Course : Project Management: The Basics
Practical course - 3d
- 21h00 - Ref. PNI
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 | Identifying the main goals of a business project and the roles involved |
| Evaluating workloads and organizing a project's schedule |
| Building and monitoring a project's budget dashboard |
| Monitoring and managing a project's risks |
| Managing indicators for a subcontracting decision |
| Managing and communicating within the project |
Practical details
Practical case study applied to the different phases of a project.
Teaching methods
Active and participatory instructional methods. Alternating theory and practice, and how it applies to the participants’ context and experience
Course schedule
1 Introduction to project management
- Defining what a project is and what project management is
- Understanding the issues in project management
- Grasping basic concepts: Components, types, project stakeholders.
- Life cycle, project and product of the project.
- Awareness of legal restrictions and standards.
2 Defining a project's content
- Preparing demand management: Feasibility, project framework, specifications.
- Defining deliverables: Final product or service, transitional result.
- Determining the project's scope. Organizing the hierarchical breakdown.
- Creating the project management plan. Considering possible alternatives.
- Establishing project documentation management rules.
Hands-on work
Identifying different types of projects.
3 Time, cost, and profitability management
- Estimating durations and workloads to assess human challenges: Analytical method, expert judgment.
- Sequencing activities using a PERT network or Gantt chart: Free margin, total margin, critical path.
- Using compression techniques for resource leveling and planning.
- Estimating project costs: Analogous estimation, parametric estimation, bottom-up estimation, three-point estimation, reserve analysis.
- Creating the budget: Aggregating costs, expert judgment, integrating historical data and budget constraints.
- Evaluating return on investment and managing costs: Profitability threshold, break-even point, budget monitoring.
Hands-on work
Designing a project schedule. Creating the budget of the project's first batch. Calculating ROI.
4 Risk management
- Risk management planning: FMECA methodology.
- Identifying risks: Information-collecting technique, checklist analysis, assumptions, SWOT.
- Qualitative analysis: Description and categorization of risks, probability assessment and risk impact.
- Quantitative analysis: Evaluation and matrix of a risk's probability and impact, criticality, risk modeling.
- Risk response planning: Strategies for negative risks, positive risks, conditional response.
- Searching for the causes of risks: Ishikawa diagram (5M), Five Whys method.
- Monitoring and reducing risks: Risk auditing, gap and trend analysis, performance measurement.
Hands-on work
Identifying potential risks and the response to risks.
5 Entering into a contract
- Planning contracts: Decision tree to choose between production and purchasing.
- Launching a request for proposals: Functional or non-functional specifications, requirements, response framework.
- Selecting subcontractors: Assessment criteria and grading proposals.
- Administering and executing the contract: Negotiating the specifications and proposal, approving the contract.
- Managing the integration of a service provider into the management plan and project monitoring.
Hands-on work
Decision tree for "buy or do".
6 Oversight and communication
- Planning human resources: Analysis of environmental factors and organizational assets.
- Training, developing, leading the project team: The five steps of creating a team, recognition, rewards.
- Tracking the team's activity and assessing it. Evaluating performance.
- Individual monitoring and project monitoring: Progress report, dashboards, evaluation meetings.
- Planning communication: Analysis of needs, using technology, communication methods and models.
- Distributing information and reporting: Required frequency, available technology, project duration, etc.
- Managing, negotiating, and handling conflicts: Disagreements, tensions, obstruction, conflicts whether open or not.
Hands-on work
Creating the project responsibility matrix. Building the project progress dashboard.
7 Quality management and knowledge management
- Knowing the definition of quality and the standards. Project acceptability criteria.
- Planning quality: Analyzing the cost-benefit ratio, special quality management methods.
- Implementing quality assurance and control: Quality audits and analyzing the process.
- Project report, successes and failures, institutional and project memory.
Hands-on work
Identifying the project's quality metrics.
Customer reviews
4,5 / 5
Customer reviews are based on end-of-course evaluations. The score is calculated from all evaluations within the past year. Only reviews with a textual comment are displayed.
MOHAMED ALI B.
19/08/26
4 / 5
Formation très pratique avec un contenu concret et une bonne implication des participants.
AMANDINE T.
19/08/26
5 / 5
Très bonne introduction sur les fondamentaux de la gestion de projet.Adaptabilité du programme par le formateur selon le niveau des participants, très appréciable.
SEBASTIEN D.
19/08/26
4 / 5
D’un point de vue purement personnel, j’aurais souhaité plus d’éléments visuels et/ou d’exemples concrets. Il y en a eu dans la formation mais sur des univers différents, ç’aurait été plus enrichissant.
Publication date : 07/25/2024
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TRAINER QUALIFICATIONS
The experts leading the training are specialists in the covered subjects. They have been approved by our instructional teams for both their professional knowledge and their teaching ability, for each course they teach. They have at least five to ten years of experience in their field and hold (or have held) decision-making positions in companies.
ASSESSMENT TERMS
The trainer evaluates each participant’s academic progress throughout the training using multiple choice, scenarios, hands-on work and more.
Participants also complete a placement test before and after the course to measure the skills they’ve developed.
TERMS AND DEADLINES
Registration must be completed 24 hours before the start of the training.
ACCESSIBILITY FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES
Do you need special accessibility accommodations? Contact Mrs. Fosse, Disability Manager, at psh-accueil@orsys.fr to review your request and its feasibility.
PREREQUISITES
TRAINER QUALIFICATIONS
The experts leading the training are specialists in the covered subjects. They have been approved by our instructional teams for both their professional knowledge and their teaching ability, for each course they teach. They have at least five to ten years of experience in their field and hold (or have held) decision-making positions in companies.
ASSESSMENT TERMS
The trainer evaluates each participant’s academic progress throughout the training using multiple choice, scenarios, hands-on work and more.
Participants also complete a placement test before and after the course to measure the skills they’ve developed.
TEACHING AIDS AND TECHNICAL RESOURCES
• The main teaching aids and instructional methods used in the training are audiovisual aids, documentation and course material, hands-on application exercises and corrected exercises for practical training courses, case studies and coverage of real cases for training seminars.
• At the end of each course or seminar, ORSYS provides participants with a course evaluation questionnaire that is analysed by our instructional teams.
• A check-in sheet for each half-day of attendance is provided at the end of the training, along with a course completion certificate if the trainee attended the entire session.
• The main teaching aids and instructional methods used in the training are audiovisual aids, documentation and course material, hands-on application exercises and corrected exercises for practical training courses, case studies and coverage of real cases for training seminars.
• At the end of each course or seminar, ORSYS provides participants with a course evaluation questionnaire that is analysed by our instructional teams.
• A check-in sheet for each half-day of attendance is provided at the end of the training, along with a course completion certificate if the trainee attended the entire session.
TERMS AND DEADLINES
Registration must be completed 24 hours before the start of the training.
ACCESSIBILITY FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES
Do you need special accessibility accommodations? Contact Mrs. Fosse, Disability Manager, at psh-accueil@orsys.fr to review your request and its feasibility.
This programme is an original creation, developed by the teaching teams at ORSYS Formation. Any reproduction, representation, adaptation or use, in whole or in part, without the prior written authorisation of ORSYS, is strictly prohibited. ORSYS reserves the right to take any action necessary to protect its intellectual property rights.
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