Course Description
The Defining & Managing Project Success training course offers a comprehensive introduction to the fundamentals of project management. It covers essential concepts such as project management terminology, project selection, planning, estimating, scheduling, and earned value management.
This course is ideal for those new to project management or those who have been assigned to projects and need to learn how to effectively manage them. Additionally, the course highlights key aspects of quality management, risk management, and procurement. By the end of the course, you will gain a thorough understanding of project management principles and be equipped with the knowledge needed to lead a successful project.
This BII Research Project Management Essentials training course will feature:
Review & understanding of common project management practices
Hands on experience with the project charter, scope statement, & earned value management
Appraisal of projects using project selection techniques, project chartering & gathering requirements
Understand project management tools & procedures that can be implemented to improve or establish formal project management methodologies
What you will achieve
training course, participants will be able to:
- By the end of this BII Research
- Project Management Essentials
- Understand the fundamentals of project management - the ability to initiate, plan & execute basic controls for a project
- Understand the techniques of project planning and how to deliver one
- Understand how to define project success using key performance indicators & quality metrics
- Identify risks and understanding the advantages of various types of contracts
- Understand how to control, manage and close a project to your customers satisfaction
How the course is delivered
This training course will utilise a variety of proven adult learning techniques to ensure maximum understanding, comprehension and retention of the information presented. The course is highly interactive and is designed with briefings and a central project scenario as the driver for all course learning. Students will complete several elements of project work through assigned roles. Several work products will be created including a Scope statement, WBS, Risk Register, activity list, network diagram and earned value report. There will be open discussion and real world examples with the emphasis on learning by doing.
Designed for
training course is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:
- This BII Research
- Project Management Essentials
- Those who are actually or potentially involved in projects
- Business professionals who currently work on projects or are occasionally assigned to work as project team members in any business work areas
- Those who directly contribute to projects. It is ideal for candidates who are intending to start managing projects soon, need to learn project management skills quickly, or need to know how to effectively select and manage projects
Daily programme
- Understanding what project management is
- Defining project and product life cycles
- Understanding Best Practice Project Management
- How to Initiate a Project: How to do it
- Managing the project selection process
- Writing SMART objectives and business cases
- Developing the project documentation for senior management sign-offs
- Defining the project management
- Understand how to collect requirements
- Defining the full project scope
- Creating and analysing the project with Work Breakdown Structures
- Understanding what a realistic schedule is
- Defining and managing dependencies
- How to estimate project durations and costs
- Creating and optimising the project schedule
- Presenting your schedule and resource constraints
- How to control the cost, schedule and resources
- Defining and controlling project KPI’s / Metrics
- Presenting and defining the project resource plan
- Developing a communication plan
- Managing Virtual Teams
- Understanding and reviewing project risk
- Managing the project contract against project constraints
- Using project software to track projects
- Dealing with project management problems
- Project case reviews and discussion
- Project Management leadership, communications and meetings best practices
- Closing the project including project administration, hand-offs, document updates, and lessons learned
- Lessons learned, why, when and what
Certification & accreditation
BII Certificate of Completion
BII Certificate of Completion Upon successful completion, participants receive a BII Development Institute Certificate of Completion with a unique reference code that is independently verifiable. Our certificates are recognised internationally and reflect successful completion of your chosen programme.
