Project Management

Duration: 2 Days
Investment: $880 incl GST
Delivery: Webinar
(Delivery methods are subject to change)​

 

Target Audience

New Project Managers, Project Team members, Project Sponsors & Governance staff

 

Overview

This 2-day program is designed to give project managers working in councils a comprehensive overview of project management.

 

Key Learnings

  • A comprehensive overview of the art of project management including use of tools and techniques
  • An introduction to commonly used best practice methodologies and frameworks including PMBOK®, PRINCE2® and AgilePM®.
  • Enough of the basics to run your first small project.
 
Day 1
  • High level structures – Portfolios, Programs and Projects
  • Frameworks and methodologies – PMBOK, PRINCE2, AgilePM, Hybrids (their structures and similarities)
  • PM Constraints – Scope, Time, Costs, Benefits, Risks and Quality (STCBRQ)
  • Successful projects – what constitutes a successful outcome?
  • The project managers role
  • Hard/technical skills
  • Soft Skills – Servant leadership
  • Stakeholders and communications
 
Day 2
  • Front end loading - setting up for success
  • Project mandate
  • The business case - elements of successful business cases
  • Estimation/budgeting – Waterfall vs Agile, Work Breakdown Structures
  • Scheduling & resourcing
  • Execution & delivery
  • Day to day management activities
  • Reporting – what to report, Waterfall vs Agile reporting, “RAG” Status reporting – STCBRQ, Costs vs Actuals vs Forecast, Earned Value
  • Close out
  • Handover
  • Project review – use of lessons learnt and continual improvement
  • Post project
  • Ongoing measurement of benefits and reporting

 

Facilitator

Tom Sulda - Director, Lead Trainer LATSA Learning Services
Tom is a business strategy and process consultant as well as a process trainer in Business Analysis, Project Management (Prince2, Agile, PMBOK, Prince2 Agile, and MSP) including Information Security. Tom is a highly experienced business executive having worked across all business functions from the front to back end including corporate services for Not For Profits, Government and Commercial businesses.
 

 

Additional Information

To compliment this training, we recommend you consider attending the Writing Successful Business Cases session. For more information and to enrol, please click below:
Writing Successful Business Cases

All content is underpinned by participants carrying out group activities, including the use of basic tools and techniques to reinforce learning outcomes. Take away learning materials are provided to all participants.

What ‘Delivery Options’ are available for this session?
If a session is scheduled, the delivery options can be found below in the location field of the ‘Upcoming Workshops’ section. (Address = Face 2 Face delivery, Webinar = Virtual delivery)
 
No ‘Dates’ scheduled?
Complete our ‘Enquiry Form’ to be added to our waitlist and notified of upcoming dates.
 
Are you eligible for a ‘Group Discount’?
If you have 5 or more Members/staff from your council interested in a scheduled course, you may be eligible for a group discount. Request a ‘Group Discount eQuote’.
 
Interested in having this program brought ‘In-House’ to your council?
Check your eligibility by requesting an ‘In-house eQuote’.
 
For further information about the content of this program, please contact LGA Training on 8224 2000 or at training@lga.sa.gov.au.
 
Please understand that by registering, you are accepting our policy conditions. For a copy of our policies, please click here.

 



 
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