Enterprise Project Management & Business Performance

Course overview

Course outline

1. 1Day One: Managing Business Performance

   • Vision, Values, Mission and Strategy
   • The Balanced Scorecard
   • Financial, Customer, Business Process and Change/Growth perspectives
   • Linking strategy and objectives (Cause and effect)
   • Outcome measures, performance drivers and feedback
   • Implementing Business Performance Management
2. 2Day Two: The Need for Project Management

   • What is a project?
   • Problems and difficulties associated with projects
   • Why use project management?
   • The project lifecycle
   • Understand the project context
   • Initiating a project with key stakeholders
   • Introducing Risk management 
3. 3Day Three: Project Planning

   • The contents of a Project Management Plan (PMP)
   • Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
   • Project Network diagram
   • Project estimating and cost management
   • Time scheduling (the Critical Path)
   • Resource scheduling (the Gantt Chart)
4. 4Day Four: Managing Project Implementation

   • Preparing for project execution
   • Designing the monitoring process
   • Project control processes
   • Project reporting
   • Project closure
   • Project evaluation
5. 5Day Five: Business Process Re-Engineering (BPR)

   • The principles and benefits of BPR
   • The re-engineering process stages
   • Process mapping
   • How to re-engineer business processes
   • Change management
   • Final course review and action planning