This practical project management training course will be conducted over a period of 5 days, starting from 8:30 AM and ending at 3:30 PM* daily, with allowances for short refreshment breaks, prayer time, and a lunch break.

*For in-house courses, timings can be customized by mutual agreement.

Practical Project Management Training in Dubai.

PROJECTS IN ORGANIZATIONS

• What is Project Management?
• What is a project?
• Projects Vs. Operations – similarities and differences
• Value of Project Management and how you fit in
• Why do projects fail? And what is project success?
• Strategies, Portfolios, Programs & Projects – making sense of these common terms

THE PROJECT ORGANIZATION & YOU

• Typical project roles and responsibilities
• Role of the Project Manager – Is this you?
• Critical skills for every Project Manager – Do you have what it takes?

INITIATING THE PROJECT

• Understanding what your task is about (developing the Project Charter)
• Ensuring you have the right team, as well as tools, data and authority
• Determining who needs to be involved (who are your Stakeholders?)
• Analysing your stakeholders and how they can impact your project
• Preparing for, and conducting, a project kick-off meeting

GROUP WORKSHOP – Attendees will work in groups to write a Project Charter, planning out project team requirements, and identifying and analysing the project stakeholder

PLANNING YOUR PROJECT SCOPE, SCHEDULE & BUDGET

• Determining your project requirements, and what your stakeholders and management need using common requirements gathering techniques
• Developing your final project scope
• Identifying the key components (deliverables) of your project scope using the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
• Understanding the step-by-step methods of preparing an effective project schedule
• Estimating how long your project will take to complete
• Estimating the budget and cash disbursements required to deliver the project
• Assigning the work of the project to your team

GROUP WORKSHOP – Attendees will work in groups to develop the project WBS, schedule and budget in this practical project management training.

DEVELOPING YOUR PROJECT COMMUNICATIONS, QUALITY & RISK PLANS

• Developing your project communication plan
• Determining required quality activities for your project & planning for them
• Identifying and recognizing potential risks that could affect project performance
• Analysing risks and developing risk response strategies and mitigation plans
• Developing contingency plans and estimating the required contingency fund (buffer)

GROUP WORKSHOP – Attendees will work in groups to develop a communication plan, quality plan and identify the project risks

IMPLEMENTING YOUR PROJECT

• Holding the Implementation Kick-off meeting
• Developing The Project Deliverables Acceptance Plan
• Implementing your QA/QC Plan
• Following up and updating the project with actual schedule & costs data
• Manage project risks, issues and contingency reserves
• Analysing performance and generating forecasts for the schedule & budget
• Creating project progress reports and holding effective project review meetings

GROUP WORKSHOP – Attendees will work in groups to simulate project implementation via a project management game. Each group’s project will be subjected to risk scenarios and they will be asked to react and bring their projects back on track.

CLOSING THE PROJECT

• Verifying completed project scope and accepting the finished deliverables
• Understanding what punch (snag) lists are
• Implementing the project hand-off activities
• Releasing project staff
• Performing project administrative closure activities
• Closing out the project documentation
• Finalizing contracts & invoices
• Capturing & documenting lessons learned

GROUP WORKSHOP – Practical Project Management Training attendees will work in groups to prepare a final report on their projects and present it to the rest of the attendees