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?

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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• New Manager Masterclass
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