Solomon People Solutions

Project Management

This training course will introduce you to new skills that will help increase your performance and the support you offer your team, department and manager.

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Medium of Instruction: English
Duration of the program: 16 hours

Projects are essential to strengthen and stay ahead as an organisation  

Description

 

  • Identify the main obstacles to effective project management and their consequences
  • Understand the nature of the project management process
  • Understand a range of tools and techniques for project management
  • Use these techniques to build an effective project management process
  • Explain the benefits of having a systematic approach to managing projects in the organization
Who Should Attend this program?

Our target audience are executives who need to use and/or understand creative ways of solving problems and skills to take decisions to work in an efficient and effective manner in an organization. 

Program Outline

  • Defining a Project 
  • Project Management Defined 
  • Characteristics of a project 
  • Projects in an Organizational Context 
  • People in the project 
  • Project Team 
  • Team Structure 
  • Project Steering Committee 
  • Project sponsor 
  • Project leader/Manager 
  • Finance administrator 
  • Communication administrator 
  • Documentation administrator 
  • Scheduler 
  • Support systems administrator 
  • Quality administrator 
  • Phases of a project 
  • Phase 1: Initiation 
  • Objectives 
  • Impact analysis 
  • Phase 2: Planning 
  • Tasks 
  • The Network Diagram 
  • Critical Path 
  • Resources 
  • Milestones or Millstones? 
  • The Schedule as a Communication Tool 
  • Budgets 
  • Budget Sections 
  • Budget Variance 
  • Planning & Contingency 
  • Managing Expectations 
  • Checking the Plan 
  • Phase 3 – Execution 
  • Documentation Phase 
  • 4 – Monitoring and Control 
  • Project Metrics 
  • Monitoring & Control 
  • Change Control 
  • Documentation 
  • Phase 5 – Closure 
  • Learning 
  • Why Projects Fail? 

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    Here is what some of the previous participants of this program had to say:

    “We learnt a lot of new techniques which will help us to implement in our organisation”

    “It was brought across to us in a such a way that we have go back and implement”

    Beginning of the program:

    Each participant has to fill in a pre-training need form to ascertain their expectations that can be catered to by the facilitator.

    At the end  of the program

    Each participant has to submit a Post Training Action plan for implementation and to ascertain the Return on Investment.