How to Commence and Successfully Manage Small Projects

Explore the big picture of project management and learn how to run a small project or be part of a project team.

Why is this course important?

Managing and working on short projects represent much of the work done in many teams across Australia today. Yet, according to a study by PWC, fewer than 3% of organisations completed all of their projects on time, on a budget, and to the project’s original specifications in the past decade.

Learning to manage projects well and contributing to a project team benefits the project and you. Managing a small project and project team will boost your confidence and the skills to navigate many of the complexities of project management.

How to Commence and Successfully Manage Small Projects session is a perfect introduction to help you learn more about the field of project management and how to manage a project team and work with your project sponsor. Don't just guess how to lead a project; discover the key project management concepts in this practical and hands-on training.

Course Objectives

This course will increase your ability to:

• Understand the difference between project management and task management.
• Know how to manage the four stages of a typical project.
• Realise all of the small yet important facets that make a project succeed.
• Initiate and define your next project.
• Work with a project team, whether they are from within your team or outside your organisation.
• Move a small project forward.
• Work around common project problems.
• Close and evaluate a project’s success.

Just Some of What You Will Learn

• Identifying the project outcome and how it can best be achieved.
• What are a project manager's roles and responsibilities?
• The project management life cycle.
• Planning a project.
• Identifying stakeholders and selecting the right people for the project team.
• Translating projects tasks and activities into S.M.A.R.T sub-tasks.
• Creating a project schedule that includes timelines, milestones and responsibilities.
• Initiating your project.
• Monitoring and controlling your project.
• Closing off your project the right way.