Course Overview
Project Performance Evaluation is a systematic method for collecting, analysing, and using information to answer questions about projects and policies, particularly about their effectiveness and efficiency. Stakeholders want to know if the projects they fund and implement are actually having the intended effect. Evaluators help answer these questions, and the best way is for evaluation to be jointly undertaken by evaluators and stakeholders.

This course is designed to give participants definitive standards for assessing and improving an organisation’s project implementation capability.

This training module provides a good start for all those who may or may not currently be active in project evaluation but will be in the future. It demonstrates the critical knowledge and skills required in Project Performance Evaluation to achieve project success. Furthermore, it introduces proper processes and good practices.

Target Audience
This course is tailored for all those who are and/or will be directly or indirectly involved in Project Evaluation. A sound understanding of project management standards and processes will be an asset.

Learning Outcome
After this course, participants will be able to:

• Understand Project Portfolio Management processes
• Identify the need for an evaluation
• Understand practical concepts for evaluation, including alignment to business strategy
• Gauge success factors for project implementation
• Identify the types of evaluation
• Review Project Management processes
• Identify and analyze Project Implementation steps
• Recognize problem areas
• Develop a roadmap to enhance identified problem areas
• Establish a steering group to oversee continuous improvement

Course Outline

• Demand Management – origin of projects
• Why projects fail
• Assessment of current strengths and weaknesses in Project Portfolio Management
• Monitoring vs. Evaluation
• Best practices in Project Management (PMBOK®)
• Best practices in Portfolio Management (importance of financial viability of selected projects)
• Importance of Project Evaluation and does it work
• What is Evaluation – qualitative vs. quantitative
• Key steps in Project Evaluation methodology
• Importance of engagement of stakeholders
• Evaluation Process – goal, evaluation design, gathering credible evidence, and justifying conclusion
• Report findings
• How to interpret the data:
  • Direct utilisation
  • Conceptual utilisation
  • Variables affecting utilisation
• Guidelines for maximising utilisation
• Means of verification
• In-house case study analysis