Real World Project Management

- Identify and exploit project opportunities
- Define and initiate projects using waterfall or iterative methods
- Describe and fulfil key project roles
- Name and manage the key project risks and issues
- Present project activities in various forms including Gantt Chart, Network Diagram and Relationship Diagram
- Explain and use the nine principles of dynamic projects that virtually guarantee success every time
- Use time-boxing and MoSCoW prioritisation techniques to create urgency and stay on track regardless of the size of project
- Use a simple, three state reporting system to communicate project progress quickly and effectively

Course content

- When is a project not a project? – How to distinguish projects

- Learning to speak “Projectese” – Terms and concepts

- Making a plan to make a plan – Pre-project activities

- Engineering your way to project success – Specification driven projects

- Learning by doing, the iterative way – Outcome driven projects

- Who do you think you are? – Vital roles and responsibilities

- Are we all ready to go? – Pre-project checklist

- A great project, on paper – Presenting project plans

- The critical path – Choosing the right tasks to focus on

- From RAG’s to riches – Project reporting

- The iron hand in a velvet glove – Techniques for managing successful projects

- Smell the roses along the way – Because the end does not usually justify the means