Designed for those with limited or no previous training in project management to provide practical strategies to ensure projects are well planned and managed, effectively controlled and successfully implemented.
About
Do you have what it takes to execute a project on time and to budget?
Project Management may not be your core function but it is quickly becoming a cardinal skill for most industries and disciplines. Many managers are increasingly involved in managing multiple projects, developing strategic plans and controlling a diverse range of people, events and resources within a set time frame and budget. These projects can be as diverse as launching a new product, implementing new infrastructures, new devices, engineering and construction of buildings, vehicles or even relocating an office.
To help you further enhance your project management competence or get you started on the right foot, Bright*Star’s Essential Skills of Successful Project Management has been designed to provide you with the critical skills to develop your strategic thinking and create the right culture and systems to ensure successful management and timely delivery of your projects. If project management is new to you or if you feel that you will benefit from some constructive and practical guiding principles, Essential Skills of Successful Project Management is the right course for you.
Like many of the other Bright*Star courses, Essential Skills of Successful Project Management does not only emphasise on the theories and principles of project management. This dynamic course takes on the approach that encourages the sharing of ideas and discussion of real-life experiences and issues with your contemporaries and course facilitator. You will emerge from the course well-informed and able to align your project with your organisation’s activities to consistently deliver successful results.
8 GREAT REASONS TO ATTEND
You will benefit from:
1. Understanding the principles of successful project management
2. Developing the scope of your project and developing a successful framework
3. Learning to set individual and team objectives throughout the project lifecycle
4. Managing your time, cost and grade trade-offs by establishing clear expectations from the outset
5. Dealing and managing with changes throughout the project
6. Leading your project team to achieve their best results by gaining commitment, trust and motivation
7. Recognising the needs of your stakeholders and how project change affects your relationship
8. Learning the skills to close and implement your project
Outline
Getting Started – What is a Project?
• Understanding the methodology, tools and techniques to manage projects
• Prioritising which projects to do and when
• Identifying the benefits for the organisation
• Aligning project goals and specifications with your business objectives
Planning Your Project
• What’s in scope and what’s not?
• Effective planning and realistic scheduling to determine what needs to be done
• Types of contingency to include in planning
• Establishing the project management roles and responsibilities
Dealing With Change: Managing Resources
• Dealing with proposed changes to the project scope
• Running project meetings that make a difference
• Managing changes to processes and day-to-day functions
• Balancing
Making It Happen
• Setting frequent goals to improve your time management
• Setting and controlling project budgets
• Introducing effective quality initiatives
• Trapping and disseminating best practices
Project Risk Management
• Identifying sources, analysing and prioritising risk to projects
• Managing external clients and suppliers
• Planning your response to risks
Project Monitoring - Keeping Your Project on Track
• Managing stakeholder expectations: getting commitment
• Implementing project control and reporting structures
• Monitoring activities and performance levels
• Reporting to the Sponsor and Steering Committee
Time Management
• Exercising effective time management skills
• Setting individual and team objectives throughout the project lifecycle
• Overcoming procrastination
• Adopting appropriate delegation styles to suit your team members
Getting the Most from Your People: Managing Your Strategic Relationships
• Developing the project group into an effective team
• Inviting, accepting and acting on feedback
• Negotiating conflict for improved project performance
• Using different mediums to disseminate information to your stakeholders
Successfully Completing Your Project
• Closing the project: handing the project over, termination, appraisal, audit
• Effective techniques for capturing important lessons learnt
• Implementing the results and conducting a successful post project follow-up
Facilitator
Harvey Calder
Harvey is a project director and management consultant with over 30 years of international experience in ICT. He has a background in both Telecommunications and IT, and has been at the forefront of bringing the two disciplines together - crafting some of New Zealand’s earliest and largest true ICT convergent solutions.
Harvey has extensive knowledge and experience in leading successful IT projects. He has managed offshore developments, remote project teams, and delivered mission critical systems in tight timeframes. His understanding of project management, applications development, ITIL, operations management, and business change allows a holistic perspective and when combined with his experience in recovering projects, provides a pragmatic approach to the successful delivery of ICT projects. His clients include NZ’s blue-chip companies, public sector, World-bank and APEC.
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