Manage workplace projects

You'll learn

• How to develop a project plan, tailored to your workplace.
• How to successfully manage a project and allocate resources.
• Techniques for effective “closure” – finishing the project and reviewing results.

You'll be able to

• More confidently manage a straightforward project or elements of a complex project.

Course outline

• Project management defined
• What is project management?
• The project lifecycle
• Three basic project objectives
• Managing your project
• Project plan development
• Identifying risk
• The project planning process
• Elements of a project plan
• Scope
• Stakeholders
• Project structures
• Budget
• Types of costs
• Identifying a project manager
• Multiple projects
• A hierarchy of networks plan
• Tools and resources
• Work breakdown structure
• Time estimation
• Scheduling
• Milestones
• Critical path analysis
• Procedures for using CPA to plan a project
• Critical path netoworks
• Precedence diagram
• Network analysis
• Optimising project costs
• Incremental planning methods
• Streamlining by ‘what-ifs?'
• Teams
• Resources
• Monitoring project progress
• Critical success factors
• Control systems
• Measuring actual progress to date
• Methods of project progress control
• Methods of project cost control
• Communicating information – stakeholders/team members
• Finalising your project
• Closure activities checklist
• Project closure report
• Project team – final meeting
• Project team – reassignment
• Planning for the future
• Re-examining the closure report

AU$299