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Advanced Project Management Course

  • Duration:2 Days
  • Cost:£960 + VAT
  • Ref:APM

Our advanced project management course will help you develop sophisticated techniques to manage complex and demanding projects.

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Cost £960.00 Duration 2 days Code APM

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Who is it for

Those with some project management experience who want to develop their skills to manage large or complex projects

What is it about

This clearly structured course provides an insight into the tools and methodologies essential for analysing projects of all types, in order to plan and manage them to a high degree of accuracy. This course is ideal for those who require solid project management skills but are not in a position to undertake a formal qualification such as PRINCE2®.

Course Overview

  • The key to a successful project:
    • Planning, communication and commitment
    • Using a ‘standard’ methodology – an overview of the PRINCE2™ and PMI Bok project methodologies
  • Managing the risk:
    • A risk management culture
    • Proactive risk management
    • Effective use of Risk Logs
    • Objective evaluation of project risks
    • Impact of risk to the project and to the business
    • Planning effective responses
  • The project environment:
    • The project team and the wider project environment
    • Organisational structure
    • Defining project team roles in matrix organisations
    • Commitment register
  • Financial control:
    • 3 point estimating
    • Earned Value Analysis
  • Focusing on customer needs:
    • Defining, understanding and agreeing ‘deliverables’
    • Getting ‘customer’ commitment 
  • Stage management of the project:
    • Managing the project Stage by Stage with customer approval
    • Accurate record keeping
    • Eliminating the gap between desired outcome and actual outcomes
    • Looking forward
    • Managing change
    • Handling project issues
  • Closing the project:
    • Clean end to a project
    • Follow-on activities
    • Post-project audit and post-project appraisal
    • Lessons learned Log
    • Survival tips for project managers

What will I get out of it?

  • Practical tools to ensure that the project is completed as planned 
  • The skills to handle issues that arise during the project to reduce their impact on the project objectives
  • New methods to identify and assess project risks, costs and requirements
  

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This course is accredited for CPD

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