Successful Project Management

Course Profile

Introduction to project management

• The benefits of project management: why projects fail
• Using a project management framework to support effective delivery
• The business case: what it is and why is it important to the project?
• Key roles in projects:

Laying the foundations

• Understanding project paperwork
• Scoping your project – developing agreed objectives
• Stakeholder management
• Ensuring risks are identified and actively managed
• Developing a project communication plan to enhance engagement

Planning for success through planning

• Practical planning for an effective project plan
  • Developing a work and product breakdown structure
  • Identifying dependencies
  • How to produce realistic estimates (of time and cost)
  • Key charts to help in the delivery of the project including Gantt, milestone and critical path analysis
• RACI – responsibility assignment matrix

Monitoring and controlling the project

• Delivering the project through effective monitoring
• Key principles of project governance– linking decision making, risk and stakeholder management
• The project management delivery cycle
• Taking remedial action
• Lessons learned
• The project support office

Delivering and closing your project

• Reviewing the project to ensure it delivers against the business case and project objectives
• Project management review meetings
• Keeping everyone ‘on board’ – influencing the key stakeholders
• Formally closing the project and handing over