Program Outline
About this Program
This practical project management course equips participants with the skills and confidence to successfully lead workplace projects from initiation through to completion. Using best-practice project management methodologies, participants learn how to plan, execute, manage and close projects effectively.
The course focuses on essential project management skills including planning, communication, collaboration, stakeholder engagement and risk management to support successful project outcomes across a range of workplace environments.
Like all People Tank programs, the workshop is practical, interactive and designed for immediate workplace application, with opportunities for reflection, discussion and real-world learning throughout.
Program Topics
Module 1 - Initiate Your Project
Introduction
• Program outline and expectations
• The 4 stages of the project life cycle
• The PMBOK project methodology.
Project initiation
• Who is your client or sponsor?
• Clarify your project objective(s)
• Determine what’s ‘in’ and ‘out’ of scope.
Refine your project scope
• Don’t reinvent the wheel
• Analyse your stakeholders
• Identify your project constraints and priorities
• Document your assumptions
• Develop a risk management plan
• Finalise your deliverables
• Estimate time and cost and consider responsibilities
• Develop a project management charter.
Module 2 - Plan Your Project
Project planning
• What makes a quality project plan?
• Purpose of a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
• Identify your project deliverables and tasks.
Scheduling and Budgeting
• Steps to defining a clear project schedule
• Generate a schedule, milestones and Gantt chart
• Determine the specific project budget.
Support Your Plan
• Assign roles and responsibilities
• Apply a RACI matrix to your project
• Prepare for scope creep
• Define your change control process
• Determine your communications strategy
• Finalise your project plan.
Module 3 - Execute and Close Your Project
Implement and track your project
• Conduct a project kick off meeting
• The role of a Project Manager during execution
• Monitor project progress
• Responding to issues and changes
• Project reporting and communication.
Close your project
• Verify client/sponsor acceptance
• Conduct your project team review
• Complete your final project close report
• Archive your documentation
• Finalise all project communications.
Apply the project methodology
• Your project checklist
• Influence positive project outcomes
• Prepare key documents for a relevant workplace project.
Be the change
• Identify relevant actions that can be applied to your workplace projects.
Delivery Options
• 2x full days
• The program can also be delivered as 4x half days or 4x 3hr online modules.
Audience
• This course that is suitable for anyone getting started in project management and also those who have experience with project work and are looking to formalise their learning and skills
• The course provides a project management framework that is applicable to individuals who manage projects of any size and complexity and it can be applied to both internal and external projects.
• Whilst the course focuses on end to end project management it is also recommended for projects contributors who are responsible for a component of the project process.
Key Outcomes
In this course, participants will:
• Determine the best project governance structure
• Identify project constraints, priorities and assumptions
• Assess and mitigate project risks
• Engage effectively with stakeholders and partners to secure buy in
• Clarify and validate project scope and deliverables
• Document and implement a project initiation plan (project charter)
• Determine a project breakdown structure so that manageable tasks can be verified, quantified, costed and resourced
• Identify appropriate relationships and dependencies between tasks and generate a project schedule with milestones
• Clarify roles and responsibilities across a project team
• Develop a robust project communications plan
• Determine a rigorous change control process
• Track and monitor project progress and respond to issues and changes appropriately
• Deliver on stakeholder expectations and effectively close a project
• Apply project management tools and templates to a relevant workplace project.
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