|  BUSINESS CHALLENGE
To provide participants with the knowledge, skills, and best practices needed to be an effective project manager in a variety of environments.
 TARGET AUDIENCE
This programme will benefit those who are new to, or are currently involved in, managing projects, but have no formal training in this discipline.
 LEARNING OUTCOMES
On successful completion of this programme, it is expected you will have the tools to be able to;
- Conceive a project
- Bring projects in on time and avoid budget over-runs to achieve business outcomes
- Manage, motivate and organise people for project success
- Recognise and remove barriers to individual and team performance
- Develop
- Assess projects in terms of feasibility, suitability and risk
- Negotiate realistic project goals, constraints, charters and responsibilities
- Develop a work breakdown structure for a project
- Conduct a project task analysis and prepare project Gantt charts and network diagrams
- Estimate costs and task times including use of the PERT formula and other techniques
- Design and apply a decision matrix
- Assign resources to tasks and prepare project resource schedules
- Conduct a trade-off analysis to determine optimum balance of quality, cost, and schedule requirements
- Conduct risk management and prepare a project plan
- Prepare a project budget based on task costings
- Execute
- Delegate work packages
- Develop project status reports
- Monitor project process including earned value analysis
- Conduct project reviews and team meetings
- Manage variations
- Manage conflict and change associated with a project
- Finish and evaluate
- Close the project and evaluate its performance
 PROGRAMME STRUCTURE
The programme is highly practical and participatory involving brainstorming, case studies, individual and group exercises and application of project management principles to the participants own workplaces. A major project planning exercise and presentation.
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NZIM Diploma in Project Management - Level 5
 PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK
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 IN-COMPANY OPTION
NZIM will partner with you to deliver a customised programme for your organisation. NZIM partner with some of New Zealand’s leading organisations, to deliver high quality learning programmes, designed to meet specific organisational needs.
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