Course Timings
Registration will commence at 08:00 on the first day of the course. The programme will begin promptly at 08:30 and conclude at 14:30. There will be two refreshment breaks at approximately 10:30 and 12:30. Lunch will be served at the end of the day.

The Middle Manager’s Environment
• The middle manager’s operational responsibilities
• Positioning projects in the business environment
• Defining change and projects

Operational Goals And Projects
• Meeting operational goals
• Resource management
• Contributing to internal projects
• Managing outsourced projects

Project Management Concepts
• Strategic and tactical projects
• Projects as agents of change
• M.O.S.T.: Mission, Objectives, Strategy And Tactics
• Establishing the business needs and initial scope
• Project stakeholders
• The triple constraint
• The project manager’s roles and responsibilities
• Understand the key project organisation issues

Understanding Project Phases
• Projects and programmes
• Types of projects: matrix of categories

Organisational Structures
• Project organisational structures
• Project core team allocation

Project Scope And Requirements
• Projects and the portfolio environment
• Aligning the project to the organisational strategy
• Decision on project launch: the project charter
• Project governance after launch
• Stakeholder identification – establishing expectations & needs
• Agreement on scope of project, objectives and deliverables
• SMART objectives
• Product specification: converting the business case to project needs
• Developing the project requirements – the PRD

Project Planning Techniques
• The key planning and scheduling steps
• Work breakdown structure
• Estimation
• Activity network analysis
   1. Determining the critical path
   2. Optimisation of the activity network
• Building the Gantt chart
• Establishing the project calendar
• Meeting the schedule constraints: trade-off analysis
• Drafting the milestone schedule
• Resource management
• Building the cost estimate
• Establishing the project cost and funding
• The cumulate cost curve

Facilitating Processes
• Risk management
• Scope management and change request/order management
• Quality management
• Project communication plan
• Documentation management
• Project procurement management

Master And Detail Schedules – Baselines
• Consolidating the project plan
• Establishing the baseline and seeking final project plan approvals

Project Delivery, Tracking And Reporting
• Effective project implementation
• Project reporting: status, progress and forecasting
• Risk control
• Project close-out

The Middle Manager’s Role In Projects as Project Sponsor
• Initiating projects
• Member of steering groups as Resource Provider
• Supplying own resources to projects
• Maintaining resource skill levels
• Forecasting resource needs
• Communicating with peers and project managers
• Collaborating with external providers
   - Providing assistance and support
   - Aligning providers’ deliveries
   - Ensuring project completion

 

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