Project Leadership & Management

·Major Topics Covered in this Diploma Program include:

Module 1 Summary: Principles & Practice of Project Management

·Types and features of projects: uniqueness, timescale, budget, resources, risks, beneficial change, deliverables.

·Project parameters: scope, time, quality, costs.

·Project aims and objectives, project stakeholders.

·Project professionals: personality, character, abilities, skills, communications, time management.

Module 2 Summary: Project Personnel and Teams

·Duties and responsibilities of project leaders and managers.

·Roles of project team members, sponsor, board, executives, administrator/co-ordinator, business analyst.

·Project teams and teamwork: functional and matrix, contracts, diversity of team members, building unity.

·Team objectives, motivation, brainstorming, meetings, briefings.

Module 3 Summary: Project Planning and Organisation

·Project life-cycles and phases.

·Project documentation: charter, scope, budget, business requirements, roles, governance, communication.

·Project organisational structure: organisation charts, contractors, sub-contractors.

·Work breakdown structure, work packages, control of costs and work sequence.

Module 4 Summary: Project Cost Estimating and Budgeting

·Project cost management: estimating, direct and indirect costs/overheads, hidden costs.

·Cost planning, financial planning, cost baselines, advance or early payments.

·Creating a project budget: stages, quantifying expenses, schedule, risk management.

·Quality control planning and acceptance planning: specifications, criteria, types of testing.

Module 5 Summary: The Project Schedule and Project Tools

·Tasks and schedule dependencies: planning dependencies, assigning resources.

·Schedule development: activities: defining, sequencing, durations.

·Critical path methods and analysis, formulae and calculations.

·Project milestones, timeline elements, Gantt and PERT charts.

Module 6 Summary: Project Procurement & Purchasing

·Sources and methods of procurement, ranges of items, specifications, planning.

·Suppliers: sources, research, appraisal, selection: prices, quality, delivery reliability.

·Quotations, estimates, tendering, bids, trade and quantity discounts, credit terms, contracts.

·Purchase orders, expediting orders, monitoring and measuring supplier performance, KPI.

Module 7 Summary: Project Communication Management

·Importance on projects: accuracy, clarity, interpretation, feedback, reaction, follow-up.

·Vertical and horizontal communication, channels of communication.

·Project communication planning: analysing requirements, ensuring regularity, communication matrix.

·Project reports and status reports: when and why produced, to whom distributed.

Module 8 Summary: Project Implementation and Execution

·Preparing and using a responsibility matrix, accountability levels.

·Change management: policy, causes, reasons, types, effects of changes, change request forms.

·Schedule compression: crashing, fast tracking, change control processes, management tools, activities checklists.

·Implementing, monitoring and reviewing changes made.

Module 9 Summary: Project Monitoring and Control

·The project feedback loop, planning, monitoring, reviewing, controlling.

·Influential and critical project success factors, key performance indicators (KPIs).

·Project control process: activities, comparisons, tracking and assessing new risks, data gathering.

·Project metrics, quantifiable measures, variances: schedule, cost, resource utilisation, earned value management.

Module 10 Summary: Project Closure - the Final Phase

·Project completion and early termination, project closure reports; closure or punch checklists.

·Acceptance management: project acceptance forms, determining degree of project success.

·Post-project customer/client evaluation survey, post-project implementation review.

·Final project cost records, preventing expenditure after closure, dealing with surplus materials.

Module 11 Summary: Project Logistics, Development Projects

·The relationship between projects and logistics, transportation in projects and logistics.

·Traffic management on sites, construction, events, safety and accident prevention on sites.

·Development projects: types, stakeholders, aims and objectives: reducing hunger and poverty.

·Raising rural productivity and incomes; humanitarian missions: roles of project management and logistics.

Module 12 Summary: Project Concepts, Outsourcing, Establishing a Project Business

·The project business case: justifying projects and investment, benefits, research, return on investment (ROI).

·Project feasibility, study of market, technical, financial, HR resources.

·Outsourcing processes and projects: reasons, possible advantages.

·Establishing a project business: research, business plan, capital, clients, contracts, fees, accounts, insurance.