Labyrinth Coaching
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The Fundamentals of Project Management

Building your essential Project Management toolkit

Project management is being increasingly recognised as a vital skill set for many management positions, not just those with the title of “project manager”. This programme provides in-depth, practical, project management training. Participants will discuss projects from within their own organisation, and review tools and templates used every day to manage real projects.

Attending this programme will enable you to:

• Appreciate the characteristics of projects and the basic elements
  required for successful project management
• Understand the project lifecycle including basic tools or techniques
  used at each stage
• Develop project documentation, i.e. Business Case, Project Scope,
  Project Plan (Gantt chart), Control and Monitoring, Risk Analysis, Quality
  Assurance, Configuration Management etc.
• Understand risk and how to manage it
• Identify the project stakeholders and learn how to effectively engage
  stakeholders
• Understand the role and responsibilities of the project sponsor,
  programme manager and/or project manager
• Understand and learn to manage the most common causes of project
  failure

• Welcome, Introductions and Objectives
• Context and theory of Project and Programme Management
  • Objectives of a project
  • Role and Responsibilities of the Project Manager
  • Project Manager skills and competences
  • The reasons projects fail
• Project Life Cycle or Methodology
  • Understanding the Project Management Life Cycle
• The ‘how’ of Project Management – a case study
• Detailed phases of Project Management
  • Project initiation and set up
  • Project planning
  • Project implementation – executing the plan through organising
    and managing, as well as monitoring and controlling
  • Project closure
• Planning what to do next – how to apply the learning