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Project Management Foundation Programme

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.


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?

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

FOLLOW UP PROGRAMME

We make sure that learning continues beyond the classroom

  • E-prompts: behavioural reminders and coaching style questions to maximise learning
  • Action cards: self-addressed cards with action reminders
  • Online questionnaire: measure the impact of the programme

GUARANTEE

Our results and service quality are exemplary. We know because we listen to our clients. We offer a rock solid money back guarantee to prove it. We guarantee that:

  • Workshop participant feedback will at least be consistently good about the facilitator and the workshop
  • You will look back on your investment and be completely satisfied that we were the right choice of provider for you and your organisation

FOR A COURSE DELIVERED AT YOUR ORGANISATION

Number of trainer(s): 1

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