Practical Project Planning
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Practical Project Planning

Course Outline
Practical Project Planning is a 2-day, non-residential, generic course, which teaches techniques for effective planning and control of projects.

This course is designed for those who already have team motivation skills but need planning and control techniques. This will include project managers who have no staff directly reporting to them and those where product development is or has been out sourced to 3rd party suppliers. Case Study work will be done using the tool MS Project.

Course Syllabus
- Project Management Introduction
- Project characteristics
- The need for a plan
- Management requirements
- Project Definition
- Project Deliverables
- Identifying deliverables
- Defining deliverables
- 3 benefits of product planning
- The Product Description
- Product Breakdown Structures
- Product Flow Diagrams
- Estimating
- The problem with estimates
- The 3 strand rope
- Estimating formulae
- Activity and Resource Planning
- The Gantt Chart
- Resource levelling
- The 3 constraints
- Activity dependency
- The PERT Network
- Critical Path Analysis
- Risk Management
- What is project risk?
- Evaluating risk
- The Risk Grid
- Options for managing risk
- Risk management step by step
- Quality Controls
- Establishing quality levels
- Determining suitable measures
- Ways of controlling quality
- Quality audit
- Maintaining the quality profile
- Control
- The control / benefit balance
- Project controls that work
- The 4 way project controls of planning
- MS Project Case Study
- Project phases
- Project Milestones
- Scheduling Tasks
- Allocating Resources
- Setting a Baseline
- capturing actuals
- Controlling a project

Course Fees
The course price includes all the course materials, refreshments and lunches.

Course Materials
Course delegates are provided with copies of all the course visuals and class exercises.

Joining instructions for public courses are sent to you two weeks before the start of the course or when you confirm your booking.

Pre-Requisites
There are no pre-requisites for delegates to attend this course.

 
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Duration2 days
 
£588
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Bookings Helpline: 01933 233884 (Monday to Thursday - 8:00am to 5:30pm and Friday 8:00am to 5:00pm).