Project management essentials

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.

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.

Sharyn 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.