How to become a successful Project Manager by AVPT Global

The Skills Checklist

• All encompassing
• Goals met as soon as possible (product, time, and money)
• Applies knowledge, skills, and techniques
• Balance competing demands
• Work with a mixture of people/technology
• Multi-task
• Define the scope of the project
• Define goals you can meet and keep them
• Time management
• Management identity clusters
• Strong project management identity
• Good at documenting steps
• Self-confidence
• Flexibility

Summary stages of developing a project

“The only thing worse than training people and having them leave, is not training them and having them stay”

Conceptual/Creation/Initiation Stage

• Establishing a need
• Determining feasibility
• Searching for alternatives
• Preparing proposals
• Developing basic budgets
• Determining basic schedules
• Naming the starting project team
• Study; discuss, and analyse
• Write the project definition
• Set and end-results objective
• List imperatives and desirables (SOW)
• Generate alternative strategies (Brainstorming)
• Evaluate alternatives & choose a course of action

Planning/Growth/Sell Stage

• Setting goals
• Listing tasks to be done
• Developing schedules in a sequence
• Developing a budget
• Getting your plans approved by stakeholders
• Conducting studies and analyses
• Designing systems
• Building and testing prototypes
• Analyzing results
• Obtaining approval for production
• Establish the project objective
• Choose a basic strategy for achieving the objective
• Break the project down into subunits or steps
• Determine the performance standards for each subunit
• Determine how much time is required to complete each subunit
• Determine the proper sequence for completing subunits
• Determine the cost of each subunit
• Design the necessary staff organization
• Determine the number of staff needed
• Determining kind of positions
• Determine what training is required for project team members
• Develop the necessary policies and procedures
• Market study
• Pilot test
• Computer simulation
• Estimating labor costs
• Estimating labor
• Estimating overhead
• Estimating materials
• Estimating supplies
• Estimating equipment rentals
• Estimating general and administrative

Implementation/Execution/Operation Stage

• Getting the time
• Getting the money
• Getting the people
• Getting the equipment
• Meeting and leading the team
• Communication with all stakeholders
• Controlling the work in progress
• Establishing standards
• Monitoring performance
• Inspection
• Interim progress reviews
• Testing
• Auditing
• Taking corrective action

Termination/Close out/ Evaluation Stage

• Letting go of the project
• Celebrate success
• Release resources
• Project completion checklist
• Test project output to see that it works
• Write operations manual
• Complete final drawings
• Deliver project output to client
• Train client’s personnel to operate project output
• Reassign project personnel
• Dispose of surplus equipment, materials and supplies
• Release facilities
• Summarize major problems encountered and their solution
• Document technological advances made
• Summarize recommendations for future research and development
• Summarize lessons learned in dealing with interfaces
• Write performance evaluation reports on all project staff
• Provide feedback on performance to all project staff
• Complete Final audit
• Write Final report
• Conduct project review with upper management
• Declare the project complete

The Statement of Work (SOW)

• The purpose of statement
• The scope of statement
• The project deliverables
• The goals and objectives
• The cost and schedule estimates
• The list of stakeholders
• The chain of command
• The communication plan

Project Management Fundamentals 1 day training course

Our  one-day workshop will help you teach participants how to:

–       Define the terms project and project management

–       Identify benefits of projects

–       Identify the phases of a project’s life cycle

–       Sell ideas and make presentations

–       Prioritise projects

–       Begin conceptualszing their project, including goals and vision statements

–       Use a target chart and other planning tools

–       Complete a Statement of Work

What’s Included?

• Instruction by an expert facilitator
• Small interactive classes
• Specialised manual and course materials
• Globally accredited certificate

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