THE PSYCHOLOGY AND PRINCIPLES
OF PROJECT MANAGEMENT

No project will go perfectly. There will always be a risk you didn’t anticipate, tasks that run longer than they should have, project team members that didn’t perform as you expected. If it can happen, it probably will!

In the past few decades, organizations have discovered something incredible: the principles that have been used to create enormous successes in large projects can be applied to projects of any size to create amazing success. As a result, many employees are expected to understand project management techniques and how to apply them to projects of any size. This workshop will give participants an overview of the entire project management process, as well as key project management tools that they can use every day.

There are many types of project management designed for different scenarios and different industries. This workshop will focus on the traditional method, used by the Project Management Institute, which follows five process groups.

PROJECT TOPICS:

The People in the Project - Psychological Preferences and Getting the Job Done

• Personality preferences and How to Manage Each Style.
• Learn how to analyze team members' behaviours and how to work with them.
• Learn how a team matures and how to deal with personal roadblocks.

Key Concepts - What is a Project, Project Management, Project Manager?

• Identify the importance of PMBOK and the PMI.
• Identify the five process groups and nine knowledge areas as defined by the PMI.
• Describe the triple constraint.

Initiation - Getting off on the Right Foot

• Assess Needs and Wants.
• Identify your Stakeholders.
• Create Smart Objectives.
• Create Requirements.
• Create a Statement of Work.
• Create the Project Requirements Document.
• Create the Project Planning Worksheet.
• Build the Work Breakdown Structure.
  

Planning - Planning is Everything, the Plan is Nothing

• Build a Project Schedule by estimating time, costs and resources.
• Understand and use the Work Breakdown Structure.
• Create documents: Schedules, Risk Management Plan, Communication Plan.
• Use planning tools: the Gantt Chart, the Network Diagram, the Critical Path.

Maintaining and Controlling

• Establish and use Baselines.
• Monitor Baseline Variances.
• Perform Basic Management Tasks: leading status meetings, ensuring all documents are complete at the end of the project.

Closing Out

• Completing administrative and personnel tasks.
• Scope verification.
• Document checklist.

BENEFITS:

This workshop deals with how you can improve your understanding and skills when dealing with projects of all kinds. This workshop can assist you in understanding and working with the principles and tools of how to successfully complete a project.

Although you do need project management skills to be a project manager, you don’t need to be a project manager to use project management skills. You will find uses for most of the tools taught in this workshop in your day-to-day life, both personal and professional.

PARTICIPANTS:

Whether you are the project manager, the stakeholder, a team member, or responsible for some part of a project, this workshop will teach you the basics tools and enhance what you already know on how to bring a project in on time and within budget.

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