Project Management for Managers Courses in London

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Course Overview

This course takes the mystery out of how to organise and plan projects, meet deadlines, and keep the budget under control. Delegates will benefit by saving time and money through improved plans, schedules, and communications. This fast-paced, hands-on course is specially designed to meet the “instant” project manager’s needs. It provides basic project management (PM) principles and terms, reinforced with a selfcheck quiz and an easy-to-use set of tools to help new managers plan and implement their projects. This course provides the opportunity for delegates to create tangible PM work products which are immediately usable to support their projects.

Objective:

By the end of the training program, participants 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 PEST charts to understand the relationships between tasks.
Compare actual progress against planned baseline projections.
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.

Course Outline

Day 1 - Introduction to Project Management

What are "projects"?
Why project management?
The project life cycle
Influences on a project
Key stakeholders
Project management process groups
Project manager responsibilities

Day 2 - Project Initiation

Understanding the role of senior management
Needs Assessment
Project selection - benefit/cost ratio
Present value and net present value
Building SMART objectives

Day 3 - Project Planning

Scope planning
The work breakdown structure
Estimating
Schedule Planning
Network Diagrams - CPM
Speeding up the Schedule
Project Management Planning Software
Cost Planning
Responsibility Matrix
Resource Loading and Levelling
Risk Planning
Procurement Planning
Communication and quality planning

Day 4 - Project Implementation

Baselines
Developing the project team
Organisations and team structures
Managing change
Managing Risk
Performance reporting
Reserves
Assessing and monitoring project performance
Earned value
Sunk costs

Day 5 - Project Closeout

Scope verification and customer acceptance
Administrative and contractual closure
Transferring lessons learned to future project

Schedule & Fees

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$4,900

Duration: 5 Days

date: 06 - 10 Jan 2025

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$5,300

Duration: 5 Days

date: 05 - 09 May 2025

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$4,900

Duration: 5 Days

date: 01 - 05 Sep 2025

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$5,300

Duration: 5 Days

date: 01 - 05 Dec 2025

Contract and Project Management

Project Management for Managers

Duration:5 Days

date:01 - 05 Sep 2025

London

$4,900

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