121276_4: Effective Project Planning and Management
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6 |
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0 |
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Topics Covered
Chapter 1: On being a project manager
- What is a project?
- What is project management?
- Knowledge areas
- Principles of project management
- Project management processes
- Project management in the public sector
- Factors influencing project management in the public sector
- Elements of project management
- Evaluating the success of a project
- The project manager as manager
- The project manager as leader
- Situational approach
- Employee-manager problems
- Management pitfalls
Chapter 2: Defining your project
- Project Lifecycle
- Project scope management
- The project scope management processes
- To summarise scope management
- Stakeholders
- Identifying the stakeholders
- Determine the stakeholders’ needs
- Relationship building with stakeholders
- Feasibility
Chapter 3: Planning your project
- Organisational structure
- Organisational culture
- Project structure
- Selecting an organisational form
- Work breakdown structure
- Why use a work breakdown structure?
- Work breakdown structure guidelines
- Tools to create a work breakdown structureGantt chart
- Network diagram
- Responsibility assignment matrix
- Programme evaluation and review technique (PERT)
- Workload on resources
Chapter 4: Managing your project’s time and cost
- Project time management
- What an activity is
- Activity sequencing
- Activity duration estimating
- Schedule development
- Schedule control
- Project cost management
- Resource planning
- Cost estimating
- Cost control
- Procurement
- Procurement planning
- Solicitation planning
Chapter 5: Integrating your project and managing the risk
- Project integration management
- Project plan development
- Project plan execution
- Integrated change control
- Risk management
- Risk management planning
- Risk identification
- Qualitative risk analysis
- Quantitative risk analysis
- Risk response planning
- Risk monitoring and control
Chapter 6: Controlling your project
- Quality management
- Quality planning
- Quality management plan
- Quality assurance
- Quality control
Chapter 7: Managing your project’s people
- Human resource planning
- Staff acquisition
- Team development
- Team supervisors
- Leading a project team
- Motivating team members
- Satisfactory performance
- Project teams
- Criteria for working in a team
- Team roles
- Team development model
- Disruptive behaviour
- Team building
- Establishing a code of conduct
- Encouraging team involvement and participation
- Groupthink versus consensus decision making
- Methods to enhance team coherence and spirit
- Diversity within teams
- Behaviour of concern
- Modifying own behaviour
- Dealing with conflict
- Creating a positive working environment
Chapter 8: Communicating about your project
- Communications planning
- Information distribution
- Performance reporting
- Administrative closure
- ReportsInformation needs and reporting process
- Benefits of reports
- Types of reports
- Collecting and distributing performance information
- Reporting progress
- Tools and techniques
This course is part of the following qualifications that we offer:
- Core 121276 - Advanced Occupational Certificate: Learning and Development Professional Level 6, 280 Credits