Description
Pre requisites: None
Pre work: None
Overall aim of workshop: This workshop uses project management as
an approach in managing a wide range of activities and is not simply
applicable to 'conventional' projects. Project management skills are
increasingly required by colleagues in a wide range of professional
service and academic roles, many of whom manage or work on multiple
projects. This approach takes each participants work role and breaks it
down into a portfolio of projects which need to be managed individually
and collectively.
Intended outcomes: By the end of this workshop, participants will
have:
- Discussed a practical model for project management;
- Discussed and practised key tools and techniques for effective and
efficient project management;
- Applied these to the task of managing individual as well as multiple
projects;
- Worked out ways to integrate project management tools and techniques
into their everyday work and to interpret their role in terms of a
portfolio of projects;
- Improved their skills and underpinning knowledge of project
management;
- Identified ways that they can apply the learning from the course to
their work at the University of Leeds.
Indicative content:
- Clarify between maintenance and progress project
- Project roles of sponsor project manager
- Key drivers in projects
- Estimating project time and activities within project
- Project Tools, PERT charts, WBS, Key Milestones, Cloud diagrams and
risk analysis.
Tutor: Chris Fox - Creating-Abilities Ltd
Chris Fox is passionate about developing leaders and managers to release
the full potential of organisations, teams and individuals in work and
in communities. Partnering with people like the University of Cambridge,
Institute for Manufacturing; the Bradford Life Centre and a small
network of consultants with similar values he works to facilitate longer
term changes and improvements. With over twenty five years experience of
working across a variety of sectors he brings with him a rich variety of
development methods, illustrations and practical suggestions.
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