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What is project management?
• What are the fundamental problems to be addressed?
• The role of the project manager
Project aims and objectives
• Defining aims and objectives: the Business case
• Preparing a Project Initiation Document
• Assessing the relative importance of time, cost and quality
• Project Risk Analysis
Estimating the workload
• Realistic forecasting
• Use of work standards, historical data and standard deviation techniques
Getting started
• Creating a preliminary product list
• Using a Work Breakdown Structure
• Producing a project plan using PERT techniques
• Allowing for contingency – lead and lag |
Analysis of a project plan
• Calculating the Critical Path
• Understanding float (slack) and contingency
• Calculating project costs
• Dealing with resource conflicts
Control of the project’s progress
• Setting a baseline
• The management of change
People management
• Stakeholders
• Potential problems
• Team management
• Decision making in leadership
• Delegation and motivation
Stress management
• Causes of stress and myths about stress
• The parasympathetic and sympathetic states
• Positive stress management techniques
• A stress reduction self-evaluation exercise
Questions and answers |
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