Introduction
- Essential building blocks of a project
- The role of the project manager and team
A Structured Approach
- Creating clear project objectives
- Setting specific and measurable outputs
- Identifying necessary project activities – Work Breakdown Structure
- Organising your project structure
- Assembling and leading the project ‘team’
- Identifying and managing stakeholders – advocates and resisters
- Planning effective project communications & managing expectations
- Clarifying who does what and in what role (responsible or accountable)
Creating a Project Schedule
- Identifying activity dependency and estimating durations
- Creating a network diagram and highlighting the critical path
- Transforming network diagrams to Gantt charts
Resource Management
- Defining critical project resources requirements
- Identifying and resolving conflicts
Risk Assessment
- Identification, assessment and control
- Monitoring and control
- Staying in control
- What to measure & clarifying variance boundaries
- Enabling corrective actions
- Managing expectation and decisions making through reporting
