Practical Project Management – Online Course

Description

The Practical Project Management – Online Course equips your team with all the fundamental knowledge needed to deliver projects well and work effectively in project management environments.

The course consists of one 90-minute session followed by three one-hour sessions delivered over four to eight weeks (depending on the schedule we agree).  In each session, we’ll step through a different module, each exploring a different element of project management:

The six key principles of project management (90mins)
This session forms the basis for all project management.  The principles are simple to understand, yet incredibly powerful when it comes to successful project delivery.  We’ll look at:

• Defining a project: Vision, Benefits and Objectives
• The PM and the Sponsor
• Three Kinds of Service: Time, Cost and Quality
• Setting baselines & pulling levers

How does it feel? Defining your project scope (60mins)
Understanding how to scope a project and define the requirements will mean the end result is much more likely to match up to expectations.  Protecting against ‘scope creep’ will also insure your project against one of the big causes of project failure.  We’ll look at:

• Building your outline scope
• Defining requirements
• Scoring requirements
• Scope creep

Who’s on the team? (And who isn’t.) (60mins)
Getting the right people on your team is yet another factor in getting projects right.  But how do you know who should be on your project team?  How do you get the correct balance of expertise?  And how do you manage a group of disparate people with authority?  We’ll look at:

• Who’s on the team? Roles encountered on (almost) every project team
• Who’s not on the team? Stakeholder management
• You are not the expert
• Authenticity and authority

Building your project schedule (60mins)
Getting a project plan that is at the right level of detail whilst also being robust enough to withstand challenge and changes is a dark art.  We’ll open the door and let the light in though, helping you to quickly put together a project plan that gets the job flipping well done.  We’ll look at:

• Identifying tasks and the right level of detail
• Assigning and scheduling tasks (visual representations)
• Dependent tasks and the critical path
• Building the plan

And you don’t even need to leave your desk?!  Crazy right?

The course
Each session runs for one hour for up to 12 participants. We usually suggest booking sessions 1-2 weeks apart to allow participants to fit the course in with their usual workload, start putting the techniques into practice and gather any questions ready for the next session. Modules can be swapped out to create the bespoke course of your dreams, and you can add a 5th module to the course for a small additional cost.

Dates and times
The next cohort for this course will run on the following dates :

• Session 1: 22 September 2025, 14.00 – 15.30 BST
• Session 2: 29 September 2025, 14.00 – 15.00 BST
• Session 3: 6 October 2025, 14.00 – 15.00 BST
• Session 4: 13 October 2025, 14.00 – 15.00 BST

Cost
The course costs £1,580 for groups of 8 – 12 people, or £200 per person for individuals (in other words, £50/session).  Prices exclude VAT.

Build it and they will come
We plan to run the course on the dates shown, but we do need to sell a minimum number of places for the exercises to work and for participants to get the full value from the course.  Therefore, please note that we reserve the right to cancel or postpone the course if we do not meet the minimum number of spaces to proceed.  If this should happen you will be offered to keep your place, but on a subsequent date or you can opt for a full, no-quibble refund.

This is great, but I’d like even more amazing training
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