PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Training fee including food, lodging and tourism: $3,000.
Persons who cannot join the training on the scheduled date can have it on a date convenient to them either online or in person but are required to give Sopodiva a six-week notice prior to their chosen date.
Available upon request
Introduction
Project management in today’s difficult to predict business environment is more than simply tracking deadlines and setting budget. A good project manager takes control of a project from the start to the end, ensuring that appropriate strategies, resources and communication skills are proactively employed to execute projects to the delight of clients and stay highly competitive within the market.
Workshop objectives
This Sopoprof course in project management and control has been carefully designed to get participants to do the following things among many benefits.
- Correctly defining client’s requirements
- Establish project goals and objectives that are directly connected to the needs and expectations of the various stakeholders.
- Establish project scope using proven techniques
- Develop and use project breakdown structure for planning, scheduling and control purposes
- Effectively assign roles and responsibilities to project team members.
- Establish project time and cost using proven techniques
- Establish an effective and efficient earned-value project control system for monitoring and controlling project progress
- Monitor project progress and performance using critical success factors and key performance indicators.
- Use practical and effective, step by step process to manage project risks
- Identify threats and opportunities to project, weigh their relative values to effectively develop, establish and implement response plans.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND SOPOPROF PROJECT MANAGEMENT CONTROL TRAINING?
This Sopoprof training is targeted at all programme and project managers, project team members, administrators who supervise projects and technical professionals.
SOPOPROF WORKSHOP OUTLINE
- The Nature of Projects and Project Management
- Project / Program and Portfolio Management
- From Strategic Planning to Project Management
- Management Criteria vs. Engineering Criteria
- The Project Life Cycle
- Managing the Triple Constraints
- Managing the Triple “C” in Project Management
- Managing Project Risks
- Managing Stakeholders
- Stakeholders in Project
- The Project Charter
- Stakeholder Identification
- The Imperative of Planning
- The Project Plan
- Developing the Mission, Vision, Goals and Objectives of the Project
- Basic Project Planning Steps
- Identifying Success Criteria
- Developing the Requirements
- Procurement Planning: “Make or Buy” Decision
- Defining and Sequencing Project Activities
- Estimating Activity Resources and Durations
- Staffing Management Plan
- Scheduling the Project Work
- Estimating Costs and Determining Budgets
- The Performance Measurement Baselines (PMB)
- Communication Planning
- Quality Planning
- Risk Management Overview
- Definitions of Certainty, Risk and Uncertainty
- Definition of Project Risks
- Definition of Risk Management
- The Primary Aspects of Risk Management
- Risk Management Planning Process
- Risk Identification
- Risk Assessment and Prioritization
- Qualitative Risk Analysis
- Quantitative Risk Analysis
- Risk Issue Filtering
- Risk Avoidance Plans
- Risk Contingency Plans
- Directing and Managing Project Execution
- Monitoring Work Performance Information
- Managing the Project Team
- Managing Stakeholder Expectation
- Project Deliverables Tracking
- Project Control Definition
- The Objectives of Project Control
- Project Control Approach
- The Earned Value Management
- Integrated Change Control
- Quality Assurance and Quality Control
- Communication and Documentation Control
- Procurement Administration
- Effective Project Closure
- Project Closure Objectives
- Project Closure Plan
- Administrative Closure
- Contract Closure
- Project Closure and Contract Closure Interaction
- Lesson Learned
- Post-Project Evaluation
- Success Celebration
WORKSHOP METHODOLOGY
Case studies, experiential exercises and practical examples are among the tools that will be employed to ensure that participants have maximum impact.
SOPOPROF TOUR
- Day one: participants will have the opportunity to visit and explore the University of Ghana.
- Day two: participants explore the Accra Mall and take the chance to watch a movie at the Silverbird Cinema before making their way back to the hotel.
- Day three: participants will tour the Kwame Nkrumah Mausoleum.
- Day four: industrial tour within Accra or Tema Metropolis
- Day five: participants will have to take enough rest on this day as they will embark on a much longer trip on day six.
- Day six: a trip to a tourist site outside Accra
