Essential Skills of Successful Project Management

About

Do you have what it takes to execute a project on time and to budget?

Project Management may not be your core function but it is quickly becoming a cardinal skill for most industries and disciplines. Many managers are increasingly involved in managing multiple projects, developing strategic plans and controlling a diverse range of people, events and resources within a set time frame and budget. These projects can be as diverse as launching a new product, implementing new infrastructures, new devices, engineering and construction of buildings, vehicles or even relocating an office.

To help you further enhance your project management competence or get you started on the right foot, Bright*Star’s Essential Skills of Successful Project Management has been designed to provide you with the critical skills to develop your strategic thinking and create the right culture and systems to ensure successful management and timely delivery of your projects. If project management is new to you or if you feel that you will benefit from some constructive and practical guiding principles, Essential Skills of Successful Project Management is the right course for you.

Like many of the other Bright*Star courses, Essential Skills of Successful Project Management does not only emphasise on the theories and principles of project management. This dynamic course takes on the approach that encourages the sharing of ideas and discussion of real-life experiences and issues with your contemporaries and course facilitator. You will emerge from the course well-informed and able to align your project with your organisation’s activities to consistently deliver successful results.

8 GREAT REASONS TO ATTEND
You will benefit from:
1. Understanding the principles of successful project management
2. Developing the scope of your project and developing a successful framework
3. Learning to set individual and team objectives throughout the project lifecycle
4. Managing your time, cost and grade trade-offs by establishing clear expectations from the outset
5. Dealing and managing with changes throughout the project
6. Leading your project team to achieve their best results by gaining commitment, trust and motivation
7. Recognising the needs of your stakeholders and how project change affects your relationship
8. Learning the skills to close and implement your project

Outline

Getting Started – What is a Project?
• Understanding the methodology, tools and techniques to manage projects
• Prioritising which projects to do and when
• Identifying the benefits for the organisation
• Aligning project goals and specifications with your business objectives

Planning Your Project
• What’s in scope and what’s not?
• Effective planning and realistic scheduling to determine what needs to be done
• Types of contingency to include in planning
• Establishing the project management roles and responsibilities    

Dealing With Change: Managing Resources
• Dealing with proposed changes to the project scope
• Running project meetings that make a difference
• Managing changes to processes and day-to-day functions
• Balancing

Making It Happen
• Setting frequent goals to improve your time management
• Setting and controlling project budgets
• Introducing effective quality initiatives
• Trapping and disseminating best practices

Project Risk Management
• Identifying sources, analysing and prioritising risk to projects
• Managing external clients and suppliers
• Planning your response to risks

Project Monitoring - Keeping Your Project on Track
• Managing stakeholder expectations: getting commitment
• Implementing project control and reporting structures
• Monitoring activities and performance levels
• Reporting to the Sponsor and Steering Committee

Time Management
• Exercising effective time management skills
• Setting individual and team objectives throughout the project lifecycle
• Overcoming procrastination
• Adopting appropriate delegation styles to suit your team members

Getting the Most from Your People: Managing Your Strategic Relationships
• Developing the project group into an effective team
• Inviting, accepting and acting on feedback
• Negotiating conflict for improved project performance
• Using different mediums to disseminate information to your stakeholders

Successfully Completing Your Project
• Closing the project: handing the project over, termination, appraisal, audit
• Effective techniques for capturing important lessons learnt
• Implementing the results and conducting a successful post project follow-up

Facilitator

Robert Barnes, Practice Leader , iE3 Group

Robert Barnes is a highly experienced course facilitator with extensive skills in project management and is an accredited Project Management Professional (PMP®). Robert’s success as an effective project manager ensures he brings a wealth of practical experience particularly in the IT industry. With years of experience in IT and business consulting, Robert has worked with a number of organisations undertaking business and IT strategy planning, determining and assessing IT investments and ensuring that maximum value is obtained from these investments over their lifetime.

Robert has consulted to various high profile companies, including Fujitsu (Australia) Ltd, Fletcher Building Ltd, Royal SunAlliance (NZ), Agriquality Ltd, Health Waikato Ltd. and Livestock Improvement Corporation among others. These activities are supported by a broad knowledge of modern computer technology and Robert’s thorough understanding and wide experience of Systems Development Life Cycles. A successful record of investigation and innovation has seen many of these projects provide improved cost/benefit well beyond their original expectations.

Robert is a member of The iE3 Group Ltd. - a consultancy founded on the understanding that well designed, competitively sourced and successfully implemented business systems add significant value to an organisation’s customers, staff and shareholders. Robert is currently the iE3 Group Practice Leader (software) specialising in all aspects of IT strategy, project management and systems.

In-house Training

Prices and Registration

* Early bird price available when you register and pay before the dates listed.