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Project Management Skills
DATE
2022-12-14;
LOCATION
To Be Determined;
Why Attend?
This course aims to provide participants with the skills required to plan their projects by creating work breakdown structures, estimating duration and resources, and developing a project schedule. Additionally, participants will learn how to utilize earned value performance indicators to monitor and control their project schedule and budget. The course will also assist participants in appraising their projects' feasibility by applying capital budgeting techniques. Finally, the course will cover how to plan project stakeholders’ engagement and manage their expectations effectively.
Course Objectives
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Target Audience
Project managers, members of project offices, project sponsors, functional managers, senior management, and individuals keen on improving their competence in project management.
Planning Projects
- Project management definitions
- Applications of project management
- Managing project constraints
- Project charter
- Project scope statement
- Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
Scheduling Projects
- Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT)
- Gantt chart
- Milestone chart
- Critical Path Method (CPM)
- Forward and backward scheduling
- Slack management
- Schedule compression techniques
- Resource planning and leveling
- Project baselining
Organizing and Controlling Projects
- Organizational structures
- Mastering Earned Value Management (EVM)
- Schedule and budget variances
- Schedule and cost performance indexes
- Project management reporting
- Auditing a project
- The role of software in project management
Selecting Projects Using Capital Budgeting Techniques
- Capital budgeting and cost of capital
- Accounting Rate of Return (ARR)
- Payback Period (PP)
- Net Present Value (NPV)
- Internal Rate of Return (IRR)
Managing Project Stakeholders
- Identifying project stakeholders
- Types of project stakeholders
- Managing stakeholder engagement techniques
- Skills and competencies for project managers
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