Project Management - Essentials and Professional 
These courses provides delegates with the essential elements of project management. They consider the nature of a project and the manner in which it should be organised, initiated, planned and controlled. They also examines how project risk should be treated and how successful project closure can be attained, including the assessment of benefits achieved.
- What is a project, what is a programme and how do the two inter-relate?
- Project organisation
- Roles and responsibilities, including the Project Sponsor, the Project Manager, Project Support and Project Assurance
- The Business Case
- Establishing the rationale for the project
- Cost/benefit analysis
- Project Initiation
- Creation of the project initiation document to act as a contract between the Project Sponsor and the Project Manager
- Identifying and defining:
- Aims and objectives
- Budgets and resources
- Constraints
- Timescales
- External dependencies
- Tolerances
- Communication arrangements, reporting and escalation
- Principles of Planning
- Interim, management and final products
- Use of Critical Path Analysis
- Gantt Charts
- Basics of project control
- Milestones
- Checkpoints
- Analysing actual versus planned
- Determining the effectiveness of progress
- Reporting by exception
- Risk Management
- Risk analysis
- Risk responses
- Risk Registers
- Project Closure
- Achievement of objectives and delivery of products/outcomes
- Benefits realisation
- Post implementation review
- Lessons learned
Delegate Profile
Anyone requiring a broad understanding of the essential components, processes, tools and techniques of project management. This may include those moving into a project related role, as well as line/operational managers whose staff have responsibility for project management.
Course Length
The Essentials course is run over two days. The Professional course is run over three days and includes case study work that allows delegates to apply what they have learned to a real-life scenario.
Contact Details
If you would like further details, or are interested in booking one of these courses, please contact us on 0845 020 4228 or by e-mail at info@amberwing.co.uk.