The Complete Course on Project Management

Overview:

Introduction:

Project Management has gone beyond being merely a personal skill set. It is now considered a vital organizational competency. So whether you are charged with increasing your organization's total project management capability or you are playing a role in a project, you will find this course offering a complete guide for managing any type of project. The course is designed to help you master the science of project management and to provide you with a solid foundation for the art of project management and leadership.

Course Objectives:

At the end of this course the participants will be able to:

• Develop an understanding of project selection methods.
• Gain practical tips, advice and insight from an experienced project manager.
• Examine simple and advanced project planning techniques.
• Improve understanding of incorporating risk in project planning.
• Review best practices in project planning and control.

Targeted Audience:

• Contracts Managers 
• Contract Administrators
• Contract Professionals
• Project Managers
• Project Coordinators
• Project Controllers
• Engineers or Contracts Operatives

Course Outlines:

Unit 1: The World of Project Management:

• Project lifecycle model.
• Classic and modern project constraints and parameters.
• The concept of project management maturity.
• Selecting projects to meet organizational goals.
• Aggregating projects into programs and portfolios.
• Establishing a project support office.
• Considering and confronting uncertainty in project selection decisions.
• Project data, information, and knowledge management.
• The art, science, and practice of project management.
• Case Studies and Group Exercises.

Unit 2: Project Planning, Scheduling, and Budgeting:

• Project plan vs. Project planning.
• Strategic, tactical and operational planning.
• The contents of a project plan.
• Level of detail in scheduling.
• Network logic and dependency analysis.
• Project uncertainty and risk management.
• Introducing uncertainty in planning.
• Fundamentals of budgeting & cost control.
• Methods of budgeting.
• Improving cost estimates.
• Best practices of project planning, scheduling, and budgeting.
• Case Studies and Group Exercises.

Unit 3: Project Resourcing, Monitoring, and Control:

• Resource allocation.
• Expediting a project.
• Allocating scarce resources to projects.
• The Critical Chain approach.
• Designing the monitoring cycle.
• Performance indicators and feedback mechanisms.
• Earned value management.
• Designing the change-control system.
• Proactive management and plan updating.
• Case Studies and Group Exercises.

Unit 4: The Project Manager’s Roles and Responsibilities:

• Selection of the Project Manager.
• Project Team-building and empowerment.
• Team management challenges.
• Delegating with confidence.
• Communication within the project team.
• Project team leadership.
• Multidisciplinary teams.
• Conflict handling.
• Best practices of people-based project management.
• Case Studies and Group Exercises.

Unit 5: Project Evaluation, Reporting, Closure, and Hand-over:

• Evaluation criteria.
• Project auditing.
• Project review meetings.
• Analyzing project performance.
• Progress reports and records.
• Determinants of project success.
• Successful project hand-over.
• Lessons learned and creating learning culture.
• Best practices of project evaluation, reporting and closure.