Project Management Fundamentals
Proven methods and techniques for your project success
You want your projects to run more quickly and smoothly – with considerably less stress, frustration and time pressure? Are you dreading to justifying the overspend on your budget once again? You simply wish to recognise project risks earlier on and to be able to tackle these with the right tools? The question is: What can you do about it?
Seminar Objectives
In our seminar you will learn pragmatic, professional methods which will tangibly ease your work as project leader. We help you as a project leader to achieve enhanced internal assurance, to use your time more efficiently, to replace chaos with structure, to stick to plans more effectively and to gain the recognition that you deserve for your project work. This will enable you to complete projects within the given time and budget, and in accordance with quality specifications. PS Consulting’s project concept has been implemented for many years with great success in thousands of projects – including international ones.
Your Benefit
We work concretely on your project and not on general case studies. All theoretical inputs and methods presented are immediately applied in workshops to the project that you have brought with you. Whilst working on your project in small groups within the scope of the seminar, it is possible to discuss and solve questions and problems immediately. This enables us to ensure definitive transferral to everyday work on your project. Back at your desk, you will be able to start work right away, effectively and with entirely new impulses. This seminar is based on the internationally recognised standards of the Project Management Institutes (PMI®).
Seminar Topics
Basic understanding
- What is essential for good project management?
- Exercise: ABC project simulation
Project definition
- When is a project successful?
- What belongs to a good definition of objectives?
- How can projects be made measurable?
Project organisation
- How is a project integrated into its environment?
- How are roles and responsibilities distributed in the project?
- How do I configure communication routes?
Project planning
- How do I make projects manageable?
- How do I plan activities, time and resources / costs?
- How do I optimise my plans and keep them realistic?
Project risks
- How can I recognise risks at any early stage and manage these proactively?
Project control
- How do I keep a sound overview?
- What does this require in terms of constant communication?
- What do I do if something starts to get out of control?
- How do we deal with change and escalations?
Project documentation
- What needs to be documented and how?
Project completion
- What does this comprise of and how do we learn from experience?
Further Details
- Target Group
This seminar is designed for project managers and experienced project team members. The more concrete projects you will bring along the more you are going to benefit. - Group Size
Maximum of 12 participants. This way, we wish to make sure that the seminar is highly efficient and guarantee the highest possible benefit for you. - Language
Our open enrolment courses are in German only. As an in-house seminar we can deliver this course also in Enlish, French, Italian and Spanish. - Duration
3 Days - Notice
In English, we normally conduct this course only as an inhouse-seminar. Please contact us for further details. If you are interested in open enrolment courses in German, please visit our German language site.