Project Management
£449.50
Course overview
This Project management course deals with the technical aspects of project management, including planning and estimating time, budgeting and costing, and risk analysis. We also explore the 'people' skills involved: communicating with project teams, stakeholders and project champions.
Who should attend
This Project management training is aimed at those with only a little experience of project management who want to learn the basic skills and get some tips and techniques for introducing the disciplines of project management. It would also be very useful for those who have some experience of small projects and want to further develop their skills.
Equivalences
A London PT College certificate will be issued to all participants on completion of this course. In addition, you will receive a certificate confirming the number of CPD hours achieved for this course.
Entry requirement
Fluency in English
A good undergraduate degree or significant work experience in a relevant role
Minimum two years’ professional experience, typically our participants have more than ten years’ work experience.
Duration of course
The qualification is designed to be delivered over eight weeks for full-time study, but it is also flexible in its delivery in order to accommodate part-time and distance learning.
The qualification is delivered face-to-face, through lectures, tutorials, seminars, distance and online.
Learning outcome
Define a project
Analyse the key issues for your project
Draw up effective terms of reference for a project
Clarify your project’s aims, objectives and success factors
Plan and sequence your project
Understanding and working with critical time points
Risk management
Draw up a realistic project budget
Constructing a project budget outlining the main elements, and how each might be estimated and considering all project costs, support costs and overheads.
Work effectively with your project team
Constructing a project team
Understanding and overcoming the barriers to building a high-performance team
Dealing with conflict in the team
Work with stakeholders and champions
Understanding who your stakeholders are and what influence and interest they have in the project
Communicating with stakeholders
Monitor and evaluate your project
Designing a simple monitoring system
Using critical success and failure factors
Course structure
Introduction to Project Management
Scope Planning
Time Planning
Cost Planning
Risk Planning
Earned Value Management
Human Resources Management
Agile Project Management
Benefits Management