Effective Project Management

Successful project delivery is an important enabler of excellence. This course is designed to familiarize you with the principles of project management and learn how to manage projects to deliver successful outcomes. It aims to provide you with a structured way of thinking while keeping project management overhead to a minimum.
Target Audience
People who have projects to manage*
Prerequisites
None
Course Duration
7 Hours (including breaks)
Class Size
Minimum of 12
Course Details
This short course has been developed by a panel of project managers and PMO professionals with experience running everything from tiny projects to large multinational, multi-workstream projects. It has been carefully crafted to enable you to focus on project delivery rather than on bureaucracy. Topics covered include:
- What qualifies as a project
- Project management methodologies
- The project team
- The project life cycle
- Project governance
- Planning – scope, resources, budget
- Benefits
- Workstreams and Work Breakdown Structure
- Assumptions, risks, and issues
- Stakeholder management
- Some useful tools
- A little psychology
- Communication and reporting
The course is lecture-style with group discussion and some short exercises.