Project Management Fundamentals

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About the course

The Project Management Fundamentals course is a primer on the basics of Project Management. Participants learn how to use a range of project management techniques to manage the project life cycle and associated phases of a project. You will gain skills to plan, organise, control, document and close out their projects successfully. You will also examine strategies around budgets and risk minimisation.

Audience

This course is designed for participants who want to understand the basic concepts of Project Management. It is useful for Technical specialists/engineers moving into a project management team role, or working for a project manager but who have not had much, if any, experience to date.

Prerequisites

Some project management experience and scheduling software such as Microsoft® Project is helpful but not required.

Benefits & Outcomes

Key Business Benefits

Decreases costs through greater productivity and effective scope management
Helps foster accountability for project subordinates through better people management
Mitigates risk through better scope and risk management
Appeases internal and/or external customers through timeliness
Saves potential cost of rehiring, retraining and lost productivity by better people management

Key participants Benefits

Builds confidence by knowing best techniques and templates/steps to follow
Make it easier to manage the people equation by better people management skills
Increases time effectiveness by more adept handling of all aspects of the project
Lessens stress by better planning and having direct reports take on more accountability
Increases productivity and the potential of a favourable reputation by better scope and people management

Outcomes

After successfully completing this course, Participants will discover how to:

Identify key stakeholders and their roles
Collect actual work performed on projects
Update plan components
Manage project risk and maintain a schedule and budget with consistent predictive power
Manage cost, scope, time, risk, quality, and project change according to a set of processes
Analyse projects and the project management process continually

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