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Improving Your Project Management Skills: The Essentials for Success
Project Management is one of today's fastest growing professions and has therefore become a distinctive discipline. With organisation structures and business environments changing rapidly, it is not just experienced Project Managers that find themselves involved in company projects. Most organisations now manage all facets of their business through a project-oriented approach.

This unique programme provides an opportunity to obtain comprehensive understanding of the essentials of project management. You will gain an effective set of tools and techniques to manage your project's time, cost and quality to attain your organisation goals.

WORKSHOP OBJECTIVES
  • How to manage an entire project from beginning to end efficiently through concepts of earned value analysis
  • How to plan, baseline and control a project plan effectively
  • An detailed understanding of the nine functions of project management
  • How to scope a project and develop a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
  • How to manage projects within the constraints of time & cost
  • Identify, Analyse and Manage project risks and develop contingencies to overcome them
Group discussions and several exercises will provide the opportunity to apply the knowledge. Leave this course with a deeper understanding of what is needed to deliver successful project outcomes.

COURSE OUTLINE

  • Project Management Overview
  • - The characteristics of a project
    - The Project Life Cycle
    - The role and responsibility of a Project Manager
    - Project Management Principles
  • Project Stakeholders
  • - Who are Project Stakeholders?
    - How to manage Project Stakeholders
  • Project Planning
  • - Elements of Project Management
    - The Control Plan
    - Scope Definition
    - Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
    - Communicating with the Gantt chart
  • Project Budget
  • - What is a Budget?
    - Develop a Preliminary Budget and Schedule Balancing
  • Quality Management
  • - Project Quality Management Overview
    - Quality Planning and Assurance
    - Quality Control Process
  • Risk Management
  • - Risk Management Overview
    - Risk Planning
    - Risk Identification and Analysis
  • Communications Management
  • - Project Communication Planning
    - Ways to improve and manage communications
  • Human Resource Management
  • - Key concepts for managing people
    - Human Resource Planning
  • Project Contract and Procurement
  • Project Integration
  • Project Monitoring, Control & Finalisation


WHO SHOULD ATTEND

This programme is specially developed for anyone who needs a solid grounding in the essentials of project management. It can also be a refresher programme for those who would like to refresh their project management skills and knowledge. This also includes managers of all levels who are not project managers by profession but 'accidental project managers'.

If you have any queries or would like to request our complete brochure, please email us at enquiry@ssg-apac.com