Project and Programme Management Courses

Project Management for Practitioners - Essential Skills Program

Length 5 days
Version PMBOK 6

Course overview

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Why study this course

» This course is a combination of our two popular courses Fast Start in Project Management and *Making Projects Work, which are also available separately.***

This highly interactive five-day workshop is designed to give participants a solid foundation in the concepts, tools, and techniques of formal project management. While introductory in nature, this course is extremely comprehensive, covering the five key process groups and 38 core competencies associated with effective and efficient project management practice. Participants not only acquire technique-based proficiencies, but also explore and practice essential people skills and teamwork. The concepts and methods learned are immediately usable in the workplace, leading to a greater retention of newly acquired skills, measurable project improvements, and the achievement of desired project results.

Participants will be led through a combination of presentations and hands-on exercises. Our courses provide an experiential environment where participants can take risks and make adjustments based on their results before approaching large projects.

Consisting of a five-day comprehensive workshop, it emphasises the successful planning and initiation phases of the project management discipline. In addition to providing technique-based competencies, the Practitioner Program teaches students “softer” skills as well, such as negotiation techniques, getting management buy-in and effectively working with others.

Days 1 to 3 – Fast Start in Project Management
Participants learn state-of-the-art techniques for developing comprehensive project plans, getting management buy-in, and estimating and scheduling project tasks with accuracy and sophistication. In addition, they rehearse dynamic modelling to handle surprise variables.

Days 4 and 5 – Making Projects Work
Participants examine how to serve as a successful bridge between a project team, customers, and sponsors. Participants learn techniques for making difficult requests and influencing people outside their scope of power.

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What you’ll learn

Discover how to:

Build a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
Use a network diagram to display a Project Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT) chart
Use the Critical Path Method (CPM) in the network diagram to ensure the correct project duration
Estimate and schedule project tasks
Apply resources to a project plan
Explore different personality types and learn how they affect project management
Apply time-tested tools and techniques to actual projects
Create and communicate a shared sense of purpose between the project team and stakeholders about your project
Involve and engage key customers and use the views of others to create commitment and advance your project
Prepare to make difficult requests and influence people with whom you do not have official power; for example, obtaining additional resources for your project
Use a negotiation model that guarantees common understanding of the issue and creates accountability for and ownership of the final solution. Listen to and resolve stakeholders concerns.
Use group facilitation skills to create a common reference point that includes the description of the business problem, where the project is going, how to actualise it, and stakeholder involvement at any given point in the project
Identify key stakeholders for the project to understand their assumptions and expectations and to get them involved at the right time
Negotiate agreements that get your project started correctly and keep it moving along

Project Management Knowledge Areas:

Integration Management
Scope Management
Schedule Management
Cost Management
Quality Management
Resource Management
Communications Management
Risk Management
Procurement Management
Stakeholder Management

PMBOK at Lumify Work

The Project Management Institute (PMI) is one of the world’s largest not-for-profit membership associations for the project management profession. PMI’s professional resources and research empower more than 700,000 members, credential holders and volunteers in nearly every country in the world to enhance their careers, improve their organisation’s success and further mature the profession.

Lumify Work is an authorised training partner of the PMI offering PMBOK training and certification in Australia, New Zealand, and the Philippines.

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Who is the course for?

Anyone who wishes to understand project management skills and concepts, and who must influence projects, customers, and other team members.

Course subjects

An Overview of Project Management

The characteristics of a project
Project management processes
Project success and failure
Critical success factors and components
The effective project manager – skills and characteristics
Roles and responsibilities
The time, cost, and scope target

The People Side of Project Management

Understanding people
Learn the use style models
Flexing your style
Understanding differences
Communicating

Planning the Project

The components of the plan
Introduction to the case study
The project charter
The work plan
The control plans
The functions of a good project plan

Work Breakdown Structure (Work Plans)

Defining the work to be done
Creating the WBS – demonstration of technique
The Work Package
The Activity List
Methods of subdivision
Uses of the WBS

Estimating

Estimating accuracy
Estimating concepts and methods
Task-based estimation
Effort, productivity factors, influence factors

Scheduling

Schedule concepts and methods
Network diagrams
Precedence logic
Estimate duration
Create a network diagram – demonstration of technique PERT/CPM
Allocation of resources
Gantt charts/histograms

Risk Management

Evaluation of risk
Identification, assessment, quantification, and contingency planning
Risk consequences and contingencies
A technique for planning for risk
Cost/benefit/risk considerations

Project Control

Measurement, evaluation, and quality control
Prerequisites to effective control
Key indicators
Change management and control
Progress reporting

Project Completion

Management of project completion
Post implementation

How to Build Commitment and Accountability Through Effective Negotiation

Common deficiencies and problems with negotiating agreements
Key elements in building commitment
Negotiation principles
8-step negotiation model/process/practice simulations

Influence Through Selling Ideas

Initiating negotiations, promoting ideas, making difficult requests
Participant application to real project situations

Group Facilitation

Conceptualising and planning a successful facilitation
Modified 8-step negotiation model for groups
Facilitation tips to jump start and advance discussion/ground rules for facilitators

Process Start-Up Matrix

Components: scope facilitation, stakeholder map, and force field analysis
Building a sense of project purpose / application to team building
Responding to the project management process by using participants’ actual projects

Scope Facilitation Technique

Group facilitation process gets people excited about change
Builds commitment between team and stakeholders

Stakeholder Mapping and Analysis

Identify those who can help advance the project
Identify their assumptions and expectations about the project

Force Field Analysis

Group facilitation process quickly uncovers the constraints, assumptions and risks
Create strategy to respond to barriers associated with your project

The Art of Managing Resistance

Understand your role in resistance
Respond to resistance by defining causes and create appropriate actions

Prerequisites

None

Industry Association Recognition

This course is aligned to A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide) 6th Edition and is endorsed by the Project Management Institute (PMI) and the Australian Institute of Project Management (AIPM).

Project Management Institute (PMI®)

Contact hours: 35 hours
Professional Development Units (PDUs): 35 PDUs

Australian Institute of Project Management (AIPM®)

Continual Professional Development (CPD) points: 20 points

Terms & Conditions

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