Project Management

Historically,ProjectManagementwaswidelyclassifiedasapartoftheoperationalmanagement. However,givenmore complex business environment nowadays, Project Management has become a necessary tool for successful strategy implementation. Many researches have shown that most failed strategies are not the result of poor strategy formulation, but implementation. Therefore, Project Management enhances the efficiency as well as the effectiveness of the strategic projects – in simple words – to meet the organization’s requirements on time and within budget.

Objectives

• Understand the linkages between Strategy and Projects

• Understanding Project Management process

• Can manage the risk

• Can monitor and control

• Understand and be able to balance the Science (process) and Art (people) aspects of the project

• Practice the end-to-end Project Management useful tools i.e. Gantt Chart, Network Diagram, CPM

Outline

Day 1

• What is project? Why is it important?

• The Three Pillars of project management

• Project management lifecycle

• Project definition

• Project planning – work breakdown structure, estimation, resource assignment, GANTT chart

Day 2

• Project planning – critical path analysis, resource planning, budgeting, risk

• Execution and control

• Project closure

• Organizing a project

• The Role of a project manager

• Recruiting and selecting project team members

• Team development

   

Learning tools

• Lecture
• Team practice