Our Project Management Professional Development Program includes the basic, underlying principles of project management, through to their application in challenging situations. Our focus is on equipping participants with the disciplines, tools, templates and communication skills for immediate transfer to their workplace.
This 5 day course comprises the key learnings and outcomes from both the Project Management Fundamentals and Project Management in Practice workshops and is ideal for individuals wanting to undergo both.
What you gain from the course
Hands-on, business ready expertise that you can immediately apply
Comprehensive Project Management Fundamentals and Project Management in Practice program materials and case studies
Sought-after, industry-leading certification from Australia’s most highly accredited PM and PMO partner
About this course
In today’s fast-paced and changing economy, challenged projects almost invariably lead to significant business problems.
Accelerating and managing sustainable change through effective project delivery is the single most significant requirement of our business era. Organisations that understand and execute it effectively, prosper. Those that don’t, regularly compromise opportunity and often disappear altogether.
A direct result is an ever increasing need for professionals to supplement traditional technical skills with high value business delivery skills. In order to provide a significant contribution, Project Managers must be proficient across three critical domains:
General business acumen
Project management processes, techniques and tools
Interpersonal and business communications skills
Our Project Management Professional Development Program combines both the ‘art’ and ‘science’ of project management; from the basic, underlying principles of project management, through to their application in the many challenging situations faced daily by Project Managers.
Our focus is on equipping participants with the disciplines, tools, templates and communication skills for immediate transfer to their workplace, and to effect immediate and discernible behavioural change in delivering business benefit through project initiatives.
How this course is delivered
This Program is 5 days in duration and comprises the following modules:
Module 1: Project Management Fundamentals (2 days) (For Project Managers, Team Members and Stakeholders)
This module employs a ‘from the ground up’, end-to-end life cycle approach, introducing the fundamental principles, tools and techniques for managing projects from a project’s inception through to closure. Participants at this level may be absolute beginners, or individuals with low to moderate experience. This workshop is a ‘hands-on’ and highly practical one which uses a real-life project case study, to which the participants will immediately apply their learning. A comprehensive participant handbook is provided, and includes a set of completed sample project management documents.
For a detailed outline of the content and structure of this workshop, please refer to outline Project Management Fundamentals
Module 2: Project Management in Practice (3 days) (Applying Project Management Thinking to Everyday Project Situations)
This module uses the best practice … principles of A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide) Knowledge Areas and Processes as its foundation, to build upon participants’ existing skills and knowledge (gained either through prior Project Fundamentals training or through their experience working in a project environment). It does this by way of a ‘guided tour’ through a series of rigorous and real-life scenarios, problems and issues faced by Project Managers across the board, as well as through the provision of tools, techniques and best practice methods for successfully managing these. Project Management in Practice is led by an expert, senior level facilitator possessing a wealth of project management knowledge and long-term hands-on experience at both the project and program levels. A comprehensive participant handbook is provided.
For a detailed outline of the content and structure of this workshop, please refer to outline Project Management in Practice
Module 1 – Days 1 and 2: Project Management Fundamentals
What Makes Projects Succeed?
Reviewing project successes and their inherent characteristics
Understanding the factors that contribute to project failure and how project management disciplines and processes target these areas to ensure repeatable delivery success
The Essential Project Management Philosophy
Defining a project and project management
Exploring project management parameters – ‘Principle of Triple Constraint’ and trade-offs
Critical skills for successful project management
The Project Life Cycle
Examining life cycles and their significance within a project environment
Examining phase activities, milestones and gates
Identifying phase deliverables and their importance for ultimate project success
Project Planning
Scoping the project – understanding and defining the scope, and obtaining key stakeholder signoff
Creating the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) and scheduling
Understanding the Critical Path and how a Project Manager utilises it for greater project control
Applying estimating techniques for a more realistic and balanced estimate
Introducing procurement planning and vendor selection
Conducting/contributing to quality planning
Establishing a project baseline, against which to track progress
Project Implementation and Control
Tracking and controlling the project
Applying a disciplined change control management method
Managing third parties
Managing project quality and understanding its role within continuous organisational improvement
Reporting and communication
Closing the Project
Conducting formal project closure
Post implementation reviewing – gathering, documenting and assimilating lessons learnt
Module 2 – Days 3 to 5: Project Management In Practice
Introduction
Workshop overview
What the PMBOK® Guide says about Projects, Programs, Portfolios and their respective management
Project Management Knowledge Areas of the PMBOK® Guide and their inter-relationship with the Project Life Cycle
Project Integration Management
What the PMBOK® Guide says about Project Integration Management and its associated processes
The crucial role of the Project Manager in Project Integration Management
Project Scope Management
What the PMBOK® Guide says about Project Scope Management and its associated processes
What the Project Manager does to Manage Project Scope
Effective questioning techniques for scoping a project
A facilitation method for scoping projects
Project Communications Management
What the PMBOK® Guide says about Project Communications Management and its associated processes
How the Project Manager communicates with stakeholders
Building an effective Stakeholder Management Plan
Achieving Stakeholder buy-in
Negotiating skills for Project Managers
Project Time Management
What the PMBOK® Guide says about Project Time Management and its associated processes
Balancing the schedule against the competing demands of cost, risk and quality
Calculating the Critical Path and understanding where and how to use it to manage time constraints effectively
Project Cost Management
What the PMBOK® Guide says about Project Cost Management and its associated processes
Cost budgeting with limited information and the ‘human subjectivity’ affecting estimates
Methods for tracking and controlling costs within a project
Measuring cost performance through task and project tracking and Earned Value Management – making sense of project cost and progress reporting
Project Quality Management
What the PMBOK® Guide says about Project Quality Management and its associated processes
Balancing Product, Project and People management from a Quality perspective
Robin is the best course facilitator/ instructor I've had in 20 years of engineering. He is a superb communicator with an engaging confident reassuring style, and lots of knowledge to share.
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