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COURSE DESCRIPTION

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

Project Management - Organizing Projects

You will learn how to:

Tailor the management and supervisory framework to suit the needs of each project.
Apply the principles of effective matrix management to any number of project initiatives.
Recognize and address the conflicting demands placed on members of the project team.
Schedule the involvement of team members throughout the project life-cycle.
Build and motivate an effective and efficient project team for each project initiative.

Study Area 1 - Introduction

Each project initiative represents a temporary management structure, which should be able to respond rapidly to unforeseen circumstances. This section shows how the traditional organizational structure can be enhanced by managing work as projects.

Study Area 2 - The Project Environment

Project & Matrix Management - Details the types of management structure that are appropriate to projects of different sizes and describes why this should be tempered by real world requirements.
Sources of Conflict - Describes the problems and opportunities that appear when a traditional management structure is complemented by a temporary project management structure. It includes advice on how to identify sources of conflict and take action to pre-empt it or resolve it, should it arise.

Study Area 3 - Management Responsibilities

Commissioning & Ownership - Explains the duties of the bodies responsible for commissioning, funding and monitoring the project.
Project Management Roles - Explains the role of the project manager, sub-project manager and task leaders, including: planning at the project and sub-project level, exercising control, ensuring product delivery and effective people management.

Study Area 4 - Managing the Life-Cycle

Project Life-Cycles - Describes project life-cycles, which divide the project into a series of phases, the five phase life-cycle model and how this can be simplified for the purpose of applying formal organisational processes.
Managing the Life-Cycle - Introduces and explains the key components of the project initiation phase and how the project is monitored against the plans to ensure that it remains viable. It also describes the project closure processes, which ensure that the outcome is checked against the original objectives.

Study Area 5 - Motivating the Team

Motivating Team Members - Describes the common sources of anxiety among new team members and the importance of tackling these as early as possible by addressing staff concerns at the start of each project initiative.
Creating a Project Office - Describes why project oriented organisations may maintain a full-time dedicated project resource, the practical duties of the project office and its role in collecting, analysing and disseminating project information.

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