Project Agency Ltd
Project Agency Ltd
There is a need for internal staff to be effective in the delivery of projects.
This course has been attended by over 14,000 people in the UK and Europe and supports project delivery with a practical, well tried and tested approach.
Professionals in all companies are engaged in a variety of projects; from change management projects to ensuring service provision matches pace with customer expectations to meeting legislative requirements.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
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
Events Management - what you need to suceed time after time
Why choose this course?
If you get an event wrong the implications for your business could be terrible. You could find yourselves on the receiving end of some bad publicity – see http://bit.ly/1oXs3KT.
Customers (internal and external) expect high quality events but how do you ensure that your event is a great success and that you have achieved everything required? How do you ensure that it is within budget and the right people attend? These and many more questions will be answered on this exciting and stimulating course by:
- Using tried and tested approaches to deliver effective events
- Providing tools and techniques that you can use in planning your event over and over again
- Focus on the key qualities needed to ensure you deliver effectively.
- Using a framework for delivering your event successfully
- Ensuring the event is worthwhile
- Defining what you are delivering – scoping the event out
- Identifying event roles and assigning responsibilities
- Stakeholder analysis and management
- Producing measurable success criteria for your event
- Identifying and managing risks
- Understanding the tensions in delivering events
- Using a robust planning approach in the delivery of your events:
- Developing a work breakdown structure
- Ensuring predecessor or dependency relationships are clearly identified
- Producing and using various charts including milestone reporting charts
- Developing realistic estimates – time and cost
- Using network charts
- Communications planning
- Agreeing a robust event review and control system
- Dealing with changes
- Event closure and review
- Learning from one event and using this learning on other events you are planning and communicating this to others in the business
Project Sponsorship - a must attend programme for Senior Managers
“We believe improvement in the skills of the executive sponsor is the single most important factor that will increase project success. Sixty-six percent of executive sponsors do a poor job and shirk their responsibilities. However, it is not their fault, because no one has educated them about their roles and responsibilities.”
(The Standish Group in their 2012 CHAOS Report.)
This research is well supported by Strategies for Project Sponsorship (by James, Rosenhead & Taylor published by Management Concepts, 2013) and points to the sponsor being a key person in project management.
Project sponsor training sets out to give project sponsors the relevant skills about their role and responsibilities. The programme can be half a day or a full day and can link into your own approach to project management within your company.
Research points to the sponsor having a critical role in project success, but the sponsor’s role has remained one that has had little or no attention. This one day course aims to rectify this.We will explain what the role is and why it is so important to project management. We will also look at some research produced in this important area.
We aim to ensure that when you leave this event you will fully recognise the important role the sponsor plays in project management.
- The BIG stats: Some of the latest statistics on project sponsorship & the implications
- What is project sponsorship? A check sheet of 17 key criteria a project sponsor needs to know and do
- Getting to “done” and your role. Explaining the 5 key principles of project management and your role in ensuring they are delivered
- What is your role in projects? An examination of what a project sponsor does and what your role is if you sit on a Project Board
- Project success or project failure and the impact of senior managers. Some statistics that show if you don’t actively support projects they may well ‘fail’ to deliver
- Sponsor skills. What active sponsorship entails and the skills you will need. The chance to identify any possible gaps
- The Project Manifesto. Identifying what you can have in your company and identifying the gaps the gaps
- Project management framework. Introducing you to a practical tool for managing projects. What is it and what it means for you and project managers?
- Change management and learning. Two interlinked areas for successful delivery of projects
- Project management templates. An introduction to some useful tools that support delivery
- Next steps. So what will you do next? Individual and group action planning
Contact
Mobile: 07973 735078