Course Outline

 

Introduction to project management

  • Why Project Management - the purpose and benefits
  • Project Lifecycle & key terms
  • Project roles and Stakeholder awareness 

Understanding the Project Lifecycle

  1. Project initiation

  • The project selection criteria
  • Key documentation and the Project repository
  • Team mobilisation
  1. Project planning

  • Gathering requirements and understanding Scope 
  • Identifying deliverables and success criteria
  • Defining activities, sequency and setting milestones
  • Creating a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
  • Estimating cost and developing a budget
  • Finalising the plan and establishing change control
  1. Project execution

  • Monitoring progress and establishing effective project meetings 
  • Manage Communication plan and effective information distribution
  • Managing the project budget 
  • Manage project reporting and Key Performance Indicators KPI's
  • Managing project Risks and Issues
  • Managing project scope and the change control process
  • Managing project dependancies and x-project dependencies
  1. Closing the project

  • Performing project closure activities and achieving sign-off
  • Conducting effective lessons learned

Risk & Issue Management

  • Establishing and managing the project risk log
  • Identification and management of project issues

Stakeholder management

  • Identification of stakeholder needs
  • Effective working practices for diverse teams & project resources

 

Requirements

There are no specific requirements needed to attend this course.

This course is designed especially for personnel at British American Tobacco who need to gain an understanding of project management principles, tools, and techniques. Participants should have a good command of written and spoken English

  7 Hours
 

Testimonials (6)

Related Courses

Professional Agile Leadership Essentials | PAL-E (Scrum.org accredited training course)

  14 Hours

Applying Professional Scrum | APS (Scrum.org accredited training course)

  14 Hours

Scaled Professional Scrum | SPS (Scrum.org accredited training course)

  14 Hours

Related Categories