The British Academy for Training and Development offers a professional training course in Project Planning and Project Controls. It is critical that organizations can predict the value realization of their work. One of the most dominant approaches to value creation is using project management to achieve valuable results. However, many projects significantly exceed project schedules and budgets, resulting in organizations falling short of their financial and strategic goals. These mistakes can be exacerbated by alerting senior management to situations in which projects are running too slowly. This is primarily due to the inability of many project managers to successfully apply modern project planning, monitoring, management and progress reporting tools and techniques to their projects. This project management training course focuses on the value that can be gained from applying effective management using project management techniques. Our course is provided by a team of internationally experienced energy engineers.

Who should attend? 

• Related Project Manager.
• Project Managers.
• IT Project Managers.
• Project Coordinator.
• Project Analyst.
• Project Leaders.
• Senior Project Manager.
• Squad Leader.
• Product Manager.
• Program Manager
• Project sponsor.
• Project Team Member.
• Project Management Expert.

How attendees will benefit? 

After completion of the course, delegates will understand: 

• How to collect, manage and analyse data for large and mega projects.
• Identify trends in data.
• Effectively report on project progress.
• Develop a detailed project plan and budget.
• Describe and evaluate the basic principles and techniques of project planning and project management.
• Apply new project management methods to your work environment.
• Discuss and use different project planning techniques.
• Create management and technical reports.
• Support successful project planning with project networks and Gantt charts.
• Describe and use resource levelling and fast-tracking techniques.

Understanding Projects Control - Success and Failure:

• Project properties.
• Fundamentals of Project Management.
• Project Governance - manage project selection
• Project Governance - control project initiation based on charter.
• Understanding Control - Effective Kick-off with Project Team.

Enabling control with Core Planning Techniques:

• Deliverables Management - Collecting Requirements and Detailed specifications.
• Control at Delivery - Work Breakdown Structure.
• Control When It's Delivered - Create Scheduling Criteria.
• Controlling Stakeholder expectations - Optimize Schedule.
• Manage Delivery Cost - Estimate and Create Project Budgets.

Enable Control - Additional Planning Techniques:

• Controlling Uncertainty - Risk Management.
• Stakeholder Management - Communication Considerations.
• Managing Adversity with Effective Contingency Planning.
• Flexible Management - Problem management.
• Measurement Techniques for Managing Project Performance.
• Control Information - Status Reporting.

Monitor and Control Project Performance:

• Variance Analysis with Earned Value Management.
• Forecasting to Manage Project Budget and Schedule Concerns.
• Change Management.
• Advanced Status Reporting Techniques.

Control Project Completion and Deal with Unpredictability:

• Scope Verification – Requirements Traceability.
• Manage Project Records.
• Continuous Learning Method through Project Retrospective.
• Project Completion Management.
• Control Volatile Environments - Adaptive Project Management.
• Comparison of Control Mechanisms in Forward-Looking and Adaptive Project Management.