Project Management
Course Overview
The rising importance of project management as an essential skill for business is increasingly recognized as a vital skill set demanded for many management positions, not just those with the title of ‘project manager’. Our project management training can help professionals acquire the expertise needed for these roles, equipping them with the necessary skills to thrive in today’s competitive business landscape.
Having a mix of project management skill sets and tools will enable you create an environment that leads to success.
This course provides in-depth, practical, project management training. You will be analyzing a real-world case study, discuss projects from your own organization, and review tools and templates we use every day to manage real projects. The course is designed for anyone with an active interest in project management.
This project management training course will help you to build the skills to keep your projects on task, on time and on budget by providing you with an overview of the project management process — from planning to execution — and equipping you with project management techniques and the knowledge to understand project complexity and achieve success in your business field.
Duration:
4 Days
Language:
English/Arabic
Training Objectives
- To understand and raise awareness of the value of project management (PM)
- To understand the project management process and enable participation more effectively
- Produce better project plans.
- Reduce project risks.
- Capture the complexity of your projects.
- Stay on top of the projects when they are underway.
- Present a more organized and professional management style.
- Have more success completing your projects on time, and to budget.
- Waste less time and money fighting fires.
- Utilize a project management concept known as “float” to better manage your projects.
- Avoid the major pitfalls of project management
Module Outlines
Module 1: Introduction to Project Management
- Standard definitions
- Why projects fail or succeed
- How to avoid causes of project failure
- The project environment
- The four stages of a project and the triple constraints
Module 2: Initiating the project
- The right (and wrong) ways to initiate a project
- Understanding the project
- Project justification and benefits
- The boundary between a project and operations
Module 3: Plan for a successful project
- Planning the project
- The project objective and scope
- The Work Breakdown Structure
- Defining dependencies and the network diagram
- Estimating Leveling resources
- Aligning the project schedule
- Establishing the project budget
- Defining Risks
- Identifying project Risks
- Assessing Risks probabilities and impact
- The project plan
Module 4: Building and leading project team
- Identifying Project team and resources
- Motivating and managing the project teams
Module 5: Executing the project
- Tracking and Monitoring the project status
- Handling overruns
- Managing scope changes
- Controlling issues and action items
- Maintaining control on Complex Projects
- Project Status reporting
Module 6: Closing and Reviewing the Project
- Gaining client concurrence
- Recognition and celebration
- Reviewing the project performance
- Capturing lessons learned
- considerations for calculating benefits realization
- Evaluation and Administrative closeout
Module 7: Support Project Management with Management skills
- Managing Conflict
- Stakeholder Communications
- Introduction to Negotiations
Customized Learning
Leap To Success is offering a variety of learning options to meet current realities and can be adapted to suit your business needs. These options include variants of online, blended and on-site course formats.
Face To Face Learning
Enabling you to have a face to face interactive and engaging learning experiences led by renowned industry experts and thought leaders with extensive practical experience who will employ a variety of interactive learning techniques, including short high-impact videos, case studies, assessments, role plays, in addition to on-going support.
Virtual Learning Labs
Interactive online learning held in real-time using Zoom and are led by international subject matter experts who incorporate case studies, breakout rooms, guided practice, simulations and discussions to maximise your learning experience.
General Methodology
Similar to any L2S training program, this program offers an interactive learning experience in which will allow the delegates to reflect on their learning through an informative, indulging, and fun classroom experience. The design of the training session focuses on the following attributes.
- Concrete Experience: The delegates will learn by doing
- Reflective Observation: Reflecting on the newly experienced skill-set
- Abstract Conceptualization: Developing deeper understanding to the learned concepts
- Active Experimentation: providing the delegates with realistic tools that can be tested in the real life
Specific Methodology
To effectively execute this program and to ensure that the end result is being achieved L2S specific training methodology in Project Management is as explained in the below stages:
Stage 1: Designing the Training Event
A diagnostic meeting is fundamental for conducting the Project Management workshop in order to capture the current happening with in the organization and to reflect those happening in the training event.
Stage 2: During the training
The course design is based on interactive facilitation, training energizers, training videos, extensive role-plays, group discussions, group brainstorming sessions.
This course is designed for the full involvement of every participant through the use of:
- Interactive team activities
- Skills practice sessions
- Group discussions
- Participant presentations
- Personal reflection
- Theory input
Activities Brief
Improve That Process:
This training activity is used to highlight the importance of understanding the process of the business and how when faced with a process that isn’t working, teams are empowered to change it – then test it – then measure the level of improvement.
Benefits of mastering improve that process game:
- Easier communications and control
- Easier measurement for improvement
- Increased understanding of the big picture
- Motivated and efficient staff.
- Sense of belonging to corporate team
- Better focus on customer needs
- More ideas, increased
- ‘value added’
- An increase in performance, productivity – and profit!
Learning Objectives
- Breaks down communication barriers
- Shows the benefit of cross-functional teams towards achieving customer satisfaction
- Illustrates the advantages of continuous improvement
- Highlights the need for creative change and empowerment
- Overcomes resistance to change
- Shows change as a function of open communication networks
Project Planning:
This training activity is used to establish fundamental principles for Project Planning through applying basic project planning principles to the construction of a log cabin within a tight deadline and within a tight budget!
Teams have a chart showing six weeks. In that time they need to plan to construct a log cabin. They have details of the 7 stages of the project from clearing the land to putting the roof on and landscaping. They have a file of information about the labour required for each phase and the cost and delivery times of materials. Their task is to plan the build within the deadline and within the budget, allowing for contingencies such as rainy days.
Their schedules are entered into a laptop that identifies the shortcomings of their plans and scores them out of 100. Can the team work together and come up with a feasible plan?
Post the Game:
- Conducting a post – Game review
- Brainstorming lesson learned
- close the project
Learning Objectives
- Demonstrates the importance of a critical path
- Emphasizes the need to schedule efficiently
- Highlights the need to plan for contingencies
- Covers labor planning and materials ordering
- Shows how cash flow is crucial to a project
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