Project Management Foundation Programme

A programme tailored to develop the most impactful tools and approaches to planning, monitoring and delivering a project by doing ‘just enough’ project management as merited by the nature of project and risk to the business.

FORMAT

One and a half days plus half a day follow-up project clinic with 1 trainer leading the group. Focussed on real projects. Highly interactive. Group work and work in pairs. Pre-course introductory reading. Post course e-prompts and buddy coaching help integrate learning.

THEMES

What’s going on with Project Management in your organisation?
Contrast Day Job and Projects
Contrast Manager vs Project Manager Roles
Why bother? Selling project management
The ‘just enough’ philosophy
Personal characteristics – PM values
The nature of projects
Project life-cycles
Project methodologies & selection (including life-cycle)
Initiating Projects
Planning Projects
Controlling Projects
Universal law of Project ‘Doing’
Herding chickens & managing change
Stakeholder Management
Project realities – why things go wrong
Dealing with reality – Project thermometers, health-checks, risk based tool selection, powerful questions
Balancing projects with the day job
Are you the right person for this project?

Overall course rating out of 5

Participants specifically applying what they learnt

WHAT PARTICIPANTS CAN DO AS A RESULT

Be intelligent users of PM processes
Understand lifecycles and methodologies and the difference between them
Be able to select and tailor a methodology that will be most appropriate to their project
How to do the least amount of project management possible and still be sure of a successful outcome
How to identify and monitor their project's 'vital signs'
Have a quick and easy way to assess project plans and proposals ensuring that they catch potential disasters before they happen
Have daily, weekly, and monthly routines to seamlessly incorporate structured project management into their working lives
Deal with the real world of project delivery and not the mechanical text book version
Understand the context of the project
Consider the impact of project stakeholders and the tools used to manage them
Understand the need for phases - life cycle
Apply the tools used for defining the project scope
Prepare a network diagram and carry out critical path analysis
Review the impact risk
Understand methods used for controlling projects
Use techniques to manage change
Understand the principles and practice of project handover and post project review
Understand the need and application of appropriate soft skills used to develop the team

FOR A COURSE DELIVERED AT YOUR ORGANISATION

Number of trainer(s): 1
Investment per group: £4,700.00

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Fresh and innovative ... Workshops are interactive, fun and practical and put the onus on the individual ... professional but down-to-earth Rachel Gilmore, Training & Development, Channel 4 More client feedback