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Introduction to project management

• The notions of project and project management. The players in a project. Product and project. The project life cycle. Project process groups. Skills areas.

Managing the project's content

• Planning and defining the content: analysing the product, identifying alternatives, analysing the stakeholders (the players). The models (waterfall, W, iterative). Types of projects: development, integration, deployment. Creating the project breakdown structure: WBS.

Travaux pratiques
Breaking down a project into components and defining the life cycle.

Managing time scales

• Estimating workloads. Estimation techniques: expert judgement (Delphi), analogy, rising estimates (analytical evaluation), parameterised estimates (functions points), probabilistic estimates, general approach.
• Sequencing activities: the antecedents method, arrow diagram, schedule network, determining dependencies, lead-time offsets (forward/back).
• Drawing up the schedule: critical path, schedule compression, analysis of possibilities, levelling resources, the critical path method, the bar chart.

Travaux pratiques
Evaluating workloads with different methods. Drawing up and analysing a diagram.Drawing up and analysing a schedule.

Managing costs

• Estimating costs: techniques and methods.
• Budgeting: cost control, monitoring: budget indicators, building them, analysing them.

Travaux pratiques
Building a budget dashboard.

Managing risks

• Introduction to project risks. Risk management planning. Identifying risks (brainstorming, cause-effect diagram, analysing check lists). Qualitative analyses (probability, impact, risk factors) and quantitative analyses (expected monetary value analysis, decision tree). Risk response planning. Monitoring and controlling risks. Audit: risk factors.

Travaux pratiques
Analysing tables and identifying responses.

Managing sub-contracting

• Planning the contracts. Asking for offers. Administering and terminating the contract.
• The players in a project: the general contractor, the contracting authority: roles and responsibilities.
• Managing project integration: the management plan, leading and steering the execution of the project. Monitoring indicators.

Travaux pratiques
A do-or-buy decision tree.

Managing the project's human resources

• The team. Motivation. Management style. Scheduling resources. Training, developing, leading the project team. The project information system: individual supervision and project supervision.

Travaux pratiques
Leadership style, individual assessment, project progress.

Managing project communications

• Interpersonal communication. Scheduling communications. Disseminating information. Drafting the progress report. Managing the stakeholders: managing conflicts.

Travaux pratiques
Managing conflicts.

Calculating the profitability of projects

• Types of benefit goals. ROI, return on investment. Investment decision.

Travaux pratiques
ROI, payback period.

Managing project quality

• Quality control benchmarks. Quality control and project. Quality control planning. Quality assurance implementation. Quality control implementation.

Travaux pratiques
Metrics search.

Managing expertise on projects

• Company memory and project memory. General structure of a project memory.

Travaux pratiques
Search for capitalisation from identified risks.