To encourage effective and strong leadership.
- Managing effective communications
- Building a project team
- Leading projects to success
- Dealing with conflict in a positive way
- Negotiating from conflict to collaboration
To ensure the business remains in control of the project including:
- The APM and British Standard lifecycle models
- Completing effective project hand over and learning lessons from the project
- The forms and purpose of project reviews across the lifecycle
- The nature of different organisation structures and the challenges of working in them
- Clearly defining roles and responsibilities for the project and business deliverables
- Understanding the benefits of methods such as Prince2TM
- The principles of the Governance of Project Management
To ensure the business case is robust and the supply chain is delivering value by including:
- The purpose, role and ownership of the business case
- Working with suppliers through the procurement cycle
To make sure the project is fully understood and estimated fully including:
- Understanding the customer’s requirements and how these can be met
- Estimating cost for completing the project using a number of methods
- Configuration management to control changes to the design
Including driving the project forward to a successful conclusion.
- Clearly defining a clear scope for the project
- Defining a robust baseline schedule
- Panning and managing key resources
- Budgeting and cost management
- Controlling change to the project
- Tracking costs and progress with earned value management
- Managing project information and reporting
- Managing and escalating project issues
Including being clear how success will be measured from the outset, the influence of stakeholders on requirements, how that can (or cannot) be managed. Also in this section:
- Preparing the project management plan
- Understanding and managing risk
- Planning, assuring and controlling quality
- Managing health and safety
During which we differentiate projects from non-projects, explore programme and portfolio management, the influence of the business and political context on project success, the critical role of the sponsor in project success and support that can be provided by a project office.