Project Management

Learn established and well trusted project management processes to ensure successful project outcomes.

• Plan, Manage and (on completion) Review Projects
• Understand technical and human resources, marketing, and other aspects of a project
• Apply these skills to property development, mining, agricultural, engineering, events or other projects
• Enhance your employability across a wide range of industries

Who Uses Project Management?
Project management skills are applied to all industries, and in all sorts of situations.

This course is just as relevant to a construction project as it is to managing a new product launch.  It is best suited to someone who has some prior experience or training in management, but is also useful as an adjunct to management studies.

There are 9 lessons in this course:

1. Introduction
   • Scope and Value of Project Management
   • Understanding what project management is
   • The Need for Project Management
   • The Project Lifecycle
   • Project Identification and Initiating Process
   • Project Planning
   • Project Implementation,Execution and Control
   • Project Completion and Evaluation
2. Project Identification
   • Scope and Nature
   • Formulating Project Objectives
   • Developing a Project Outline
   • Assessing a Projects Feasibility
   • Feasibility Checklist
   • The Identification Test
   • Three Types of Risk
3. Planning Projects
   • Planning Heirachy
   • Planning Parameters
   • Planning Quality
   • Developing a Strategy Framework
   • Project Breakdown Structure
   • Planning Time
   • The Gantt Chart
   • PERT Charts
   • Planning Expense
   • Delegating Responsibilities
4. Project Implementation
   • Introduction
   • Implementation
   • Controlling Process
   • Applying Standards
   • Events Control Chart
   • Budget Control Chart
   • Monitoring Performance
   • Evaluating Performance
   • Regulating Process
5. Completion and Evaluation of a Project
   • Introduction
   • Why is a Closing Phase Necessary
   • Declaring Iminent Completion
   • Reassignment of Resources
   • Considering Project Sustainability
   • Project Assessment; Final Report, Performance Reviews
   • Appraising the Project
   • Why Projects Succeed or Fail
6. Technical Project Management Skills
   • Preparing a Project Proposal
   • Proposal Layout
   • Drawing Up a Budget
   • Constructing a Post Project Appraisal
   • Software for Projects; How Project Management Software Works, choosing software
   • What Project Management Software Cannot Do
7. Leadership Skills
   • Scope and Nature of Leadership
   • How to Be A Project Leader
   • Visibility & CommunicationsLeadership Characteristics
   • Leadership Skills
   • Improving Leadership Skills
   • Giving Directives and Introducing Change
   • Orders
8. Improving Critical Personnel Skills
   • Inevitability of Problems
   • Common Problems
   • Schedule variations
   • Changing priorities
   • Administration overload
   • Deadline Changes
   • Cash blow out
   • Inappropriate skills
   • Role Confusion
   • Exhausted Team
   • Politics
   • Reduced Motivation
   • Communication Breakdown
9. Major Assignment
   • Development of full documentation for projects.

Each lesson culminates in an assignment which is submitted to the school, marked by the school's tutors and returned to you with any relevant suggestions, comments, and if necessary, extra reading.

For more information on this course, please request your free course information pack.