Essentials of Project Management for the ICE Cheltenham City Club

Below are the slides presented to the Cheltenham ICE city club on Tuesday 26th April 2011. The topics covered include:

• Clearly describe the importance of project managers’ role to the profitability and satisfaction of client needs
• Explain why and how to manage consulting project throughout the life cycle.
• Selling, Starting, Delivering and Closing. Specifically this will include effective implementation of the following project control processes ¤Scope management and planning.
• Project management planning and scheduling.
• Risk management.
• Cost management including planning and forecasting using earned value.
• Control of changes.
• Issue management and communications.
• Manage a contract  including demonstrate strategies for managing the client relationship and expectations within the constraints of a contract.