Project Management - Online

Session 1: Defining the Change

• The dynamics of Change
• Identifying why change occurs
• The importance of Business Cases and their development
• Ownership of Benefits, Disbenefits and the purpose of a Business Case
• Stakeholders and Mapping Change

Session 2: Key Roles and Governance

• The main active roles in projects and their responsibilities
• Management of stakeholder expectation including MoSCoW
• Recognised soft skills and their development
• Behaviours and Principles
• The importance of agreed communication approaches from Highlight Reports to Daily Stand-ups
• The different Bias we hold and how have can affect our decision making

Session 3: Planning

• Providing the Objectives and Scope
• Approaches to scoping: Brainstorming, lists, lessons learned, Breakdown Structures
• Why different stakeholders, teams or individuals are central to understanding scope
• Visibility of information and Rich Communication
• Gantts, Timeboxes and Stages

• What is a Network and why we all use them!
• Shaping the scope into a logical flow

Session 4: Risk, Issue and Lessons Tracking

• Definition and difference between Risks and Issues
• The basic process of Identification, Analysis and Control
• Psychology and Stakeholders
• Continued Lessons Learned using Stages and Catch-ups
• Importance of capturing the Good, Bad and Missing or Glad, Sad, Bad.
• Action Planning