Project Management

1.  Explain Fundamentals of project management
2.  Contribute to project initiation, scope definition and scope change control
3.  Contribute to the management of project risk within own field of experience
4. Participate in the estimation and preparation of cost budget for a project or sub project and monitor and control actual cost against budget
5. Supervise a project team of a small project to deliver business objectives.

Learning outcomes 

At the end of this course the learner should be able to: 

· Explain the nature of a project and the project management theories, fundamentals and principles

· Explain the difference between project and non-project work 

· Explain the difference between project management and general management 

· Identify the characteristics of a project and explain them with examples

· Give reasons why projects are undertaken 

· Identify the different types of projects 

· Explain the nature and application of project management 

· Define project management and explain its application 

· Describe and explain the major project management processes 

· Apply project management tools and techniques 

· Explain the basic differences between a matrix and functional organisation structure using examples 

· Understand the reasons for defining structures of a project and the purpose of decomposing a project into manageable components or parts using examples. 

· Explain the concept of programme and project hierarchies with examples

· Describe and explain project organisation structures

· Contribute to the identification and co-ordination of stakeholders, needs and expectations 

· Identify key stakeholders and communicate with according to agreed procedures

· The ability to invest human capital in projects and invest human capital through projects

· Apply Batho Pele principles in relating to stakeholders 

· Explain the project life cycle phases

· Contribute to project initiation, scope definition and scope change control

· Work as a project team member and ensure clear role clarification 

· Evaluate and improve the project team’s performance

· Supervise a project team of a small project to deliver project objectives

· Support the project environment and activities to deliver project deliverables

· Provide assistance in implementing and assuring project work meets quality requirements. Describe and explain project scope as one of the major project processes according to recognised published standards and requirements 

· Describe key processes and activities that take place to manage a project from beginning to end 

· Monitor , evaluate and communicate simple project schedules that will facilitate effective projects execution

· The ability to implement and manage the process of delivery encapsulated in the business case

· The ability to develop an integrated and concise project business case from an identified need or opportunity

· Ensure that deliverables together with the final output are integrated with outcomes

· Briefly describe the supplementary management sub-processes and activities required to support the key processes and activities giving examples of each. 

· Contribute to the identification of project needs, expectations, constraints, assumptions, exclusions and inclusions and deliverables. Contribute to preparing and producing inputs to be used for further planning activities 

· The ability to plan resource utilisation 

· Developing a project costing budget and monitor the progress against the budget, monitor time, cost, the supply chain and project risks during all phases of the project cycle and evaluate project output and outcomes

· Explain the concept of a breakdown structure for product, work and cost, in simple terms 

· Identify, gather from technical experts and prioritise specific activities within the objectives and scope of a project 

· Document activities to the level of detail to support further planning and update related documents 

· Develop activities in sequence with estimates of their duration 

· Develop a simple schedule to facilitate effective project execution 

· Demonstrate an understanding of the purpose and process of scheduling project activities

· Define and gather information about project activities from technical (subject matter) experts and within own field of expertise

· Develop a simple schedule for a project or part thereof 

· Identify elements and resources to be costed through interpreting the project scope statement, work breakdown structure and other project data 

· Participate in the preparation and production of a cost budget 

· Contribute to the monitoring and controlling of cost budget performance by maintaining records and communicating

· Contribute to the monitoring of the achievement of the project’s scope and measure quality and propose corrective action 

· Plan, organise and support project meetings and workshops

· Monitor a project to identify problems and whether it is achieving what is expected

· Identifying and rectifying problems occurring in a business project

· Being able to identify conflict in the team and deal with it