Project Management for Managers – Full Curriculum
The Benefits Of Having Good Project Management Skills – Section 1
1.0 Welcome And What to Expect
- An exercise in change management
- Why projects are different from day to day activities
- How this course is organised
2.0 Why Good Project Management Is Vital to Building High Performing Teams
- The statistics proving how valuable good project management skills are
- What successful projects achieve as a minimum
- 8 key personal benefits of building good project management skills
3.0 The Most Damaging Mistakes Made and How to Avoid Them
- 7 of the most damaging project management mistakes
- Detail explanation of why these mistakes are so costly and what to do to avoid them
Getting Project Signoff (Permission to Start) – Section 2
10.0 How to Create a Compelling Business Case to Get Your Project Started Quickly
- 5 factors for building a strong business case
- Why project alignment to wider goals is critical for project success
- What sections to include in your business case
11.0 What Goes into Defining Really Clear Project Goals
- 5 Questions to answer before setting project goals
- Understand the interdependence between project goals, resources and time
- How to ensure progress towards project goals are measurable
12.0 Essential People Management Tactics to Quickly Get Project Signoff
6 essential tactics for getting quick project signoff
How to set realistic expectations across the business
How to get commitment for the resources the project needs for success
Planning & Organising Your Project – Section 3
20.0 Why Project Planning and Risk & Problem Management Activities Must Be Done In Parallel
- How both sets of activity work together
- What planning expectations to have as a project manager
21.0 Planning The Activities & Steps To Demanding Timeframes
- How to create different planning levels for different timeframes
- Understanding dependencies and critical steps
- Developing alternative options and routes
- Planning timeframes and creating milestones
- How to build in contingency
22.0 Identifying & Securing The Resources Needed For Success
- What exactly do we mean by resources
- Practical actions to identify the resources needed by the project
- 4 Tactics to protect resources you booked or that are being used
Risk Analysis, Anticipating and Solving Problems – Section 4
30.0 How to Analyse Project Risk
- 12 common project risks to be aware of and analyse
- 7 valuable techniques to identify risk on your project
- How to assess each of the risks identified
- Methods to prioritise and manage the risks to the project
31.0 Techniques to Anticipate Problems on Projects Well in Advance
- 3 areas that create the most problems implementing a project (and how to avoid them)
- The actions to enable you to anticipate most internal problems well in advance
- Useful additional approaches to anticipate problems on any project
32.0 How to Solve Different Project Problems
- 5 stages to solving any problem (with detailed description of each stage)
- Using the skills of others to solve your problems
33.0 The Importance of Constantly Updating the project Plan
- How your plan saves you a ton of time
3 factors that increase the importance of updating the project plan
Implementing Your Project – Section 5
40.0 Setting up, Communicating & Organising Your Team
- Creating a meeting cadence and how to use different meeting types to communicate
- Balancing instructing and coaching approaches
- Leading from the front – the need to demonstrate what you expect
41.0 How to provide great support to increase project success
- 7 keys ways the project manager should support their team to increase the success of the project
- Different ways to develop the skills and experience in your team in different stages of the project
42.0 What follow-up is needed during implementation to maximise project success
- The actions needed to develop the following up habit
- How to follow-up effectively without annoying team members
43.0 Reviewing project work and signing off project steps & stages
- How to set clear quality standards and deliverables which the team meet
- 3 different approaches to review project work
- How to provide feedback that encourages improvement
- The importance of signing off steps and stages before progressing the project
- Using project management software to capture progress and issues
44.0 Undertaking User Acceptance Testing
- The 5 Steps of good User Acceptance Testing
- How to use UAT as part of the training process
- The different types of documentation needed for project completion
45.0 Providing Training Your End Users
- What you should include in a training programme for all users
- The different elements to include in a successful training programme
- Transferring from project team to business-as-usual
46.0 Completing and Closing the Project
Reviewing 4 core areas before getting project complete signoff
How to deal with unplanned or early closure of projects