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1 day course

Project Management Fundamentals

The Project Management Life Cycle

  • What is a project?
  • The project management life cycle
  • The role of the project manager
  • Setting Up for Success

Setting Up for Success

  • The Meaning of Success
  • The Initiation Phase
  • Project Definition and Scope
  • Putting together a Statement of Work
  • The Project Charter

The Project Team

  • The Teamwork Challenge
  • Selecting Team Members
  • The Team Charter

Risk Management

  • Project Risk

Project Plans

  • The Work Breakdown Structure
  • Work Package Sequencing

The Project Schedule

  • The Scheduling Process
  • Time Estimates

The Project Budget

  • What is a Budget?
  • Creating a Preliminary Budget
  • Budget and Schedule Balancing

Project Tracking and Control

  • Moving the Project Forward
  • Monitoring for Project Progress
  • Earned Value Analysis
  • Getting Back on Track

Communications Overview

  • Project Performance Reports
  • Project Change Requests

Project Close-Out

  • Elements of Close-Out
  • Evaluation of people and projects

Overview

Students will learn the basics of project management.

Prerequisites

Benefits

Students will become familiar with the basic techniques for planning and controlling a project.

Target student

Students should be new to project management and/or about to take on the management of a project.

What's next

This is an introduction to the basic principles of project management. After this course students will be ready to learn how to use Microsoft Project as a project management tool, and will have the pre-requisite skills which are needed for the Systematix courses Project 2002 creating a project, Project 2000creating a project or Project 98 creating a project.

Private Training Courses

We offer private training courses which may be delivered at our training centre or at your premises on dates to suit you and your delegates. Course content can follow the standard course material as listed in the course outline, or can be tailored to your specific requirements at no extra cost.

For a single company private course we normally recommend that any class does not exceed 8 delegates in order to ensure that the learning objectives are met.

Total price per day (ex-Vat)
Number of delegates 1 2 3 4 5 6 Extra Person
At our Reading Training Centre £545 £595 £645 £695 £745 £795 £50
On your premises £495 £545 £595 £645 £695 £745 £50

 

For on-site courses only:

  • Notebook computer hire is £40 per computer per day. Savings can be made for block bookings of 2 or more days, please ask for details.
  • Trainer travel and accomodation is charged at cost and we can give you a fixed price quote for this prior to booking.

Course fees are payable in advance and are listed exclusive of VAT.