The course content addresses the following topics:
- The project life cycle and terminology used in projects
- Aligning corporate strategy to project selection
- Project definition including business case, scope and resource planning
- Moving from work breakdown structure to 'hands-on' project scheduling
- Project estimating techniques
- Management of risks and issues
- Project change control - avoiding 'scope creep'
- People aspects - high performance teams and organisation structures
- Quality expectations - how to recognise and meet them
- Project governance through the sponsor and steering committee
- Stakeholder communication including reporting and facilitation of meetings
- Progress and performance evaluation using 'Earned Value' techniques
- International project management
- Procurement, outsourcing, and the management of contracts
- Common causes of project failure - the role of audit / review to avoid them
- Ethics, professional conduct, safety, health and environment
- Bringing the project to an orderly close
- Special topics like cultural diversity and managing in an unstructured environment