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UNDERSTAND THE FUNDAMENTALS OF PROJECT MANAGEMENT AND TO IDENTIFY THE KEY ACTIONS THEY MUST TAKE AT EACH STAGE OF A PROJECT TO MANAGE IT IN THE MOST EFFECTIVE WAY.

 

WHAT IS PROJECT MANAGEMENT?

Projects are jobs that have defined start and end dates. Unlike “business as usual” tasks, projects set out to achieve certain criteria with limited resources such as time, budget and equipment. The ability to manage these projects involves defining the project scope, keeping the resources within schedule and budget and meeting any other parameters like safety and risk management.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN:

  • What is a project?
  • Stages in the life of a project
  • Role of a project manager
  • Define a project: scoping the project, project stakeholders, delegating authority and project parameters, responsibility and reporting requirements, project relationship to other projects and organisation objectives, resource availability
  • Develop a project plan: Project plan timelines, task breakdown and roles and responsibilities, using project management tools, project risk management plan, including workplace health and safety (WHS), project budget development and approval, team consultation on plan, plan finalisation and approval
  • Initiate, administer and monitor a project: initiating a project and briefing the team, supporting the team, record keeping, managing finances, resources and quality, reporting, risk management, achieving project deliverables
  • Finalise a project: completing financial records, re-assigning staff, completing documentation and sign offs, handover
  • Review a project: review outcomes and processes against plan, team involvement in review, lessons learned, documenting and reporting learning’s from the project

HOW WILL YOU BENEFIT FROM THIS COURSE?

  • Keep projects on track to meet budget and schedule
  • Learn to plan out a project
  • Understand and implement contingency planning
  • Use skills for any project – business or personal

HOW WILL YOUR ORGANISATION BENEFIT FROM THIS COURSE?

  • Develop clear guidelines for projects
  • Appropriate reporting will be provided to relevant stakeholders
  • Clear key performance indicators (KPIs) for success or failure

DURATION

2 days

SUGGESTED COURSES, MODULES AND PROGRAMS TO COMBINE WITH

  • Graduate program
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