What are the main stages in any project?
What constraints will you have to work within?
How can you maintain commitment and motivation throughout the project?
How can you learn to routinely analyze and anticipate?

Objectives

Learn the basics of project management.
Understand how project performance and content are managed.
Set up project schedule management.
Learn how cost management works.
Learn how risk management works.
Work effectively in a project team.
Steer the project to successful completion.

Program

1) The fundamentals of project management
- Concepts.
- The project life cycle.
- Roles and responsibilities in project management.
2) Project content and performance management
- The project charter.
- The task flow chart.
- Managing change requests.
- Project evaluation.
3) Time management
- Constructing a schedule.
- Optimizing planning.
4) Cost management
- What is an estimate?
- The estimating process.
- Budgeting for a project.
5) Risk management
- Identifying and assessing risks.
- Responding to risks.
- Monitoring and controlling risks.
6) Working in a project team
- The personal effectiveness of project team members.
- The collective effectiveness of project team members.
- Project meetings.
7) Steering the project
- Project overview.
- Managing progress.
- Project close.

Benefits for the participant

Understand how you fit into the project.
Interact effectively in a project team.
Identify your role and your added value.
Accommodate the unpredictability inherent in a project.
Incorporate the many contingencies that arise in the course of a project.
Act confidently to correct slippage in deadlines and costs.

Benefits for the company

Increase productivity and obtain the desired results.
Achieve objectives faster and cut production lead times.
Optimize and rationalize costs.
Create effective solutions by managing relationships between the functions involved.
Optimize organization by using cross-functional/project-mode management.
Ensure buy-in from project teams.

Concept

The four cardinal points of project management
1] Direction: define the direction and the end result
2] Time: set and maintain the pace
3] Team: pass on values and motivate
4] Process: set bearings to stay on course and on time