Centre for Competitiveness

Project Management

Practical Project Management

17 & 18 June 2008

"A project is complete when it starts working for you, rather than you working for it "

Venue: EERIC, Rushmere House,
Cadogan Park, Belfast

INTRODUCTION

This was very well structured and extremely participative and I would recommend it to companies who wish to develop project management skills among their managers.

David Peden
Area Programme Manager
Royal Mail

Time well spent and I would recommend this course to anyone involved in delivering projects.

Michael Goodman
South Belfast Highway to Health

Thank you CforC, Organisation is critical to achieve your objectives - on or ahead of time and on or below budget. The Practical Project Management course, (does exactly what it says on the can) by applying a simple approach to this organisation.

Robert Adams
Dairy Produce Packers Ltd

Many people think that project management applies only to construction. But projects come in many shapes and sizes - hiring staff, building a new website, launching a new product/service, installing machinery or working in improvement teams. In fact any piece of work to achieve a specific objective, in a limited amount of time, with limited resources that must run smoothly can be a project.

Are any of these familiar?

Only having a fuzzy idea of what is trying to be done
Promises being made that cannot be reasonably kept
Over-estimating what resources will be available and what they can do
Running into unforseen problems
Losing control
Having too little information too late, or too much irrelevant information

If you've come across some or all of these then you should consider Practical Project Management!

Project management improves the likelihood of success by providing clarity both of the project objectives and of the role of each member in the project team. It allows for better management of resources and control of changes during the life of the project. So project management methodology supports effective delivery of business objectives.

EVENT OBJECTIVES

This event will provide you with the opportunity to learn and understand the principles and practices of project management. By the end of the session you should have a clear understanding of the meaning of project management and be able to:

Specify the characteristics of projects
Specify the sequence of activities in the project life cycle
Identify the benefits of having project life cycle phases.
Identify the sequential steps involved in the following Project Management planning and organising techniques.
(i) Work breakdown structure
(ii) Dependency tables
(iii) Network diagrams
(iv) Critical path analysis
(v) Pert and Gantt charts
Identify the importance of monitors and controls in projects
Specify the process for monitoring and controlling projects.

Also included is 1 years access to the Centre for Competitiveness' easy to use online Project and Activity Management tool - Projects Juggler

Require more Information?

Contact Pauline Pollock on 028 9073 7950 and she will arrange for the CforC Executive to contact you to discuss matters in more detail.

In House Option Available

Many of our customers prefer to run this type of course in house for a group of their own people working on their own issues. Please contact CforC to speak to an Executive about your organisation’s particular needs.

FEE

Members of the Centre for Competitiveness £350 + VAT
Non Members £435 + VAT

Cancellation Policy

Any cancellations made up to 10 days before the event will result in a 50% refund.
Any cancellations made up to 5 days before the event will result in a 10% refund.
An absent attendance to a booked event means no refund