The Perfect Project - what you need to succeed

This course has been attended by over 15,000 people in the UK and Europe and supports project delivery with a practical, well tried and tested approach.

This course will take you through a simple, well tried and well tested project management approach to ensure successful delivery of your projects time and time again.

The many obstacles to success will be discussed and there will be opportunities to try out some new approaches using practical approaches.

Aim: To further develop Project Management Skills

• use a standardised framework for defining, planning and controlling projects
  
• recognise the role(s) you play and define other people’s contribution to project management process
  
• recognise and reduce risks within all types of project work
  
• use a range of tools with wide application

• Using a 5 stage project management framework
  
• Developing a Business Case for a project
  
• Defining your project through completing a PID including scoping
  
• Identifying project roles and assigning responsibilities
  
• Stakeholder analysis and management
  
• Producing measurable success criteria
  
• Identifying and managing risks
  
• Understanding what is driving the project; quality, cost, or time
  
• Communications planning
  
• Using a robust project planning process
  
  
  • Developing a work breakdown structure
  • Using predecessor or dependency relationships
  • Milestone reporting
  • Developing realistic estimates – time and cost
  • Producing and using effectively Gantt charts
    
• Agreeing a robust project control system
  
• Dealing with variations
  
• Project closure and review of learning – passing this learning onto others

Mr Ron Rosenhead

Mr Ron Rosenhead is a Senior Consultant specialising in Project Management which includes, identifying project management needs, delivering projects effectively, project sponsorship, and a very wide range of training and development approaches that will aid the prospective project manager.

Ron holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Personnel Management from Middlesex business School and a degree from Sheffield Hallam University (Public Administration with Industrial Psychology. He is a Member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, Professional Speaking Association and a Fellow of the Royal Society.

Ron has worked throughout the UK working with a wide range of project management professionals. He has personally trained over 10,000 people on various project management courses.

He started his career in sales and moved in to research before establishing himself as a Trainer and Consultant. He has worked extensively with professionals across all companies and this includes the design and delivery of changes management programmes as well as management development programmes for groups of prospective leaders.

He moved into project management quite by chance some 20 years ago and has not looked back since. His interest is in ensuring that companies have the right capacity (numbers) and right capability (skills) in place to deliver the real changes they inevitably will need to move their company agenda forward

His experience covers most industrial sectors and has consulted throughout the UK as well as parts of Europe.

Besides undertaking training, Ron also, writes and designs learning materials, writes a regular blog and is an author of eLearning training materials. In addition, he has written books on project management and spoken at conferences – all on project management topics.