Training Course in Essential Project Management Skills
1Summary
Most project failures do not come from a single dramatic mistake – they come from gaps in everyday skills: a scope that was never clearly defined, a risk nobody tracked, a stakeholder nobody talked to. This Essential Project Management Skills course from the Arab British Fellowship Training Academy is built around exactly those gaps, giving current and future project managers the practical toolkit to deliver on spec, on time and on budget.
Whether the project is small or large, participants leave with usable planning tools, a clear grip on the project life cycle from initiation to closure, and the risk, resource and monitoring techniques needed to keep a project under control – plus a look at how modern technology is changing the way projects get managed day to day.
2Objectives and target group
Who Should Attend?
- Project managers and office managers.
- Executive managers.
- Professionals in private industry.
- Entrepreneurs.
Knowledge and Benefits:
After completing the course, delegates will be able to:
- Understand the project life cycle and conduct stakeholder analysis.
- Identify project resources and how to manage them.
- Use key planning tools: work breakdown structures, flowcharts, PERT/critical path analysis, Gantt charts and product-based planning.
- Identify and manage project risk, and build a business case with a cost-benefit analysis.
- Understand key roles within the project management team and how to monitor, control and evaluate a project.
3Course Content
- Module 1: Why Projects Fail – and the Core Skillset That Prevents It
- The concept of a project and project management, and the different types of projects.
- The sense of the project life cycle, from a practical, results-first perspective.
- Why a defined skillset for the project specialist matters more than experience alone.
- Module 2: The Project Manager’s Role – From Concept to Closure
- Administrative, human and executive skills of the project specialist.
- Stages of the project life cycle: initiation, planning, execution and closure.
- Core roles within the project management team.
- Module 3: Planning Tools That Keep Projects on Track
- Work breakdown structures and flowcharts.
- PERT and critical path analysis.
- Gantt charts and product-based planning.
- Module 4: Managing Scope, Time, Cost and Quality Together
- Defining project scope to cover all required project work.
- Managing project time and cost as connected disciplines.
- Managing project quality throughout delivery.
- Module 5: Leading People – Stakeholders, Teams and Communication
- Conducting stakeholder analysis and managing stakeholder relationships.
- Communication management within the project.
- Human resource management for the project team.
- Module 6: Identifying and Managing Project Risk
- Studying project risk and building a risk management plan.
- Crisis management during project execution.
- Practical techniques for keeping risk under control.
- Module 7: Business Case and Cost-Benefit Thinking
- Developing a business case for the project.
- Conducting a cost-benefit analysis.
- Linking the business case to funding and go/no-go decisions.
- Module 8: Resources, Procurement and Integration Management
- Managing project resources and procurement.
- Project integration management.
- Identifying support available to the project management function.
- Module 9: Monitoring, Control and Evaluation in Practice
- Project monitoring, control and evaluation techniques.
- Using modern technology in project management.
- Practical applications and real-project exercises.