Course Outline

What is Project Management

  • Getting back to basics
  • Principles of project management
  • Project stages and lifecycles
  • Where are we now and where are we going
  • Project components

Recognising projects – what is a project

Project Management Components

  • Internationally recognised project structures and components

Why projects go wrong

  • Early warning signals

Project goals and kick off

Planning and scheduling

  • Types of plans
  • Relationships between plans

Breakdown structures

  • WBS and others

Estimating

  • Tools, tips and techniques
  • Dilemmas in estimating

Gantt and Pert

  • Multiple uses for these tools

Overcoming Project Implementation Complaints

  • Bureaucracy
  • Limited human capacity

Financial Management

  • Cost classification
  • Cost analysis
  • Cost management
  • Scheduling and cost control in infrastructure projects

Commitment Based Project Management

  • Who are our stakeholders and how do we manage them

Goals and Personal Commitment

  • Driving goals down from corporate to personal levels

Operational Management and Risk Mitigation in Infrastructure

  • What is a risk and how do we classify it and deal with it

Quality Management

  • The quality process

Scope Management

  • Dealing with project level scope changes

Project Manager’s role

Human Resource Strategy

  • How to get the best out of our people

Leading Project Teams

  • Know your team-members and their personality types
  • Different management styles
  • The role of teamwork
  • Functional and dysfunctional teams – what to look out for and control

Communication Styles

  • Corporate communications, personal communications and team communications
  • What happens when communication goes wrong

Negotiation

  • Dealing with ‘big picture changes’ and conflicts
  • Renegotiation previous agreements
  • Conflict Triggers
  • Negotiating styles

Procurement and Contracts (for Non-Lawyers)

Project Management supplement

  • Methodologies
  • Running effective meetings
  • Tracking project activities
  • PM software
  • Facilitation
  • Reporting
  • Closing out your Project
  • Audits and reviews
  • Post implementation reviews

7 Detailed Problem Solving Case Studies - Tailored to the Infrastructure industry

1 Personality Profiling Test

CIPM Examination*

*Only those who successfully complete the exam will receive the CIPM designation

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