Project Definition & Mobilisation Training

Description:

This Project Definition and Mobilisation training course is aimed at raising awareness and skills relating to the Definition of major projects. The course is workshop based, and can be tailored to suit your business processes, terminology and culture.

It can also be delivered in workshop style on actual live project teams as part of facilitating more effective project definition and team building.

Course Duration

1-2 days

Intended for (who)

Project teams members, team leaders, project managers and analysts, project office managers and staff.

Course objectives:

•  To improve skills relating to project definition
•  To raise awareness of the criticality of this phase / process
•  To enable project team members to understand the project definition process and participate more effectively.

Introduction & Overview

•  Course Objectives

Feasibility / Bidding

•  Application of PM disciplines during bidding or feasibility
•  Ownership and responsibilities

Improving Project Definition

•  Goals, Objectives and benefits: what they are; how to identify, capture and communicate them.
•  Requirements: managing requirements from the strategic perspective
•  Developing project strategy: the most key milestone in every project's lifecycle; how to capture this in useful format' using this to communicate and build ownership; importance to teamworking and effectiveness of project team.
•  Capturing the total scope of the project; improving project level estimates; 'no big surprises'.
•  Work Breakdown Structures: the basis of a product or deliverable based project management; key to: improved estimating; organisation and clarity of responsibilities; improved performance management during execution.
•  Risk Management: integration of risk management

Improving Project Organisation

•  Team Based Roles: how to bring clarity to team based responsibilities on complex projects
•  Principles of Project Organisation: developing an organisational model that works for you
•  Co-Location: benefits & challenges
•  Developing Customer Relationships
•  Developing Supplier / Partner Relationships

Improving Mobilisation

•  Improving planning of the environment and resources
•  Ensuring controls and measures of performance are in place
•  Project launch: objectives; alignment; managing expectations; managing this process as you go forward.

From Mobilisation to Delivery

•  Managing the transition

Once attended this course

•  you will be able to participate more effectively in Project Definition and Organisation