Capital Equipment Consulting Ltd
Interlocked Training Workshops
The Two Day Project Management Workshop begins by looking at the different sorts of projects and assessing the differing skills that project teams would need for each. It looks at how teams can improve their communication, problem solving and learning and how to cope with the conflict that arises. It suggests methods for both team leaders and members to help the team progress through the forming, storming and norming stages to become a high performing team. It then moves on to look at methods for estimating the likely cost and duration of projects and develops ways to obviate the risks of overrunning on either. It looks at how to carry out a financial appraisal taking full account of the risks identified to enable project approval to be made. It then looks at using Gant and Pert networks to develop a detailed project plan using resource leveling, fast-tracking and crashing a project to achieve the desired cost/time trade-off. Finally the workshop looks at using earned value reporting and critical ratio monitoring to control the project to its completion before reviewing the lessons learned.
The facilitator works through a case to get approval for launching a new business, analyses and mitigates the risks involved before developing detailed cost budgets, schedules and earned value monitoring ratios for the project. Finally the author reveals what actually happened when he launched this business and draws out the lessons learned.
The delegates are formed into a team to choose their own project to execute during the two day course to practice the above skills and to experience the highs and lows of developing into a high-performing team.
The projects are documented in either Microsoft Project or Excel
Subject Summaries Available from this Web Site - Project planning
- Financial assessment of projects
- Project Monitoring and Control
