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Project management principles
Differences between project management and operational management
Why projects are becoming more important to companies
Factors that contribute to project success and failure
What a project actually is!
Projects and Stages
Subdividing large developments into manageable projects
Software development lifecycle: major business user and IT activities in each phase
Dividing projects into Management Stages for control purposes
Planning business user resources for IT projects
Project roles and responsibilities
Project roles from Board of Directors to team members
Importance of clearly assigning roles and responsibilities
Role of Project Sponsor, Project Manager, Team Leader, Quality Leader, etc.
How to get commitment and how to manage people you don't own as a line manager
Project definition
Business and IT activities which must be undertaken before a project starts
Defining objectives, scope, completion criteria, etc.
Costs and benefits: business case
Project Definition Workshops
Contents of Project Definition Document/Project Initiation Document
Estimating
Importance of accurate and consistent estimates
Techniques for providing top down estimates
Rules of Thumb for software development projects
Techniques for producing bottom up estimates
Estimating for contingency, change, user effort, etc. for IT projects
Planning
Different types of plans, their purpose and relationship
How to plan large and small projects
Including contingency, change, etc. in the plan
Examples of plans, large and small
Risk management
How to assess project risk
Mitigating and reducing risk
Monitoring and managing risk
Collecting lessons learned about risk management
Stage Agreement
How to get User and IT resources properly committed
Why and how to produce a Stage Agreement
Relationship to Project Definition Document
Change and Issue management
The need for control of change to requirements
Managing issues that arise during the project
How to manage Change Requests during a project
Who owns and controls the change budget
Tracking, Controlling, Reporting
Managing a project when it is underway
Tracking progress, actuals vs plan at the team level (including Quality)
Team leader's control and reporting activities
Weekly status meetings
Project manager's control and reporting activities
Status and outlook reporting to the project sponsor
Project Support
The role of Project Support
Advice and guidance to team leaders and project managers
Independent project "Health Check"
How to ensure projects comply with Project Management rules
Contents of effective Project Management rules and guidelines
Quality management
Ensuring the project delivers what the business needs
Walk throughs, Inspections, Simulations, Testing, Causal Analysis
Software quality measurements
Active management of Quality during software development
Building good quality in rather than testing bad quality out
Project completion
Team lessons learned meeting, analysing project experience
Documenting and reporting Project Completion
Feeding forward to improve future projects
Post implementation reviews
Improvement planning
Participants consider how to apply the techniques to their own projects
Methodology
This course does not teach a specific methodology such as Prince2. It teaches how to
manage projects and teaches the principles and techniques upon which project
management methodologies are based. The course will be suitable for you whatever method
your company uses.
Please email enquire at hraconsulting-ltd.co.uk (please replace "at" with "@")
if you have any queries about the contents of this course.
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