INTRODUCTION

Many organizations in our fast-paced-technology-intensive world, “just do it” and “do it right the first time”, which is a way life or culture. The functional managers believe they can’t afford to give enough time and effort for new management initiatives or projects in organization. Due to that the organizations don’t have enough resources to give their time to practice good project management.  However, it has become increasingly important that we manage and control our work and our businesses more efficiently with limited resources. So now we can see that many organizations are turning to project management as a tool to help them plan and control their businesses.  As a result, Project Management is recognized and adopted by many organizations as one of the fastest growing professions today. The below course provides the basics for project managers by introducing essential project management tools, concepts and methods. Developing and managing closely the project using the initial, planning, executing, monitoring, controlling and closure phases will help to build an efficient and effective project scope and objective achievement. This also helps organization to achieve the Triple Constraint (time, cost and scope) and deliver quality project outcomes.

OBJECTIVES

Upon completion of the course, participants will have:

• Greater confidence in defining, planning, and managing the entire projects
• The ability to create the WBS and develop a manageable project schedule (time)
• The ability to calculate and determine the cost, time and Scope to achieve quality
• A deeper understanding of core project management competencies and cycle
• The ability to build a project management plan with their project team
• Practice applying project management skills
• Increased effectiveness and efficiency in project management
• Understand scope creep and change control
• Use tools and techniques to manage a project during execution

COURSE CONTENT

MODULE 1 : OVERVIEW – WHY PROJECT MANAGEMENT?

• What are a project and a project Management?
• Project Management Lifecycle vs. Solution Development / Business Lifecycle
• The Project Manager Role
• Project Leadership and Team Building
• The five process groups
• The ten knowledge areas
• The triple constraint
• Why project fails?…Exercise – Identify the project failure factors.
• Session Overview – Exercise – Project Communication Problems

MODULE 2 : INITIATE – PROJECT DEFINITION

• Project Charter Development
• Exercise – Identify Project Charter
• Scope Statement Development
• Exercise – Identify Project Scope
• Exercise – Develop Project Milestone
• Identifying your stakeholders
• Exercise – Identify Project Stakeholders
• Creating SMART objectives
• Exercise – Identify Project SMART Objective

MODULE 3 : PLAN

• Understanding the 10 Knowledge area and it function
• Creating a Work Breakdown Structure
• Exercise – Identify Project WBS
• Schedule and Gantt Charts Development
• Exercise – Identify Project Gantt Charts
• Creating a risk management plan
• Resource Planning or leveling
• Creating the Procurement management plan
• Creating a communications Planning – Information Distribution Methods
• Exercise – Recommended/Not Recommended practices for communications tools
• Risk Planning
• Prepare templates to capture the actual spending
• Exercise – Develop Project template to capture actual spending

MODULE 4 : EXECUTION / MONITORING / CONTROL

• Monitoring
• Scope Control or achievement of Scope
• The Triple Constraint and Project Control
• Corrective actions
• Management Skills

MODULE 5 : PROJECT CLOSURE

• Project closure Communications
• Discussion – What happens at project closure?
• Contract
• Closure Administrative
• Closure Archive
• Lessons Learned
• The triple constraint – Success factor
• Exercise – Identify Project success factor
• The 5 other LPM principles
• Eliminate Waste Efforts
• Empower, Respect & Integrity
• Decide Later….Deliver Faster
• Amplify Learning
• See the Whole

METHODOLOGY

An adult learning approach using a combination of lectures and simulation, exercises, management games & group discussions

TARGET AUDIENCE

Project Personal, Supervisors, Officers, Executives, Engineers, Managers et cetera

TRAINER

Dr Mirza Abadullah

Dr Rahman Ibrahim

FEES (WITHOUT ACCOMODATION)

RM1,100.00 per pax

Early Bird RM1,000.00 per pax

(20 days before program)

2 pax RM 1,050.00 per pax

3 pax > RM1,000.00 per pax

(This fees is inclusive of 2 morning tea breaks, 2 lunch , 2 afternoon tea breaks, notes and certificate of attendance for the participants)