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Managing a project so that it is completed on time, within budget and achieving its goals has now become part of many people's working life. A project can range from a few days duration to several years. It can involve one or two people, or many people from different departments, sites, or even countries. There are several elements that are fundamental to planning and managing a successful project, whether large or small. This course provides the fundamental skills of project management: an understanding of the key stages in a project's life cycle, and the ability to use the standard "tools of the trade" to ensure the project is completed successfully.

Course Description

Project definition

• setting the project’s objective
• identifying measures of success

Project life cycle

• identifying the different phases of a project
• start and finish times

Tools

• Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
• PERT chart
• Gantt chart

Time analysis

• Critical Path Analysis (CPA)

Project risks

• identifying risks and planning how to manage them
• making provision in the budget

Resource scheduling

• Organisation Breakdown Structure (OBS) to allocate resources and responsibilities
• identifying where resource problems may occur
• identifying solutions using time and resource limited scheduling or levelling
• resource analysis to calculate overloads and underloads

Costs

• calculating component and total costs

Tracking progress

• using progress information to reforecast planned timescales, resources, costs, outcomes, quality measures
• reporting progress to others

Managing changes to project specification

Post project review

Cegos UK ASET accredited in-Company programme:
Foundation Certificate in Project Management Best Practice

Who Should Attend

Those new to project management who need to know the basic principles, and those who may wish to compare their own methods with ‘best practice’.

Course Objectives

By the end of the course participants will be able to:

• define, plan, implement, track and update their project using standard project management tools
• identify risks to the project and how to manage them
• decide how best to measure progress and report it to others
• calculate the component and total cost of the project

Course Duration

2 days