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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.

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

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

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

1 | The Project Management Framework

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

2 | Initiate the Project

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

3 | Identify the Work

Discuss the Purpose of a Kick-Off Meeting
Develop a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)

4 | Estimate the Work

Discuss Guidelines for Making Better Estimates
Explain the Use of Three-Point Estimates

5 | Schedule the Work

Describe Task Dependencies
Identify the Sequence of Tasks via Precedence Diagramming
Develop the Project Schedule

6 | Create the Budget

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

7 | Complete the Plan

Create the Project Communications Plan
Describe the Project Risk
Management Processes
Describe the Purpose of the Project Procurement Plan
Discuss the Purpose of Reserves

8 | Execute the Plan

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

9 | Close the Project

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

Faculty

Bettina
Hausmann

Testimonials

"“It is a perfect possibility to connect with people from different industries, who are dealing with the same issues.”

Agata Kulik, Product Manager Special Salts, Jungbunzlauer Ladenburg GmbH, Germany”

“Facilitator, content, tools, methods, room were very good and fitted to the participants and their needs.”

Andreas Armenat, Head of Production, GO Generics & Standard Solutions, Fresenius Kabi AG, Germany

“Very interesting topics, international and multicultural environment. Very professional coach.”

Alessandro Foresio, Vice President,
Logic S.p.A., Italy

“The subjects covered were extremely relevant and gave input to my personal development.”

Rosa Karen Schmidt, Senior VP-Assistant, Novo Nordisk, Denmark

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Testimonials

"“It is a perfect possibility to connect with people from different industries, who are dealing with the same issues.”

Agata Kulik, Product Manager Special Salts, Jungbunzlauer Ladenburg GmbH, Germany”

“Facilitator, content, tools, methods, room were very good and fitted to the participants and their needs.”

Andreas Armenat, Head of Production, GO Generics & Standard Solutions, Fresenius Kabi AG, Germany

“Very interesting topics, international and multicultural environment. Very professional coach.”

Alessandro Foresio, Vice President,
Logic S.p.A., Italy

“The subjects covered were extremely relevant and gave input to my personal development.”

Rosa Karen Schmidt, Senior VP-Assistant, Novo Nordisk, Denmark

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Improving Your Project Management Skills: The Basics for Success

The Key Issues

Project management skills

Managing the workloads

Change management

Key Competences​

Using key PM tools

Managing resources & costs

Risk management

The Right Programme for You

Highlights

Develop your own Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)

Use the Project Triangle (triple constraints) to plan

Learn, Practice and Use

Programme Details

Nine Programme Modules

Faculty

BettinaHausmann

BettinaHausmann

BettinaHausmann

BettinaHausmann

BettinaHausmann

Testimonials

"“It is a perfect possibility to connect with people from different industries, who are dealing with the same issues.”

“Facilitator, content, tools, methods, room were very good and fitted to the participants and their needs.”

“Very interesting topics, international and multicultural environment. Very professional coach.”

“The subjects covered were extremely relevant and gave input to my personal development.”

Upcoming Programmes

Contact Us

Contact Us

Testimonials

"“It is a perfect possibility to connect with people from different industries, who are dealing with the same issues.”

“Facilitator, content, tools, methods, room were very good and fitted to the participants and their needs.”

“Very interesting topics, international and multicultural environment. Very professional coach.”

“The subjects covered were extremely relevant and gave input to my personal development.”

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