Delivery: Face-to-face | Duration: 2 days
This two-day course provides a comprehensive overview of project management.
It allows key players in projects to explore the core concepts, tools and techniques needed to understand how business initiatives are planned, managed and evaluated.
The concepts of this course are based on the framework and approach presented in Project Management for the Creation of Organisational Value by Ofer Zwikael and John Smyrk.
Learning outcomes
This course will teach you how to:
- Identify the key differences between projects and routine operational work
- Differentiate between outputs and outcomes in a project context
- Define and plan projects and assemble work plans
- Estimate challenges around business projects and how to assemble estimates in a progressive manner
- Assemble a governance model (and charters for specific roles and functions)
- Identify stakeholders and develop engagement strategies
- Develop risk and risk mitigation strategies
- Arrange suitable processes for monitoring projects, including preparation of status reports
- Evaluate and close out a project.
Who should attend?
This course is ideal for new project managers who will be managing projects that are complex in nature. It also provides a good refresher for experienced project managers and those who oversee portfolios of business projects.
Presenter - Sharyn White or Kath Wilson (LeftField Project Solutions)
Sharyn White is a principal consultant at LeftField Project Solutions who works with a variety of organisations locally and inter-state across the private and public sectors. With a background in the information technology space, Sharyn now works on a wide variety of business projects, with a particular interest in the people side of projects and those that make a difference to the Tasmanian community.
Kath Wilson is an associate with Left Field Project Solutions who has lived and breathed project management for over twenty years, spanning the public, private and not-for-profit sectors. The projects she has managed range from organisational improvements, strategic policy, IT strategy and implementation and energy construction. For Kath, projects are about change, change impacts, and people.
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