Good financial numbers don’t manage themselves — a project team has to plan them, question them, and act on them. This Managing Project Teams and Investment Risk Training Course by the Arab British Fellowship Training Academy looks at project decision-making from both sides: how a project team is organised and evaluated, and how that team assesses risk and judges whether an investment is actually worth making.

Participants examine how project teams are built and assessed, how risk connects to institutional policy and gets categorised and investigated in the field, and how investment decisions get tested — from studying an opportunity and running feasibility studies to reading return on investment and moving a project through to implementation. The result is a practical view of how teams, risk and financial judgement come together on a real project.

Who Should Attend?

• Project managers, directors and general managers responsible for project decisions and team performance.
• Internal audit and financial-control staff working alongside project teams.
• Students and professionals aiming to connect team management with risk and investment analysis.

By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

• Plan and evaluate a project team’s tasks and overall performance.
• Connect risk assessment to institutional policy and categorise different types of project risk.
• Study an investment opportunity and build the feasibility studies that support it.
• Judge whether a project is financially worth pursuing, using return and valuation methods.
• Take a project from evaluation and precaution-setting through to implementation.

Module 1: Building and Evaluating the Project Team

• Organising human resources, development plans, and a program planning scheme for the team.
• Setting a project management plan and assigning team tasks.
• Evaluating project team performance.

Module 2: Risk, Policy and Field Assessment

• The relationship between risk and institutional policy and procedures.
• Categorising risk and carrying out field assessment work.
• Certifying risk assessments, taking precautions at the right time, and handling risks linked to corruption.

Module 3: Testing the Investment Case

• The concept of investment and studying investment opportunities.
• Building technical and marketing feasibility studies.
• Reading current value of cash flows, internal rate of return, and return period to judge a project’s worth.

Module 4: From Judgement to Implementation

• Handling responsibility, impairment, and special cases in project evaluation.
• Reaching a final evaluation.
• Managing the implementation stage and the transactions stage that follows.