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Course Overview
Designed for anyone working in a project team environment or engineers who see an increasing management component in their work, this course will equip you with general project management skills to help you to deal with problems that can occur. It’s suitable for people in any field of work but especially one that has a high technological content. You’ll also gain practical experience of using project management techniques, including the use of a software tool, with a real project of your own. The course topics include project initiation, risk, estimating and contracts, planning, human factors, project execution, and standard methods.

Course Objectives
At the end of the course delegates will be able to:
• To determine the characteristics of a project
• Identify stages in the project life-cycle.
• Provides delegates with the opportunity to examine the key behaviours, skills, tools and techniques for effective project management.

Course Outline
Introduction to Project Management
• What is a project?
• Why can projects fail?
• The role & skills of the project manager
• The roles & responsibilities of the project team Defining the Project
• Identifying the problem(s)
• Setting objectives
• Defining the scope & constraints
• Project Planning & Initiation Writing a project initiation document
• Planning tools & techniques
• Risk assessment & contingency
• Project scheduling Project Communication & People Management
• Planning communications
• Why communication fails
• Key communication skills Getting people on-side
• Motivating and keeping morale high
• Implementation & Execution
• Tracking the project Dealing with problems
• Handling requests for change
• Closure of the Project
• Measuring results
• Capturing data