Project Management: Practical Tools & Techniques

In today's world, managing and working on projects is a core responsibility for most managers and professionals.Whatever the scale or nature of the project – from building a new installation to organising the office move or managing an exhibition - success depends upon understanding and applying in practical and relevant ways the basic concepts and tools of project management.

This course, Project Management: Practical Tools & Techniques, offers an introduction to these concepts and tools and an opportunity to explore the factors which determine project success or failure.It also provides a foundation for anyone getting to grips with using published software packages for project management.

Course Membership

• Managers and professionals who have responsibility for managing projects.

• Staff, at all levels, who work on projects and who need to develop their understanding of project management.

Course ObjectivesTo help participants:

• understand what constitutes a project

• clearly define and appraise projects

• successfully plan and design projects

• control the implementation and evaluation of projects

Course Outline

• Project definition - what is a project?

• Identifying and focussing on the project

• Project appraisal – is it valid in terms of payback and risk

• Project planning:

  - Work Breakdown Structure

  - Activity charts

  - PERT

  - Critical Path Analysis

  - Gantt charts

• Contingency analysis and risk

• Costing and budgets

• Quality assurance and change control

• Reporting processes

• Implementing and tracking

• Project closure and review

Course Methods

Project Management: Practical Tools & Techniques is built around a mixture of input, discussion, and exercises. Activities include a major case study. Time will also be given over to participants' own 'live' projects.