Managing and delivering projects training

Portfolio management – green lighting projects, ensuring balance between competing resources

Project charter – defining the project and ensuring clarity about what it will deliver

Critical success factors – determining the critical success factors

Aims and objectives – creating clarity on the deliverables of the project

Scoping – determining what’s in scope and what’s out of scope within the project

Stakeholder analysis – working out who’s involved and who’s on the receiving end of the project

Project roles – the different people and functions that can be part of a big project

Team roles and types – the challenge of teams in projects, including Belbin’s team roles

Triple constraint – agreeing time, quantity and quality of a project.

Work breakdown – analysing and determining all steps and stages within the project

The DREC cycle (denial, resistance, exploration and commitment) – recognising the need for a human factors plan within projects as well a technical plan.

Cost estimation – how to breakdown and factor costs within a project

Time estimation – developing reasonable time estimates with identified margins

Gantt charts – how to develop timed plans for the project

RACI analysis (responsible, accountable, consulted, informed)– allocating duties and tasks within a project

Project closure – bringing a project to a conclusion, finishing and ending appropriately.