Project Management Essentials: A Practical Course for Managers
1Summary
Managers are often promoted into project responsibility without ever being trained to plan a scope, build a work breakdown structure, or defend a budget to a donor. This gap is exactly what this course closes.
The Arab British Fellowship Training Academy's course on project management essentials equips managers with everything needed to plan a project properly: scope definition, work breakdown structures, financing routes, and risk management.
It also covers the relationship side of the job — networking with donor institutions, running marketing campaigns for funded projects, using modern tools in daily management, and applying the concepts through hands-on models.
2Objectives and target group
Who Should Attend?
- Senior executives, project and program managers, and project supervisors.
- Project management office (PMO) teams and members.
- Project stakeholders and anyone with an interest in this field.
What You Will Gain:
- Hands-on experience in project and business management, including how to secure financing.
- Stronger performance in job interviews for project roles at international and local institutions.
- Networking skills for building relationships with donor institutions and running project marketing campaigns.
- The ability to identify, manage, and design a risk plan for every project you run.
3Course Content
Module 1: Project Lifecycle in Practice
- An introduction to modern management, its functions, and how projects originate and evolve as ideas.
- The four stages of a project: initiation, planning, execution, and closure.
- Types of profitable projects and analyzing the internal and external business environment.
Module 2: Scope, Goals, and the Logical Framework
- Formulating project goals and setting activities that achieve them.
- Turning the project idea into a Logframe Matrix.
- Analyzing project cost and identifying target groups for project activities.
Module 3: Managing Time and Schedule
- Defining project activities and distinguishing parallel from sequential tasks.
- Building and monitoring the project schedule.
- Controlling and adjusting the schedule as the project progresses.
Module 4: Budgeting, Financing, and Procurement
- Financial analysis of the project budget and expenditures.
- Procurement and supply management.
- Planning project financing methods and writing proposals for funding entities.
Module 5: Managing the Project Team
- Forming the project management team and defining tasks and responsibilities.
- Skills required of those responsible for project management, and the ethics of the profession.
- Monitoring and developing the performance of the project team.
Module 6: Risk and Quality Management
- Identifying project risks and designing a risk plan for every project.
- Monitoring risk management and evaluating its performance.
- Defining quality standards and monitoring quality throughout the project.
Module 7: Communications and Stakeholders
- Identifying project stakeholders and understanding their influence on the project.
- Distributing information effectively across the team and stakeholders.
- Planning communications throughout the project lifecycle.
Module 8: Reporting, Technology, and Networking
- Writing financial and administrative reports, and understanding their link to the technical report, using Word & Excel.
- Networking and building relationships with donor institutions, and running marketing campaigns for funded projects.
- Using modern technology in project management, with international monitoring and evaluation tools.
Module 9: Career Readiness and Applied Models
- Preparing for job interviews for project roles at international and domestic institutions.
- Reviewing applied, real-world models of project management.