Course Overview

Successful project management goes beyond maintaining realistic expectation levels and completing projects within budget, scope, time, and resource constraints.

Today, the need to facilitate and participate in high-performing project teams requires a new application of team collaboration, clear and elevating project goal-setting, high performance and quality standards, and a culture of cross-functional and self-directing teams. These are essential for companies of the future to survive in a world where success is driven by projects.

Project management is not just a science but also an art. Managing projects also means managing people of various skills, cultures, attitudes, and aptitudes.

Participants attending this course will implement a real-life project using online simulations covering various aspects of managing a project. These simulations will challenge participants with real-life project issues and guide them through a variety of solutions.

Target Audience

This course is tailored for project managers, project leaders, and project team members.
It is also suitable for anyone involved in any kind of projects, whether technical or non-technical.

Learning Outcome

At the end of this course, participants will take back the following:

• Understanding of how strategies are implemented as projects
• Understand how projects are started
• Understand the importance of a business case
• Understand risk management in a project
• Identify factors for a successful project implementation
• Learn how to apply international standards and best practices in project management
• Understand the project management life cycle and knowledge areas
• Learn how to plan effectively
• Apply techniques to execute, monitor, and control a project
• Recognize the importance of effective teamwork for project success
• Experience the skills required to manage projects through simulation-based activities
• Emphasize continuous improvement through lessons learned

Course Outline

• Introduction to project framework
• What are projects?
• Projects as implementations of strategies
• Why projects fail
• Importance of project management standards and methodologies
• What is a business case?
• Why is a business case important?
• Project management life cycle
• Overview of the 10 project management knowledge areas based on PMBOK®

Project Initiation

• Purpose of a project charter
• Identifying project stakeholders

Project Planning

• Project scope and work breakdown structure
• Project schedule, milestones, and identifying the critical path
• Cost: planning the budget
• Quality plan
• Resource planning
• Human resource planning: assigning the right people to the right activities (including personality profiling)
• Communication plan
• Procurement methods
• Risk management plan

Project Execution and Control

• Directing and managing execution
• Monitoring and controlling techniques
• Managing change and conflicts

Project Closure

• Closing the project and recording lessons learned

Throughout the sessions, various tools and techniques will be used to simulate a real-life project.