A Foundation in Project Management Skills
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24th Nov 2010 |
This course forms part of a CMI Certificate in Leadership and Management
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a highly practical day that will equip you with essential project management skills to use in your everyday work, including project planning, risk management, and creating effective project teams
Learning Objectives
- Gain an understanding of project and programme management
- Learn how to plan a project
- Learn how to deploy a range of techniques and tools for effective project planning & management
- Understand the Project cycle, including objectives, feasibility studies, planning, implementation, management, monitoring and evaluation
- Understand the structure, role and responsibilities of Project teams
- Learn the uses of MS project and Prince 2 (However, please note this is not a Prince 2 course!)
- Learn how to carry out effective risk assessment and management
- Understand some of the key principles Understand the human aspects of project management
Programme
| 9:15 | Registration |
| 9:45 | Welcome & Introduction
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| 10:00 | Project and Programme Management – Definitions |
| - | The Main Stages of Project Management |
| - | Critical Path Analysis
(group exercise) |
| - | Refreshments |
| - | The Key Aspects of PRINCE 2 and Microsoft Project |
| - | HR Aspects
The Main Players; their roles and Project Team development and operation |
| - | Risk and Risk Management - group exercise |
| 13:00 | Lunch |
| - | Project Management Road Map |
| - | Creating a Project Plan
(group exercise using delegate’s own examples) |
| - | Refreshments |
| - | Report Back
(presentations by each group, and discussion and feed back) |
| - | Summary |
| 16:30 | Close |
Please note that the programme is subject to change without notice
