Advanced Project Management

What do I get out of it?

• Practical tools to ensure that the project is completed as planned
• The skills to handle issues that arise during the project to reduce their impact on the project objectives
• New methods to identify and assess project risks, costs and requirements

• The key to a successful project: Planning, communication and commitment
• Using a standard methodology - an overview of the PRINCE2™ and PMI Bok project methodologies
• Managing the risk: A risk management culture
• Proactive risk management
• Effective use of Risk Logs
• Objective evaluation of project risks
• Impact of risk to the project and to the business
• Planning effective responses
• The project environment: The project team and the wider project environment
• Organisational structure
• Defining project team roles in matrix organisations
• Commitment register
• Financial control: 3 point estimating
• Earned Value Analysis Focusing on customer needs
• Defining, understanding and agreeing deliverables
• Getting customer commitment
• Stage management of the project: Managing the project Stage by Stage with customer approval
• Accurate record keeping
• Eliminating the gap between desired outcome and actual outcomes
• Looking forward
• Managing change
• Handling project issues
• Closing the project: Clean end to a project
• Follow-on activities
• Post-project audit and post-project appraisal
• Lessons learned Log
• Survival tips for project managers