PROJECT MANAGEMENT FUNDAMENTALS

Monday 13 April, 21 July, 2 November
In conjunction with IMNZ - 3 day PM Fundamentals in Auckland Book Here

This course is an introduction to Project Management concepts and is designed for those people who are new to project management or run projects as part of their other work.

On successful completion of this programme, it is expected you will have the tools to be able to;

• Conceive a project
• Bring projects in on time and avoid budget over-runs to achieve business outcomes
• Manage, motivate and organise people for project success
• Recognise and remove barriers to individual and team performance
• Develop
• Assess projects in terms of feasibility, suitability and risk
• Negotiate realistic project goals, constraints, charters and responsibilities
• Develop a work breakdown structure for a project
• Conduct a project task analysis and prepare project Gantt charts and network diagrams
• Estimate costs and task times including use of the PERT formula and other techniques
• Design and apply a decision matrix
• Assign resources to tasks and prepare project resource schedules
• Conduct a trade-off analysis to determine optimum balance of quality, cost, and schedule requirements
• Conduct risk management and prepare a project plan
• Prepare a project budget based on task costings
• Execute
• Delegate work packages
• Develop project status reports
• Monitor project process including earned value analysis
• Conduct project reviews and team meetings
• Manage variations
• Manage conflict and change associated with a project
• Finish and evaluate
• Close the project and evaluate its performance