Project Management Essentials: A Practical Approach

Course Objectives

As a result, new project managers must be systematically thought on best practices and established management techniques. In this course, participants will understand the role of project manager as a broker of information.

• Learn how a project can succeed or fail
• Identify the core stages of a project management approach and follow it systematically
• Schedule, breakdown tasks, brainstorm, identify risk and manage deliverables
• Use effective meetings to monitor the progress of the project and communicate with participants
• Analyse risk systematically and formulate responses
• Analyse your management technique based on a case study using the principles discussed in this course
• Communicate more effectively with team members and increase the team’s inter-communications
• Ask specific types of questions to obtain more information
• Use effective meetings to monitor the progress of the project and communicate with participants

Target Audience

• Project Managers
• Project Team Members
• Mid-Level Managers
• Senior Executives
• Anyone who may undertake a project

Methodology

Lecture, Individual & Group Activity, Feedback Sessions, Discussions, Demonstration, Business Games

Course Modules

• Module 1: WHAT IS A PROJECT?
• Module 2: PROJECT LIFE CYCLE
• Module 3: PLANNING
• Module 4: MEETINGS