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  Project Management for Managers View Schedules
      Track :    Management Developement
      Course Id :    345
      Duration :    3 days
      LP :    2
      Pre-requisites :    General management background
      Introduction :    This workshop takes the mystery out of how to organise and plan projects, meet deadlines, and keep the budget under control. You?l benefit by saving time and money through improved plans, schedules, and communications. Through presentations, small group discussions, and hands-on activities, you will learn: This fast-paced, hands-on workshop is specially designed to meet the "instant" project manager's needs. It provides: ? Basic project management (PM) principles and terms, reinforced with a self-check quiz ? An easy-to-use set of tools to help new managers, step-by-step, plan and implement their projects ? Hands-on experience using these tools to plan a case study project or (optionally) an actual project as assigned by your organization ? The opportunity for participants to create tangible PM work products which are immediately usable to support their projects
   
      Objectives :    At the end of this course you will be able to: ? Define basic project management terms. ? Distinguish projects from ongoing operations and programs. ? Explain the benefits of organising project activities into phases. ? Describe the Generic Project Life Cycle. ? Develop, plan, schedule, and chart project information ? Work with calendars and implement scheduling methods such as the Critical Path Method to keep projects on track ? Create task dependencies and work with flexible and inflexible task constraints ? Work with multiple, consolidated projects and multiple critical paths ? Use Gantt charts to visualize project progress ? Create PERT charts to understand the relationships between tasks ? Compare actual progress against planned baseline projections ? Describe project scope. ? Define and sequence project activities. ? Estimate durations for activities and resources required. ? Estimate durations for activities and resources required. ? Develop a project schedule. ? Estimate costs. ? Build a budget and spending plan. ? Describe elements of a good project communications plan. ? Organise to acquire staff. ? Identify risks and plan to respond.
   
      Audience :    Business owners, managers, supervisors, project managers (or leaders) who want to improve their project management skills.
   
      Contents :    ? Basic project management terms. ? Differences between projects from ongoing operations and programs. ? Benefits of organising project activities into phases. ? The Generic Project Life Cycle. ? How to develop, plan, schedule, and chart project information ? How to work with calendars and implement scheduling methods such as the Critical Path Method to keep projects on track ? Creating task dependencies and work with flexible and inflexible task constraints ? Working with multiple, consolidated projects and multiple critical paths ? Gantt charts and project progress ? PERT charts ? Comparison of actual progress and planned baseline projections
   
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