PROJECT PLANNING WORKSHOP

The Project Planning Workshop is recommended for Project Managers, Team Leaders, and Project Teams who wish to improve their planning and scheduling skills. It does not assume any prior knowledge of planning, and whilst it does not hide its PRINCE2™ origins, no prior knowledge of PRINCE2™ is required.

Reasons for participating in this workshop:

• To learn a simple method for breaking a project into its elements.
• To understand the type of information that needs to be gathered for each element.
• To learn how to build a whole schedule up from its elements.
• To practice applying this method to a real life project.

The outline agenda is:

• Introduction, Objectives and Background
• Planning pre-requisites including Project Definition and Quality
• Planning a project including a Product Breakdown Structure
• Product descriptions & Product Flow Diagram
• Activities, Estimates and Scheduling
• The keys to successful planning

Approximately half the course consists of practical exercises based around real projects contributed by the course attendees. Exercises include preparing a Plan Definition, Acceptance Criteria, a Product Breakdown Structure, a Product Description, an activity list and a high level GANTT chart.

Currently, this course is only available as an In-House course.

If you would like to discuss this course, or register interest for your company please email us at manager@rational.com.au

Format & Presentation: This course is delivered over one day and is a blend of instruction through lectures, audio-visual presentations and case study exercises. Participants receive course manuals and soft copies of the templates used.

Derivation: This course is derived from Rational Management's fully accredited PRINCE2™ Project Management Methodology Course however it eliminates some of the detailed aspects of PRINCE2™ and therefore does not cover the full curriculum and is not an accredited course.