Course Description

Delivery of high quality project and programme outcomes is key to organizations’ survival and prosperity, especially in today’s fiercely competitive and fast changing business environment. Managers are constantly seeking to produce good quality results while reducing costs and minimizing delays. Careful balance of quantitative and qualitative considerations is very important in projects and programmes implementation. This training course aims at equipping participants with the essential management skills, tools and methodologies required for effective delivery of high quality project outcomes.

Learning outcomes

By the end of this course the participants will be able to:

•   Define what the concept of quality in projects and programmes

•   Understand the importance of deliberate quality management processes in projects and integrate quality in project initiation, planning, execution, control and completion

•   Identify and document quality requirements and standards for the project and product

•   Apply cost benefit analysis, cause and effect diagrams, control charts and other tools in project planning and control

•   Apply basic statistical quality control concepts

•   Implement effective quality assurance and control

•   Be ready and conduct quality audits

•   Effectively manage stakeholders to ensure their satisfaction with the project results

•   Improve the quality climate and culture across the project life cycle

Who should enroll?

This course is strongly recommended to a wide range of project management professionals and those individuals who are involved in or manage internal and external projects both in the private and public sector.

Why train with us

Vital Extra Learning guarantees our clients:

•     State-of-the-art facilities and training infrastructure

•     Extended tradition of hand-holding during post engagement

•     Service delivery through highly seasoned industry experts.

•     Value for money

TOPICS TO BE COVERED:

Module 1: Introduction

Fundamentals of project management

•     Components of Project Management

•     Functions of a Project Manager

•     The Art and Science of Project Management

•     The Triple Constraints in Project Management

•   The project Lifecycle

•   Business project management processes

Project Identification and Design

•     Stakeholder Analysis

•     Problem Analysis; Problem tree

•     Objectives Analysis; Objectives tree

•     Strategy Analysis

•     Design of Project Intervention Logic using Logical Framework

Project Set Up

•     Project Governance Structure

•     Project Charter

•     Project Launch

Module 2: Project planning and management (scope, time, resources, risk)

Project Planning

•     Developing Project Management Plan

•     Project Plan vs Project Proposal

•     Principles of Project Planning

Project Scope Management

•     What is Project Scope?

•     Project and Product scope

•     Use of Work Breakdown Structure in Scope definition

•     Scope Creep

Project Time Management

•     Activity Definition and Sequencing

•     Activity Duration Estimating

•     Activity Resource Estimation

•     Schedule Development

•     Optimizing schedule

•     Schedule Control

Project Resources Management

•     Why is managing resources important?

•     Managing Project Finances; Budgeting, Cost Estimation, Cost baseline, Monitoring Budgets and Expenditures

•     Project Earned Value Analysis

•     Managing the Supply Chain

•     Human Resources Management

Project Risk Management

•     Examine a Risk Management Plan

•     Identify Project Risks and Triggers

•     Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis

•     Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis

•     Develop a Risk Response Plan

Module 3: Project Procurement and Implementation

Planning Project Procurement

•     Plan Project Procurements

•     Prepare a Procurement Statement of Work

•     Prepare a Procurement Document

Project Implementation

•     Identifying the Direct and Manage Project Execution Process

•     Managing Issues

•     Managing project team

•     Manage Stakeholder Relationships and Expectations

•     Managing Internal Controls

Module 4: Project M&E, Controls and Closure

Project Monitoring, Evaluation and Control

•     Monitoring and Evaluation activities in Project Lifecycle

•     Project M&E Plan

•     Project Evaluation Approaches

•     Project Control

Project Closure

•     End of Project Evaluation

•     Administrative, Financial and Contractual Closure

•     End of Project Learning

•     Stakeholders closure meeting

Module 5: Software

Use of Microsoft Project in Project Management

•     Basics of MS Project

•     Creating tasks

•     Allocating durations to tasks

•     Advanced task scheduling

•     Creating a resource pool and allocating resources to tasks

•     Tracking Project Progress

•     Customizing views

•     Tracking costs

•     Reports views

Other software for business project management 

•     ProofHub

•     Asana

•     Wrike

•     Basecamp

•     LiquidPlanner