Course information

Technical Project Management skills. Hard skills for project success.

This course offers an in-depth view of project scoping, from the original business case to the final realisation of project benefits. You will learn to work collaboratively to develop the suite of deliverables required to monitor and control your project scope.

Aims

This course aims to provide a structured approach to the effective initiation and scoping of a project. You will develop your knowledge and skills to set up your projects for success in the initiation and planning phases.

Outcomes

By the end of this course, you should be able to:

• analyse a business case and benefits as inputs to the project scope
• develop a project charter, including definition of benefits, objectives, success measures and deliverables
• identify stakeholders to define a project scope
• meaningfully engage with stakeholders to define fitness for purpose and develop requirements in a quality plan
• develop a WBS, scope statement, requirements traceability matrix, configuration management
• ensure requirements are in the statement of work and through appropriate procurement strategies
• apply integrated change control methods to control or change scope after project commencement
• describe the role of projects in supporting benefits realisation at a program, portfolio and organisational level.

Content

Strategy & business benefits

• Context and business benefits or outcomes

Initiating a project

• Preparing the project scope statement
• Aligning scope with strategy and benefits
• Identifying and engaging stakeholders

Develop scope & requirements

• Scoping terminology and approaches to scoping
• Developing a work breakdown structure
• Developing requirements, including traceability matrix and configuration management
• Delivering on requirements using a quality plan
• Developing a procurement plan that will deliver on desired scope

Controlling changes to scope

• Integrated change control approaches

Intended audience

• New and experienced Project Managers
• 'Accidental' Project Managers
• Team members and subject matter experts involved in projects
• Anyone interested in working on projects
• Current and aspiring business leaders

Prerequisites

None

Before the Course

Please complete the Communication and Learning Styles Questionnaire using the PDF document below.

Communication and Learning Styles Questionnaire

Please note, the results from this questionnaire are important to parts of the course and must be completed prior to completion of the Forming and leading teams component of this course.

Delivery style

This one-day course focuses on experiential learning. Content is broken into 10-15 minute blocks and immediately followed by group activities where the theory is put into action.

A range of interactive methods will be used including:

• storytelling and the use of professional examples to exhibit the concepts
• self-reflection and group discussions
• case studies where the concepts are actively applied
• individual and team activities and presentations
• suggested readings for after the training.

Materials

You will receive:

• online course materials (using Dropbox) with case study activities and sample templates for your toolkit
• a Statement of Completion.

Courses by module

	An introduction to project management	Technical skills	Forming and leading teams	Scoping a project
Project Management Course: Introduction
Project Management Course: Core Skills
Project Management Course: The Master Class
Project Management Course: Project Scope and Stakeholder Management
Project Management Course: Managing People and Projects *
Project Management Course: Methods, Tools and Techniques *

Note: Each module represents one day of content.

Course content overlaps between courses. Please get in touch if you have questions.

* Managing People and Projects & Methods Tools and Techniques – only available for corporate training bookings.