Summary

Projects are one-off pieces of work that are completed within a fixed timescale. They are undertaken to create unique products and services. They usually contain a great deal of risks, uncertainties, and complexities that need to be managed. Projects are necessary for there to be development in any business or nation. The challenge however is that management of projects could be complex especially if the requisite knowledge and skills are missing in those saddled with this responsibility.

There are a series of project management approaches and tools to help organizations reduce these risks, and create an effective platform to deliver project objectives. These approaches have been carefully documented over the years and they can be learnt.
Training in project management, especially one with a practical approach, can help participants gain the necessary knowledge and skills to appropriately utilize the project management tools and techniques to ensure success on their projects.

Course Objectives

This course is uniquely designed to help people who actually handle projects to acquire specific skills, approaches, and tools they’ll need to run projects successfully. This program is designed to ensure officers and managers are well equipped to manage projects/tasks by utilizing proven management tools and techniques that guarantee results. At the end of the course, participants will be able to;

• To set up projects and manage them successfully to completion
• To identify key success factors for project success while managing the triple constraint
• Utilise key project management tools and techniques to deliver on project objectives

TRADITIONAL (Based on the Project Management Body of Knowledge – PMBok Guide)

• • Framework for the Management of Projects – learn the fundamentals of setting your project up to succeed. Understand the planning cycle and aligning organizational structure with business goals
  • Project Initiation Documents – Get your project off to a great start have a good grasp of the necessary initiation documents
  • Scheduling – Projects involve a huge number of tasks with multiple inter-dependencies. Learn the tools and techniques for planning what needs to be done, and when
  • Scope Management – learn to define your project clearly, and to avoid the problem of ‘scope creep’.
  • Building Support for Your Projects – Engaging the right people in the right way, and at the right time, is critical to project success, know how to do this.
  • Communication – Monitoring the progress of a project is vital for keeping it on track. These effective reporting tools will keep everyone involved in the project up to date.
  • Change Management – Projects are, by nature, all about change. Many people find change hard to handle, which can disrupt successful implementation. The tools in this section will help you manage the important ‘soft side’ of projects.
  • Request for Proposal (RFP) Documents – Get better terms with a competitive bidding process.
  • Risk Impact/Probability Chart – Learn how to prioritize risks on your small and large projects

  AGILE (Based on the Agile Scrum Guide and Agile Practice Guide)

• Agile project management has become an increasingly powerful and popular manner to develop new or improved products, services, or results in a variety of fields such as software development, engineering, product development, pharmaceuticals, and process improvement. In environments with moderate uncertainty (for example, changing customer needs or unknown root cause), agile project management has been found to produce higher customer satisfaction in less time compared to more traditional, plan-driven project management methodologies. This course provides both the practice and the theory of planning and managing agile projects focusing on the Scrum It provides both the agile knowledge and skills necessary for scrum masters (coaches), product owners (customers), and team members to succeed. Areas to consider include;

• Understanding and Applying the Scrum Framework
• Empiricism
• Scrum Values
• Roles
• Events
• Artifacts
• Done
• Self-Organizing Teams

Project Directors, Project Managers, Project Supervisors, Project Engineers, Project Management Team members as well as all Project management team members who desire to improve on their project management know how and expertise

4 days (Classroom)

Participants will be required to complete assignments and additional coursework online beyond the 4 day classroom experience.

Classroom (Physical and/or Virtual)

120,000 naira only

Certificate of Attendance.

Optional certification exam at testsandcerts.com