Managing Projects

Master the essentials of project management; get everything you need to start managing your own successful projects.

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Course Overview

Managing Projects is an essential foundation course and a great starting point for your development. Gain the skills, knowledge and tools you need to start running each stage of the project life-cycle. You will learn to work within organisational and cost constraints and set goals tied directly to stakeholder needs. Get the most from your team and learn to utilise project management tools to get work done on time and within budget. Learn a comprehensive and thorough approach to project management - from the early stages of defining project requirements - to developing work breakdown structures, project change control and closeout.

Course Topics

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1. Introduction to Project Management
   1. What are "projects"?
   2. Why project management?
   3. The project life cycle
   4. Influences on a project
   5. Key stakeholders
   6. Project management process groups
   7. Project manager responsibilities
2. Project Initiation
   1. Understanding the role of senior management
   2. Needs Assessment
   3. Project selection - benefit/cost ratio
   4. Present value and net present value
   5. Building SMART objectives
      • Specific
      • Measurable
      • Agreed to
      • Realistic
      • Time-constrained
   6. Developing Requirements
   7. Project charters
   8. Project Requirements Document
3. Project Planning
   1. Scope planning
   2. The work breakdown structure
   3. Estimating
   4. Schedule Planning
   5. Network Diagrams - CPM
   6. Speeding up the Schedule
   7. Project Management Planning Software
   8. Cost Planning
   9. Responsibility Matrix
   10. Resource Loading and Levelling
   11. Risk Planning
   12. Procurement Planning
   13. Communication and quality planning
4. Project Implementation
   1. Baselines
   2. Developing the project team
   3. Organisations and team structures
   4. Managing change
   5. Managing Risk
   6. Performance reporting
   7. Reserves
   8. Assessing and monitoring project performance
   9. Earned value
   10. Sunk costs
5. Project Closeout
   1. Scope verification and customer acceptance
   2. Administrative and contractual closure
   3. Transferring lessons learned to future project

“En omfattande kurs framförd på ett lättbegripligt sätt och 200% inspirerande.”

Tobias Söderkvist,
Projektingenjör,
PRC Engineering AB

“Bra och nyttig. Fått ett bättre grepp om vilka förväntningar som ställs på mig och hur jag ska uppfylla dessa.”

Dan Larsson,
Projektledare,
Teracom