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. For our current course prices and online booking discount prices, please click here or contact us on 0845 223 5464.
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.
Further Information
Public courses take place in our training centre in Watford, North West of London.
Public course dates, location and local accommodation details are available here
For on-site or tailored courses, please contact our sales desk or email for details
Booking Confirmation
To confirm a public course booking, please return the completed booking form with your cheque payment (payable to 'Scoll Methods Ltd'), or Credit/Debit card details.
scoll methods Contact Details
Address: AGF House, 3-5 Rickmansworth Road, Watford, Hertfordshire, WD18 0GX
Tel: 0845 223 5464
Fax: 0845 223 5465
Website: www.scoll.co.uk
