One Day Intensive Programme

Introduction to Project Management

• What is a project? - differentiating between a project and your day-to-day tasks
• Defining what we mean by project management
• The role of the project manager
• Skills of the project manager

The Project Life Cycle

• A four-staged approach to managing projects
• Project definition - setting objectives, scope and constraints
• Agreeing objectives with the project sponsor

Organising the Project

• Managing the established milestones
• Getting to grips with information management
• Managing project costs - what you need to know

Implementing and Controlling Projects

• Keeping activities on track
• Handling the changes and challenges that affect projects
• Running effective change control processes
• Monitoring performance
• Dealing with problems to keep the project on track
• Making the right decisions
• Dealing with requests for change
• Risk monitoring and issues logs

Effective Project Communication

• The essentials of effective project communications
• Gaining support and maintaining commitment to the project
• Promoting the project and keeping it alive

Project Close

• Personal Action Plan
• Feedback Time
• Closedown

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