Project Management Principles and Practices

The Principles and Practices of Project Management short course provides you with the practical know-how to schedule and authorise projects, allocating resources and setting up cost and time estimations.

During the course, you will gain insights to develop a business case for a project, initiate the project, plan its lifecycle phase, manage scope changes and deliver a scope statement, identify work packages and identify stakeholders (including their roles and responsibilities) on a project in your organisation yielding the benefits of project support systems and specialised management planning techniques. This course earns you credit towards the Programme in Project Management (PPM)

Learning Outcomes:

After successfully completing this course, you will be able to

• initiate projects,

• identify stakeholders and develop scope statements for projects in their work environment

• Manage scope changes

• Plan the life cycles of projects in their work environment

• Identify work packages, and the responsibilities and roles of stakeholders schedule projects,

• Allocate resources,

• Estimate costs and control progress of delivery

• Explain the benefits and limitations of systems such as MS Project and others, and

• Explain the basics of critical chain project management and of systems to authorise project work.

Course Content:

• Introduction to projects and project management

• Product life cycles and phases

• Initiating and defining the project

• Identifying work, responsibilities and roles

• Project time management

• Critical chain project management

• Project control

• Work authorisation

• Alternative computer systems available on the market (no hands-on computer training included in the three-day course)