About the Course This course is designed to provide you with a broad understanding of what a project is and how they are controlled. Duration The course will take approximately four to 5 hours to complete. Exam It is an online course without exam. Learning Objectives By the end of this course, you should be able to: Describe the six key project objectives. Distinguish between project management and business-as-usual activities or BAU. Explain the role and key responsibilities of the project manager. Differentiate between the responsibilities of the project manager and project sponsor throughout the project. Describe other roles within project management, including users, project team members and the project steering group/board and the product owner. Describe the functions and benefits of different types of project office. Explain the relationship between stakeholder analysis, influence and engagement. Explain the importance of managing stakeholders’ expectations to the success of the project. Differentiate between, linear, iterative and hybrid lifecycles. Explain why projects are structured as phases in a linear life cycle. Explain the differences between a project life cycle and an extended life cycle. Explain tools and techniques used to determine factors which influence and impact projects, including PESTLE and, SWOT. Explain how to define scope in terms of outputs, outcomes and benefits, including use of product, cost and work breakdown structures. Explain the way in which an organisational breakdown structure issued to create a responsibility assignment matrix. Explain three approaches to producing estimates-, parametric, analogous and analytical. Explain ways to create and maintain a schedule, including critical path and Gantt charts. Describe how resources are categorised and allocated to a linear lifecycle schedule. Differentiate between resource smoothing and resource levelling.
