Project management

Project monitoring & control

Once your project is scheduled it must be actively monitored and controlled to ensure it delivers the required scope within its time, cost and quality constraints.

1 day

Course	Location & Date
Project monitoring & control	N/A

Members:
£550.00 Plus vat

Non Members:
£650.00 Plus vat

Summary

Once your project is scheduled it must be actively monitored and controlled to ensure it delivers the required scope within its time, cost and quality constraints.

This course presents the monitoring actions that are available and the associated controlling actions which can be used to keep a project on track, or to cope with deviations.

The programme is delivered by project management experts who will provide a practical guide to the scheduling process.

The course incorporates practical sessions and case studies to ensure you have the opportunity to apply the tools and techniques being presented.

Who should attend?

Project Managers, Team Managers, or personnel in a project assurance or project support role. Delegates with previous basic knowledge of project management should be able to use the techniques in a live project after the course.

A basic knowledge of project scheduling is needed.

How will I benefit?

After the course you will be able to:

Recommend appropriate success criteria and KPIs
Develop the project cashflow and budget
Review and control the project schedule
Arrange and contribute to project reviews
Use Earned Value Management calculations to forecast project end dates and costs
Use Earned Value Management techniques to establish trends and forecast project outcomes
Develop, maintain and interpret milestone charts for use in project reports to senior management

Contributes 7 CPD hours

Key topics

The course covers:

Review of the project schedule
Success criteria and KPIs
Budgeting and cost management
Project reviews
Information management and reporting
Earned Value Management – theory and practice
Earned Value Management – interpreting the results
Milestone charts

Meet our trainers

These trainers regularly teach Project monitoring & control.

Mary Guerdoux-Harries

Mary is an IMechE Chartered Engineer and worked for over 20 years in the engineering and technology sectors for companies such as Jaguar Land Rover, Alstom and Thales, in the UK, France and Switzerland. Her experience covers technical project management and also change management, transformation and operational excellence. Her true passion is for developing human potential and she is a qualified coach, mentor and trainer with the ICF.

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At a glance

Duration:

1 day
CPD Hours:

7
UK-Spec:

E, C

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