Course Outline

• What is project management?
• Why use project management?
• Benefits of project management
• What do project managers actually do?
• History of PM
• Project management old and new
• Modern scientific project management
• Gantt charts
• The Fayol management model
• Network diagrams
• Critical path method (CPM
• Program evaluation and review technique (PERT)
• Organisational Structure
• The four basic organisational structures
• Project Life Cycle
• The four stage project cycle model
• Milestones and hold points
• Project close-out
• Feasibility Studies
• The client's feasibility study
• Stakeholders
• The client
• Define the constraints on the project
• Value management
• Financial models for project selection
• Payback period
• Return on investment
• Discounted cash flow
• Net present value
• Project Estimating & Scope Definition
• Ball-park cost estimate
• Feasibility study
• CostingSubdivision of project costs
• Direct costs
• Indirect costs
• Time related costs
• Labour & staff costs
• Material & logistics costs
• Miscellaneous costs
• Initiation
• Project charter
• Defining the scope
• Changing scope
• Scope Management
• Project closeout
• Project closeout report
• Project Procurement Plan
• What is required?
• Sourcing
• Communication of requirements to potential suppliers
• Evaluation & selection of supplier
• Review & evaluate tenders
• Manage the Contract
• Closeout
• Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
• Presentation
• Producing a WBS
• WBS numbering system
• WBS and costing
• Further breakdown of WBS
• Critical Path
• Network diagrams: WBS and critical path
• Logic
• Activities in series
• Activities in parallel
• Generation of logic
• Activities: summing up
• Resource Planning
• Estimating
• ForecastingResource availability – constraints on the project
• Use of resources
• Resource overload & underload
• Resource adjustment
• Increasing project resources
• Reducing resources
• Controlling the Project
• Why control projects?
• Scope of control
• Scope management
• Technical backup
• Time management
• Resource & procurement management
• Commercial management
• QHSE
• Gathering information
• Applying project control
• Dealing with people
• Quality Management
• Definitions
• Cost of quality
• Right first time costs
• QA costs
• Internal cost (of failure
• External cost (of failure)
• Quality circles
• Quality auditing
• Conduct of an audit
• Why audit?
• Quality control plans
• Risk Management
• Hierarchy of control
• Controlling risk
• Risk assessment
• Identify the hazard
• Decide who might be harmed
• Evaluate the risks and decide upon  precautions                     
• Record and implement your findings
• Review and update your risk assessments
• Communication
• Assignments