8505: Effective Project Team Work

Objectives

  • Learn the basics of project management
  • Integrate every aspect of project management: performance, costs, deadlines and risks
  • Work effectively in a project team
  • Steer the project to successful completion

Target audience

  • Newly-appointed or occasional project managers
  • Project team members
  • Project team managers

Pre-requisites

  • There are no pre-requisites for this course

On-the-job benefits

  • Identify your role and your added value
  • Interact effectively in a project team
  • Produce and fine-tune the project’s roadmap in terms of performance, costs, deadlines and risks
  • Keep the project on course as it unfolds

Benefits for the company

  • Increase productivity and obtain the desired results
  • Achieve objectives faster and cut production lead times and production costs
  • Optimise organisation by using cross-functional/ project-mode management
  • Ensure buy-in from project teams

Programme

The learning journey is implemented on LearningHub@Cegos and the content is accessible for 12 months.

Prep

Two 30 minutes e-learning modules

1. Project management essentials

  • Project contribution to your company.
  • Anticipating and organising the project progressively.
  • Identifying the key players.
  • Steering the project.
  • Assuming your role as project manager.

2. The project framework

  • Preparing for the project.
  • The project charter.
  • Strengths and limitations of the task flow chart.
  • Change requests.
2 face to-face

Letting participants exchange work experience and industry information, helping them transfer the skills to performance.

2 days classroom training

1.The fundamentals of project management

  • Concepts
  • The project life cycle
  • Roles and responsibilities in project management

2.Project content and performance management

  • The project charter
  • The task flow chart
  • Managing change requests
  • Project evaluation

3.Time management

  • Constructing a schedule
  • Optimising planning

4.Cost management

  • What is an estimate?
  • The estimating process
  • The project budget and budgeting

5.Risk management

  • Project risk management
  • Identifying and assessing risks
  • Responding to risks
  • Monitoring and controlling risks

6.Working in a project team

  • The personal effectiveness of project team members
  • The collective effectiveness of project team members
  • Project meetings

7.Steering the project

  • Project overview
  • Managing progress
  • Project close
3 reinforce

Personalization: Choose 1 out 3 modules

Three 30 minutes e-learning modules

1. Project planning

  • Working to deadline.
  • Designing your team’s task flowchart.
  • Calculating dates and identifying the critical path.
  • Building the GANTT chart.
  • Building stakeholder commitment to the project schedule.

2. Drawing up a project budget

  • Key concepts of project budgets.
  • Estimating the project budget.
  • Planning the budget over time.
  • Managing the project budget effectively.

3. Anticipating project risks

  • The nature of risks and the process of risk management.
  • Identifying and assessing risks.
  • Responding to risks.
  • Supervising the project’s exposure to risks.

Decide what you will implement and post assessment

Objectives

  • Learn the basics of project management
  • Integrate every aspect of project management: performance, costs, deadlines and risks
  • Work effectively in a project team
  • Steer the project to successful completion

Target audience

  • Newly-appointed or occasional project managers
  • Project team members
  • Project team managers

Pre-requisites

  • There are no pre-requisites for this course

On-the-job benefits

  • Identify your role and your added value
  • Interact effectively in a project team
  • Produce and fine-tune the project’s roadmap in terms of performance, costs, deadlines and risks
  • Keep the project on course as it unfolds

Benefits for the company

  • Increase productivity and obtain the desired results
  • Achieve objectives faster and cut production lead times and production costs
  • Optimise organisation by using cross-functional/ project-mode management
  • Ensure buy-in from project teams

Programme

The learning journey is implemented on LearningHub@Cegos and the content is accessible for 12 months.

Prep

Two 30 minutes e-learning modules

1. Project management essentials

  • Project contribution to your company.
  • Anticipating and organising the project progressively.
  • Identifying the key players.
  • Steering the project.
  • Assuming your role as project manager.

2. The project framework

  • Preparing for the project.
  • The project charter.
  • Strengths and limitations of the task flow chart.
  • Change requests.
2 face to-face

Letting participants exchange work experience and industry information, helping them transfer the skills to performance.

2 days classroom training

1.The fundamentals of project management

  • Concepts
  • The project life cycle
  • Roles and responsibilities in project management

2.Project content and performance management

  • The project charter
  • The task flow chart
  • Managing change requests
  • Project evaluation

3.Time management

  • Constructing a schedule
  • Optimising planning

4.Cost management

  • What is an estimate?
  • The estimating process
  • The project budget and budgeting

5.Risk management

  • Project risk management
  • Identifying and assessing risks
  • Responding to risks
  • Monitoring and controlling risks

6.Working in a project team

  • The personal effectiveness of project team members
  • The collective effectiveness of project team members
  • Project meetings

7.Steering the project

  • Project overview
  • Managing progress
  • Project close
3 reinforce

Personalization: Choose 1 out 3 modules

Three 30 minutes e-learning modules

1. Project planning

  • Working to deadline.
  • Designing your team’s task flowchart.
  • Calculating dates and identifying the critical path.
  • Building the GANTT chart.
  • Building stakeholder commitment to the project schedule.

2. Drawing up a project budget

  • Key concepts of project budgets.
  • Estimating the project budget.
  • Planning the budget over time.
  • Managing the project budget effectively.

3. Anticipating project risks

  • The nature of risks and the process of risk management.
  • Identifying and assessing risks.
  • Responding to risks.
  • Supervising the project’s exposure to risks.

Decide what you will implement and post assessment