Project management ‘masterclasses’

A 60-minute, 90-minute or half-day session

Masterclasses? Refreshers? Introductions?

It depends what you’re looking for and where you want to pitch them, but here are six tried-and-tested highly focused sessions that organisations can take individually or as a series, to help develop their teams’ project management capabilities one topic at a time.

There are six sessions in all:

Stakeholder management

Requirements and prioritisation

Estimating

Scheduling

Risk and issue management

Budgeting and cost control

Understand why stakeholders matter to projects
Be able to identify and engage stakeholders
Be able to categorise stakeholders by their significance
Understand how clarity of requirements contributes to project success
Use different techniques for prioritising requirements
Agree requirements with stakeholders
Manage changes to requirements
Understand the different purposes estimates satisfy
Be able to use different estimating techniques
Understand how to achieve different levels of accuracy

Understand how to create a viable schedule
Be able to use different forms of schedule
Understand the concept of the critical path
Understand the difference between risks and issues
Be able to identify and assess risks
Understand ways of mitigating risks
Manage issues
Understand what to include in a budget – and why
Choose – and use – the appropriate estimating technique
Align the budget with the schedule
Understand how to monitor spend and control costs
Trouble-shoot effectively to get projects back within budget

Who should attend?

The sessions can be pitched at any level, according to your priorities and your team’s experience.

Format

Flexible. A 60-minute session (delivered virtually, via Zoom or Teams) is an effective introduction. A 90-minute session allows for more in-depth treatment. A half-day session (face-to-face or virtual) gives time for a more challenging workshop, using exercises and scenarios.

Special features

The session content is aligned to APM and PMI principles but can be tailored to your organisation’s own models and processes to help ensure that participants are continually relating the learning to their own projects.

Expert trainer

Steve is a highly experienced and qualified consultant, project management practitioner and trainer. He has more than two decades’ experience of project management practice and more than a decade of training provision. His experience includes the delivery of multi-million pound projects and programmes, sometimes involving more than one country. He first used Agile in the 1990s.