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Project management: the basics of being a project manager – #115
Context
Your new job as a project manager requires specific technical and management skills. You need to use the main tools of project management to improve your current practice, to report, to lead your team and to anticipate the hard points.
Objectives
- Understand your role as a project team manager.
- Identify the different stakeholders of a project and the levers of satisfaction.
- Know how to manage a project effectively: resources, indicators, planning and milestones, communication with stakeholders.
- Identify risks and failure factors.
- Know how to use project management tools at different stages of the project.
Recommanded for
Anyone who is inspired to become a project manager.
Prerequisites
- Proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint.
- Participants should have a laptop computer and an internet connection or the possibility to retrieve files via USB stick.
Pedagogy
- A case study forms the common thread of the training and serves as a support for the use of the proposed tools.
- The summary of the activities and exercises carried out enables each participant to identify ways of progressing that can be transposed into his or her company or personal practice.
Evaluation mode
- Knowledge test (MCQ).
Course materials
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Participant file containing the presentations delivered during the training and the exercise materials.
To go further
Consulting services : EURO-SYMBIOSE can assist you in the concrete implementation in your company. Contact us to know more about it.
Introduction to project management:
- Project definition
- Different projects
- The elements of a project
- Managing a project
The birth of a project:
- Understanding the project
- Stakeholder requirements
- Gathering the company’s internal requirements
- Customer requirements
- From needs analysis to feasibility analysis
Practical application to the case study
Setting up the project:
- Communicate
- The project identity card
- Managing the project team
- Project tools: the schedule
- Sharing experience
Practical application to the case study
Project management:
- Development activities
- Â Project risk management
- Â Project communication
- Project review
- Project deliverables
Practical application to the case study.
Resources in the project :
- Monitoring resources: the budget
- Managing the project team
- The role of the project manager
- Enemy behaviours of the project
- Project interfaces
Practical application to the case study.
Closing the project:
- Actions to be taken for closure
- The project balance sheet
- Â The RETEX
Practical application to the case study.
Project methods:
- Agile or traditional method.
Virginie DELABY - VERESCENCE
“Many exchanges, relevant and adapted to our daily life. A good dynamic thanks to the supports adapted to our processes. “
Hélène RICHARD - VERESCENCE
“Very interesting and appropriate training, perfectly covering project management at VRS with the necessary hindsight to improve our daily work. The trainer’s interesting comments made it easy to apply the course. “
Julie DELORME - VERESCENCE
“I was able to deepen my knowledge of the process. Lots of interaction and conviviality. “
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