Course Details
Practical Project Management
23 Jun 2014
Professional Development
Project Management
Victoria University Professional and Executive Development
Level 2, Rutherford House, 23 Lambton Quay, Wellington City
Full Day
9:00am - 4.30pm
9:00am - 4.30pm
$845.00
Victoria University Staff 15% Discount Fee $718.25 excl GST
Victoria University Staff 15% Discount Fee $718.25 excl GST
This one-day hands-on workshop will introduce you to project management tools and concepts.
Who Should Attend:
This course is for anyone who requires a basic framework and a foundation of project management principles so that they can apply a structured approach to projects.
Course Objectives:
* Understand the practical application of basic project management principles. Understand key project success factors and typical project pitfalls.
* Undeerstand dynamic relationships and trade-off decisions between a project's scope, time, cost and quality.
* Understand roles and responsibilities of project manager, project sponsor and project team members.
* Define project outcomes and create a plan for achieving them.
* Secure management support for the project.
* Quickly establish realistic project timeframes and budgets.
* Select and build a project team.
* Identify project risks and mitigate them.
* Define the scope of a project.
* Monitor and report on project progress.
* Integrate project scope, resources, accountabilities, costs and deliverables.
Course Outline:
* Project management body of knowledge
* Work breakdown structure
* Activity dependencies
* Network analysis
* Critical path technique
* Float
* Gantt charts
* Project success and pain factors
* Maximum value
* Responsibility assignment matrix and case studies.
Course Format:
The workshops are highly interactive to enable you to benefit from the experience of the other participants and the presenter. There will be a number of hands-on exercises to develop your practical skills.
You will receive extensive resource materials to take away.
Who Should Attend:
This course is for anyone who requires a basic framework and a foundation of project management principles so that they can apply a structured approach to projects.
Course Objectives:
* Understand the practical application of basic project management principles. Understand key project success factors and typical project pitfalls.
* Undeerstand dynamic relationships and trade-off decisions between a project's scope, time, cost and quality.
* Understand roles and responsibilities of project manager, project sponsor and project team members.
* Define project outcomes and create a plan for achieving them.
* Secure management support for the project.
* Quickly establish realistic project timeframes and budgets.
* Select and build a project team.
* Identify project risks and mitigate them.
* Define the scope of a project.
* Monitor and report on project progress.
* Integrate project scope, resources, accountabilities, costs and deliverables.
Course Outline:
* Project management body of knowledge
* Work breakdown structure
* Activity dependencies
* Network analysis
* Critical path technique
* Float
* Gantt charts
* Project success and pain factors
* Maximum value
* Responsibility assignment matrix and case studies.
Course Format:
The workshops are highly interactive to enable you to benefit from the experience of the other participants and the presenter. There will be a number of hands-on exercises to develop your practical skills.
You will receive extensive resource materials to take away.
Ron Eckman BS, MSc, MNZCS, PMP Director
Ron's strong link with the Project Management Institute means that he works at the forefront of international project management developments. He was founding president of the Institute's award-winning New Zealand chapter, through which he continues to demonstrate his commitment to the development of project management in New Zealand business practice.
Formerly a Lecturer in Information Technology at California State University, San Luis Obispo, Ron became the first person in New Zealand to be formally certified as a Project Management Professional in 1993. He has served on the judging panel for the Project Management Institute�s International Project of the Year Awards. Ron is also a regular author and presenter of papers and workshops for the Institute�s national conferences.
Ron is a member of the New Zealand Association for Training and Development and has trained thousands of project managers and project participants in New Zealand, Australia and the USA
Victoria Professional and Executive Development is pleased to offer a suite of Project Management workshops, Practical Project Management, Project Management Level 1 and Project Management Level 2 facilitated by Ron Eckman.
Ron's strong link with the Project Management Institute means that he works at the forefront of international project management developments. He was founding president of the Institute's award-winning New Zealand chapter, through which he continues to demonstrate his commitment to the development of project management in New Zealand business practice.
Formerly a Lecturer in Information Technology at California State University, San Luis Obispo, Ron became the first person in New Zealand to be formally certified as a Project Management Professional in 1993. He has served on the judging panel for the Project Management Institute�s International Project of the Year Awards. Ron is also a regular author and presenter of papers and workshops for the Institute�s national conferences.
Ron is a member of the New Zealand Association for Training and Development and has trained thousands of project managers and project participants in New Zealand, Australia and the USA
Victoria Professional and Executive Development is pleased to offer a suite of Project Management workshops, Practical Project Management, Project Management Level 1 and Project Management Level 2 facilitated by Ron Eckman.