The Tools & Techniques of Project Management
Boost Individual, Team and Organisational Business Performance and Results

Brussels
17-18 December 2009
and
5-6 February 2010

Introduction
The competitive global marketplace and business gives a decided advantage to those organisations and managers that manage projects efficiently and effectively. Projects involving personnel in a variety of roles are often critical to the success of the whole organisation.

Pressures to accelerate quality products and services to market, improve design features, apply new technology and reduce costs require managers to contribute to both what needs to be done, as well as how to get it done effectively.

Managers must acquire new skills and competencies beyond their functional roles to achieve high quality project results, on time and on budget. This program provides the opportunity for participants to get an intensive learning experience to develop the essential knowledge and skills of state-of-the-art project management.

Benefits

• Learn about project management tools and techniques to plan and structure any project
  
• How to use resources more efficiently by planning accurately
  
• Develop skills and approaches to control the implementation and delivery of project work within time, budget, risk framework and constraints
  
• Understand the importance of balancing tools and techniques with people management skills

Who Should Attend

This course is particularly designed to meet the needs of all managers who wish to use and apply a holistic and practical project management methodology to their projects.

The programme is not designed with a specific industry in mind. The seminar examples are drawn from broad spectrum of industries and the methodology has been successfully utilised in diverse industries – banking and financial services, chemical, consulting, construction, engineering, pharmaceuticals and other industries.

Specialists working abroad and individuals participating in funded projects will profit equally from these new skills

Certified Programmes


Participation on this programme will provide each participant with 16 Project Development Units (PDUs) that can be used as part of the requirements to attain the Project Management Professional (PMP®) title of the Project Management Institute (PMI)® 
(*)BMC is a PMI Registered Provider of Project Management Education

Programme Synopsis

The Project Management Method

• Characteristics of the Project Management Method
• The people and the system
• Organisational trends toward management by projects
• Authority of project managers
• Characteristics of effective project managers
• What is a project?

Exercise: Project Management Assessment Inventory: Participants discover their own strengths in essential project management practices and establish personal development goals.

How to create effective planning behaviours (Part I)

The five basic planning behaviours

• The business benefits of the project
• Developing goals and objectives – agreements with stakeholders
• Work Breakdown Structures (WBS) – controlling the project
• Project organisation and linear responsibility charts – creating accountability

Workshop I: Structuring and organising a project: Participants will organise and structure a project. They evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of their approaches based on the information learnt during the seminar.

How to create effective planning behaviours (Part II)

• How to schedule a project using GANTT, CPM and PERT – communications
• Project resource planning and control
• Budgeting and the project baseline – control
• The Project Execution Plan, management’s tool to create planning behaviours.

Workshop II: Developing the project schedule and performance baselines: Using the output of Workshop I, participants will develop project schedules, budget and establish the performance baseline.

Project Risk Management

• What is project risk?
• The project risk management Plan
• Identifying and analysing project risk
• Project risk mitigation plans
• Project Risk monitoring

Project Control and Reporting

• How to establish project controls and management reports
• Project control through ownership, team participation, coaching and performance measurement
• Organisational requirements for project control
• Activity based techniques for measuring performance, earned value method
• Design of control and management reports
• Team and client communications
• Keeping the customer informed

Workshop III: Participants will develop standard control and project reporting approaches that are value-added and easy to introduce and maintain

Summary and Personal Action Plans

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