project planning

breakthroughs

A proven process that can be immediately understood and implemented by your whole team

  • Having trouble defining clear project objectives and scope?
  • Unable to determine tasks, timelines and dependencies?
  • Wrestling with resource allocation and constraints?
  • Lacking project budgeting skills?
  • Don’t know how to handle project change?
  • Juggling operational commitments and project work?
  • Rushing project closure and missing lessons learned?
  • Want to boost team morale and satisfaction with projects?

Project Planning Breakthroughs will help you overcome these challenges.

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AT A GLANCE

Audience

Anyone, novice or veteran, who manages, supports or initiates projects

Format ​

Either:

  • 3 x 1-day, instructor-led face-to-face workshop
  • 4 x 4-hours, instructor-led online sessions

What’s Included

  • Learning materials
  • Comprehensive Learning Guide and Resource Manual​
  • The book ‘Making it Happen – a Non-Technical Guide to Project Management’
  • LearningLink: Our monthly productivity e-newsletter to keep you updated.
  • Priority Management is an Authorized Training Partner with the Project Management Institute and attendees are eligible for PDUs (Professional Development Units).

Project Plans that Actually Work

Regardless of the diversity among people, locations, departments, or disciplines involved, this program provides a streamlined overview of the basics, while focusing on a vastly improved methodology to meet the rigorous challenges of developing a project execution plan.

Our Practical training uses real world examples that give people the skills and confidence to plan, lead and deliver projects successfully.

This course will help you:

  • Develop a complete and comprehensive Objective Statement; the foundation of a successful project
  • Create a detailed Execution Plan using a unique process called Objective Driven Logic, applied to a Time-Scaled Dependency Chart
  • Apply a simple, yet powerful method to resolve complex resource constraints
  • Calculate a detailed Budget and Cash Requirement Projection
  • Integrate contingency planning through “Scenario Estimating”
  • Determine where and when to best apply project management software
  • Bring final closure to the project through the application of a 3-level review process
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What You Will Learn

Project Origins

Examines how project management developed as a discipline and the differences between project work vs operational work. Discusses where projects come from.

Defining the Project

Focuses on clarifying the project objective, scope, roles and responsibilities through tools like the Objective Statement and Project Charter.

Planning Execution

Presents methods and tools to determine project tasks, timelines, resource allocation, budgets, and resolving constraints.Aim is to produce the most effective execution plan.

Managing Execution

Looks at handling change, coping with operational vs project work, bringing the project to successful closure through a 3-level review process.

Detailed Synopsis

Format ​

Either:

  • 3 x 1-day, instructor-led face-to-face workshop
  • 4 x 4-hours, instructor-led online sessions

What’s Included

  • Learning materials
  • Comprehensive Learning Guide and Resource Manual​
  • The book ‘Making it Happen – a Non-Technical Guide to Project Management’
  • LearningLink: Our monthly productivity e-newsletter to keep you updated.

Units

  • Genesis: In this unit you will learn to lay a solid foundation for the project
  • Design: We will show you the design framework and the importance of performance criteria
  • Execution Planning: You will learn how to create a project execution plan
  • Execution: You will learn how to manage the project plan including changes
  • Review: We will show you how to learn from the experiences
  • Supplements: Additional Tools and Techniques: In this section we have compiled additional tools and techniques to use in planning and managing projects, starting with a Project Survival Guide
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What our Graduates say about this course

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After 25 years in the project management field and having undertaken many courses and qualifications, I can confidently state that PPB is the most useful course I have taken. The course focuses on the most important part of any project, getting it off the ground. It has fundamentally changed how I plan and initiate projects using a set of tangible tools and techniques that are implementable irrespective of the size or complexity of the project. It is rare that a course can deliver real change in how you manage something you have done for many years and PPB has successfully achieved this for me. I would definitely recommend it to anyone looking to develop their PM skillset.

John BurkeProject Director
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The tools I’ve learnt I know I will keep for a life time and it stretched my thinking beyond what I already knew about project management.

J.G.Projects Manager
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It is rare that a course can deliver real change in how you manage something you have done for many years and PPB has successfully achieved this for me.

John BurkeProject Director

Making Projects Work

Problems

  • Lack of User Input
  • Changing Requirements
  • Lack of Resources
  • Unclear Objectives
  • Unrealistic Time Frames

Solutions

  • Project Foundations – developing objective statements
  • Clarifying the Design Features and Performance Criteria
  • Creating & preparing detailed Execution Plans
  • Reviewing projects afterwards at 3-levels
  • Involving the whole Team to share expertise and gain commitment
  • Using highly visible tools that take the complexity out of planning

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