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Improving Your Project Management Skills: The Basics for Success

Build a solid foundation of project management knowledge, techniques and tools and boost your career.

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The Key Issues

You have been assigned to manage a project or you are participating in a project as a team member. You probably have heard or read a lot on project management. However, how do you structure the project, how do you plan it effectively and how do you take control over its implementation?
How able are you to establish and explain the scope, schedule, cost and quality of your projects? How do you measure progress and success against those factors?

Project management skills

Managing the workloads

Change management

Key Competences​

Using key
PM tools

Managing resources & costs

Risk
management

The Right Programme for You

You are a manager and have run some projects already. You want to move to the next level and improve your project management skills, learn about key tools and deliver projects on time and on budget

  • Business Professionals
  • New Managers
  • Managers
  • Senior Managers

Highlights

Use the SMART model to define project requirements

Develop your own Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)

Use the Project Triangle (triple constraints) to plan

Learn, Practice and Use

  • Ensure that your projects are set up for success from the start
  • Learn the basics for effectively gathering and documenting requirements
  • Understand the role of the project manager, business analyst, and others in managing projects
  • Develop an integrated project plan including realistic scope, schedules, budgets, and risks—and turn that plan into successful action
  • Learn how to effectively track and report on project progress
  • Gain the respect of your project team and build credibility with top management
  • Create a project communications plan
  • Identify the elements of administrative and contractual project closure procedures
  • Schedule the workloads for all the project team members
  • Share your knowledge and challenges with your peers and MCE's highly experienced faculty

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Programme Details

Improving Your Project Management Skills: The Basics for Success is a 3-day or 4 live online sessions hands-on training programme. Highly interactive with exercises and role plays.

Nine Programme Modules

  • Define the Basic Project Management Framework
  • Describe Key Project Management Terminology
  • Explain the Triple Constraints (Project Triangle)
  • Differentiate Between Operations and Projects
  • Describe Project Management in a Business Context
  • Describe How Projects Are Initiated
  • Describe the Difference Between Project Requirements and Product Requirements
  • Describe the Purpose and Content of the Project Charter
  • Describe the Purpose and Content of the Product Requirements Document
  • Use the SMART Model When Writing Requirements
  • Identify Information-Gathering Techniques
  • Discuss the Purpose of a Kick-Off Meeting
  • Develop a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
  • Discuss Guidelines for Making Better Estimates
  • Explain the Use of Three-Point Estimates
  • Describe Task Dependencies
  • Identify the Sequence of Tasks via Precedence Diagramming
  • Develop the Project Schedule
  • Determine the Personnel Costs Needed for the Success of the Project
  • Determine the Expense Costs Needed for the Success of the Project
  • Differentiate Between Bottom-Up and Top-Down Cost Budget Planning, and State Which Is More Appropriate for Different Situations
  • Create the Project Communications Plan
  • Describe the Project Risk
  • Management Processes
  • Describe the Purpose of the Project Procurement Plan
  • Discuss the Purpose of Reserves
  • Create a Project Status Report
  • Describe the Key Elements Required to Determine Project Health
  • Describe How to Run an Effective Project Status Meeting
  • Describe the Change Management Process
  • Identify the Elements of Both Administrative and Contractual Project Closure Procedures
  • Describe the Different Ways That Projects Can Be Terminated
  • Explain the Importance of a Repository and Lessons Learned
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Bettina
Hausmann

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Bettina
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Hausmann

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Hausmann

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