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Planning
projects
to meet corporate objectives, quality requirements, time, resource and
expenditure constraints is vital to success in today’s competitive
environment. Managers, and those
aspiring to be managers, of projects to improve an organisation’s
functionality must be fully prepared for the challenges of initiating,
planning, resourcing and controlling those projects.
This intense and challenging 3-day workshop provides the essential preparation
for practical and professional project control. If you are new to this role or
feel you must improve on your current results, this course will provide you
with the skills necessary for success. This course
rates 18 PCP accreditation points with the Australian Computer Society.
Those
responsible for planning and controlling projects. Team leaders, analysts and
designers about to assume supervisory responsibility for projects.
Non-technical users who have, or will have, charge or co-responsibility for
projects.
To
enable those involved in controlling projects to learn and practice techniques
and skills vital to success.
WHAT
SKILLS WILL THE DELEGATE GAIN FROM THIS TRAINING?
This course will enable delegates to:
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Prepare project plans and staff allocation schedules.
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Prepare estimates of effort required within a project.
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Manage a project through all the stages of development.
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Set up procedures to collect the right project performance data from
technical staff.
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Set up procedures to provide senior management with the right project
performance data.
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Take a sufficiently business orientated view to establish meaningful
financial controls.
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Set tight project schedules and meet them with mixed project teams.
WHAT
METHODS ARE USED TO IMPART THESE SKILLS?
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Course presentation supported by full colour OHP material. |
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Class examples with student involvement. |
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Syndicate case study work. |
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Small group experiments, with analysis. |
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Presentation of syndicate findings, with critique. |
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1/3 page reproductions of all OHP transparencies used. |
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A large amount of additional handout documentation. |
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Comprehensive student manual. |
| The importance and content of a typical
Project Plan. |
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Nine Development strategies compared & contrasted (Royce
Waterfall, Sequential Version, Concurrent Version, Boehm Incremental,
Evolutionary, Boeing Evolutionary, Evolutionary Hybrid, Fast Track,
Prototyping). |
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| When
to choose which strategy. |
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Three types of breakdown tree.
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| Estimating
techniques (Sensitivity analysis, Kahn-Delphi analysis, Parametric
based, Function Points). |
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| When
to use which estimating method. |
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| Measuring
the quality of the Estimation process. |
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| How
quality control affects the project plan. |
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| Typical
quality metrics. |
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| How
the project plan affects quality. |
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| Fagan
inspections and their differences from walkthroughs.
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| Precedence Diagramming.
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| Managing the Critical Path.
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| Resource levelling
methods.
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| Project
Management Software Support Tools. |
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| Risk
management (Boehm method; Variance and the Central Limit theorem). |
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| The need for a control
tracking System. |
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| A
typical control system. |
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| Cost
Benefit Analysis. |
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| Discounted
cash flow (DCF), Net Present Value (NPV) and Rate of Return.
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| How
to quantify intangible costs/benefits (Bayesian Analysis).
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| Project success factors. |
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Critical success factors.
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Project organisation.
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Organisational methods (Functional, Project, Matrix).
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When to use which organisational method.
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Delegation guidelines. |
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| Team
cohesion and how to achieve it. |
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| The
value of team cohesion and its contributors. |
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| Factors
which contribute to productivity.
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| How
to manage the productivity options.
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| Course
Summary and Conclusion. |
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