Description:

This two day project management course covers an important business process.

Change is the norm in business these days. Change is the way business prepares itself for the future. Large scale change is often outsourced to specialist companies’ expert in change management, often also called project management. But most changes taking place in business are small and may not take very long to implement. Nevertheless, the nature of change is complex and even small changes can be challenging.

This course is therefore for those people managing change internally within a business environment. It will establish a solid foundation of understanding of the processes and the tools and techniques adopted to make a project a success and to guard against those issues which we know can result in project failure.

The course will give you a thorough understanding of the change management process using case studies for individual and group exercises aimed at consolidating the learning and converting the knowledge to practice. It will focus on those issues most likely to cause problems to internally-led change. It will introduce the delegates to the tools and techniques which can be used in the small project environment. Project or change management is all about success and satisfying those who the change is for. Stakeholder analysis will make sure we know who that person or department is.

There are many tools in project management and some are too complex to be practical in short duration projects. So we will introduce you to alternatives which provide the same benefit for considerably less effort.

This course provides important management knowledge and will be useful for all senior managers involved in change as well as those actually charged with bringing the change about. For successful internal business change, this is a worthwhile course.

An Attendance Certificate will be provided at the end of this course.

Vital Benefits:

Project management is all about success. Success for those requesting the change is critica,l but success for the team is important too as it creates the environment where they can confidently face future challenges. The course provides the following vital benefits:

• A reliable starting point based on proven knowledge from decades of experience by people willing to learn and challenge the status quo
• An understanding of the language of project and change management
• A clear knowledge of the importance of how the change you are managing benefits those who require it - ensuring satisfaction
• An increase in your commercial value and in your company’s marketability through an increase in skills and capability

Objectives:

The complex nature of change requires capability and skill to achieve success. In this course, it is our objectives to provide:

• A clear understanding of the knowledge of project management as it is documented by the Association of Project Management (APM)
• A good understanding of the skills required in project management
• The information necessary to work knowledgably in the management of internal change
• An environment where learning is enjoyable and effective
• Good examples in the history of projects to support the learning
• An advantage over your peers based on solid project management knowledge

Topics:

The course is based on current best practice as documented by the APM, IPMA and PMI. We have taken the relevant knowledge from these documents in order to create a practical course for internal change within business. The topics covered are:

• Development of a statement of needs
• Project context, life cycle, and roles and responsibilities
• Success and benefits analysis, stakeholder analysis, project management plan and risk
• Scope management, scheduling, resource management, information flow and problem management
• Estimating and managing changes
• People issues including communication, teamwork and leadership
• Reporting and handing over the completed change and review
• Celebrating success with the team

Who to Attend:

This course is an excellent course for all those who find themselves working on changes within the business. Managing change is not the same as managing business; it requires a different set of tools and is generally less bureaucratic. This course is an excellent introduction to project and change management and we recommend it to:

• People on the fringe of project management who need to know more about the process
• People involved in managing change internally in business who need to understand the processes and how they interact
• Those who want to know more about how their effort contributes to the project success and how they can help more
• Those who need a quick start before launching a project
• All those within the business who simply want to know more about project management and how it may be used in other areas of business