to see differences being made in management of projects and more success being derived out of the concepts learned.

EXPERIENCE

Have more than 15 years of project management experience having transferred expertise to more than 30,000 people
Worked with German, American and Holland based companies and was exposed to the best practices within the organization

ACHIEVEMENTS

Organizations recorded higher performance immediately after transfer of knowledge
Transformed clients organization by adopting world class management practices

PROFESSIONAL ACCREDITATION

Bc. Sc. Business Management
Certified Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL)
Certified Exin Agile Scrum Master
Certified Exin Siam Foundation
Business Analyst Professional
Certified Agile Project Practitioner
Certified Prince2 Project Mgmt Practitioner
Certified TTT Trainer (HRDF)
IASSC International Certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt

SPECIALIZATION

Project Management
IT Service Management (ITIL)
Agile Scrum Master
Service Integration Management
DevOps
Business Analysis
Lean Six Sigma
Problem Solving / Management
Risk Management

Value Added Services:

Pre – post test
E-Cert of completion.
Hassle free – fully HRDF claimable.

Thank you

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

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