About Course

Project Development for Development Professionals

About the Program

Project management helps to effectively deliver quality projects within the cost, time and scope constraints. Organizations are turning to project management to help them plan and control their businesses. As a result, Project Management is recognized as one of the fastest growing professions today.

This course provides the basics for project managers by introducing essential project management concepts and methods. Through discussion, workshops and real world examples, participants learn how to identify project components, organize them effectively and control the project from the earliest steps of developing the project charter through the final steps of a project-documenting lessons learned.

Project management is the application of knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to project activities to meet the project requirements. In this project management certification, you will be introduced to the world of project management and the different processes, methodologies, and project management skills that guide the industry.

Project management is being increasingly recognized as a vital skill-set for many management positions, not just those with the title of “project manager”. This course provides in-depth, practical, project management training. You will discuss projects from your own organization, and review tools and templates we use every day to manage real projects.

This course equips the participant with the skills to ensure their projects are completed on time and on budget and according to expectations. The participant will gain a strong working knowledge of project management and be able to immediately use that knowledge to effectively manage projects.

Target Audience

• This course is strongly recommended for persons performing project management tasks, those that want to increase their project management skills, apply a formalized and standards-based approach to project management.

Training Period

5 Days

What you will gain:

The 7-Day Results-Driven Leadership programme is designed from a leader’s perspective,  focusing on those skills essential for success in today’s VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex,  and ambiguous) business environment.

The participants will gain the following:-

• Initiate a project
• Develop project schedules
• Develop cost estimates, and budgets
• Plan project quality, staffing, and communications.
• Analyze project risks
• Plan and manage project procurement
• Monitor and control project work
• Monitor and control project schedule and costs
• Monitor and control project quality, staffing, and communications
• Monitor and control project risks and contracts
• Close a project successfully

Modules

COURSE OUTLINE

Module 1: Fundamentals of project management

• “What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.”
  • Components of Project Management
  • Functions of a Project Manager
  • The Art and Science of Project Management
  • The Triple Constraints in Project Management
  • The project Lifecycle
• Project Identification and Design
  • Stakeholder Analysis
  • Problem Analysis; Problem tree
  • Objectives Analysis; Objectives tree
  • Strategy Analysis
  • Design of Project Intervention Logic using Logical Framework
• Module 2: Project Set Up
  • Project Governance Structure
  • Project Charter
  • Project Launch
• Project Planning
  • Developing Project Management Plan
  • Project Plan vs Project Proposal
  • Principles of Project Planning
• Project Scope Management
  • What is Project Scope
  • Project and Product Scope
  • Use of work breakdown in scope definition

Module 3: Project Time Management

• Activity definition and sequencing
• Activity duration estimating
• Project Resource Management
  • Why is managing resources important
  • Managing Project Finances; Budgeting, Cost Estimation, Cost baseline, Monitoring Budgets and Expenditures

Module 4. Project Risk Management

• Examine a risk management plan
• Identify project risk and triggers

Planning Project Procurement

• Plan project procurements
• Prepare a Procurement Statement of Work

Project Implementation

•Identifying the Direct and Manage Project Execution Process

•Managing Issues and project team

Project Monitoring, Evaluation and Control

Monitoring and Evaluation activities in Project Lifecycle

Project Evaluation Approaches and Control

Module 5: Project Closure

•End of Project Evaluation

Administrative, Financial and Contractual Closure

Use of Microsoft Project in Project Management

•Basics of MS Project

•Creating tasks and Allocating durations to tasks

Delivery Method

This program is taught through a mix of practical activities, theory, group work and case studies. Training manuals and additional reference materials are provided to the participants.

CERTIFICATION

Upon successful completion of the training, participants will be awarded a certificate of course completion