Convertas Advanced Project Management and Control Convertas
Price: ZAR 58,499

    Course details

    Objective
    • Skill and confidence to use a practical project planning technique
    • Ability to determine if a project can truly be delivered on time and in budget
    • An understanding of how to discover the risks necessary to meet a constrained delivery date
    • Confidence to communicate project "trade-offs" clearly and set attainable goals with clients, managers, and team members
    • Knowledge of how to record actual project progress and then use the project baseline to spot and manage variance
    • Ability to "frame" your questions when analyzing the project plan to spot hidden variances
    Outline

    Project and Portfolio Management
    • Portfolio, program, and project management overview
    • Planning and control using appropriate life cycle
    • Managing matrix resources
    • The role of the project manager and skills required
    • A framework for planning and control
    Project Initiation and Planning
    • Planning and control starts with the project charter
    • Exercise: Rank project using constraints flexibility assessment
    • Roles and responsibility
    • Exercise: Develop a RASCI chart
    Organizing and Conducting
    • Define the project scope
    • Design the work breakdown structure
    • Identify project activities
    Estimating Activity Duration
    • Estimating techniques
    • Reserve management
    • Balance effort/duration and allocation
    Constructing and Analyzing the Project Network
    • Scheduling techniques
    • Milestones and Gantt charts
    • Network diagrams
    Constructing and Analyzing / Resource Leveling
    • Applying accelerating techniques
    • Resource scheduling and availability conflict management techniques
    • Exercise: Resolve an over allocation problem using the least risk option
    Monitor and Control Progress
    • Measuring and reporting progress (project governance)
    • Establishing a project dashboard
    • Exercise: Design a dashboard report
    • Earned value for tracking and forecasting time/cost
    • Closing Exercise: How techniques learned can be applied upon return to the workplace
    Updated on 16 May, 2024

    Eligibility / Requirements

    There are no eligibility requirements to attend this course.

    Job roles this course is suitable for:

    Project Manager , Project team , Project staff

    About Convertas

    CONVERTAS is a reliable advisory firm, helping organizations develop their activities to align with their objectives adopting the best practices.

    Our trainings and workshops cover all areas of business including Management,Soft Skills and Human Resourses Management, Marketing and Sales, Accounting and Finance, Procurement  and Logistics, targeting organizations, managers and employees. Whether in-house or public, trainings are organized with the highest qualified trainers.

    Our methodology relies more on the use of audio-visual impact which is more effective than the lecture style. Presentations, videos and simulations methods have proven to be very effective for people to remember.

    Moreover, doing and teaching are the best vehicles for learning and remembering. This includes involving the trainee in the teaching process by interacting, through completing worksheets and inciting to explain and present what is acquired.

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