Introduction:
Project Management is a key management practice and is universally recognized as a mandatory discipline for line management in any size of business, or market sector. Mastering project management skills is crucial for team members who are accountable for one or more projects, or have responsibility for all, or part, of a project. Even non-project leaders will benefit from a detailed understanding of Project Management practices, which will greatly improve communications within projects, project stakeholder management, and at every level within the organization.
Project Management training will build your team members’ competencies around the skills, tools and techniques used in effective Project Management practices and techniques.
This program covers all the core competencies and strategic knowledge in line with PMP Certification and will greatly assist participants whose longer-term goal is to become a PMP Certified practitioner.
What will Participants Gain?
By the end of the program participants will be able to:
- Understand the PM process groups, phases and processes
- Define roles and responsibilities for project stakeholders
- Identify project characteristics
- Define project scope including time, cost and quality constraints
- Master the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) to build a realistic project schedules, milestones and deliverables
- Employ tools to execute, track, monitor and control your projects effectively
- Manage vendor relationships to maximize positive project outcomes
- Identify, analyze, quantify, mitigate and manage risks to reduce impact
- Manage project change through formal change control processes
- Assess, monitor and control project performance
- Effectively manage stakeholder expectations and communications
- Capture lessons learned for future benefit
- Take the steps to close your projects (and move on to the next).
Target Audience:
The program will benefit:
- Professionals leading projects who are looking for additional tools and techniques to maximize their effectiveness as a project leader.
- Project Managers looking to work towards PMP Certification
- Project Team Members
- Professionals seeking fundamental Project Management skills
- Professionals embarking on a Project Management career, or for those who need to manage projects in addition to their main job role