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COURSE DESCRIPTION

This interactive training course will teach you all of the practical techniques needed to control projects of any size. This acclaimed course is the fifth revision of our original Association for Project Management accredited course.

Project Management - Controlling Projects

You will learn how to:

Select and apply a practical and effective series of project controls to each project.
Integrate appropriate quality assurance procedures into all phases of the project.
Implement effective reporting and change control regimes for each project initiative.
Schedule the involvement of project team members at each control point.
Apply proven techniques, including variance and EVA to measure project progress against the plans.

Study Area 1 - Introduction
Explains the importance of applying effective control mechanisms to ensure that project costs are controlled, and how to tailor the control framework to reflect the size and complexity of each project initiative.

Study Area 2 - Project Control Framework

Designing Management Controls - Introduces a flexible management control framework that can be tailored to suit the needs of projects of any size, and describes the implementation of each review and report needed to ensure that the project maintains its business integrity.
Designing Product Controls - Describes a series of product controls designed to ensure the accurate and timely delivery of the deliverables required by the project.

Study Area 3 - Data Collection & Analysis

Data Collection & Over-Reporting - Describes how to specify a cost effective data collection regime that reflects the size and scope of the project and explains why it is often difficult for a project team to admit that reported progress has been exaggerated, and how management can act to minimize this problem.
Variance & Earned Value Analysis - Describes techniques for calculating the difference between the costs detailed in the plans and the actual costs incurred by the project. This section also explains how EVA overcomes many of the intrinsic delays associated with variance analysis and illustrates the plotting of cumulative cost curves and the use of these curves to establish key project performance parameters.

Study Area 4 - Assuring Project Quality

Quality Planning – Describes the incorporation of the required quality activities into the PERT chart and the importance of using objective quality criteria.
Quality Control – Describes how the required qualities can be built into all of the products and how this can be exercised via the detailed planning of an appropriate quality control regime. Includes: change control procedures, quality reviews, project reviews and product testing.

Study Area 5 - Project Change Control

Controlling Change - Describes the use of standard change control forms to raise all project concerns, to analyse and classify them and provides a proven method for controlling change.
Configuration Management - Explains how configuration management can be applied to the control of an evolving set of products and project documentation and its use in verifying that the actual progress is in line with that being reported.

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