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Quick Look Course Summary:Stop Project “Rot”: Intermediate Project Management Course (1 day)
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Length: 1 day(s)
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Price (at your venue): 1 Person R 5,654 EX VAT 3 Person R 3,982 EX VAT 10 Person R 2,954 EX VAT
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Certification Type:Non-Accredited
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Locations & Venues: Off-site or in-house. We train in all major city centres throughout South Africa.
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Stop Project “Rot”: Intermediate Project Management Course (1 day)
Catch the early signs of project rot – drifting quality, unmanaged risk, a disengaged team, silent stakeholders – and keep projects healthy to the finish.
Projects rarely fail overnight. They rot: quality checks slip, risks nobody owns turn into issues, the team loses focus, stakeholders hear nothing until it is too late, and the final report is a surprise. This one-day intermediate project management course is for people who already know the basics of planning and scheduling and now need to keep larger, more complex projects on track.
The day starts with the principles behind modern project management – stewardship, value, stakeholder engagement, systems thinking, tailoring and adaptability – and the performance areas every project manager has to watch. It then goes deeper into the areas where projects most often go wrong: planning quality and telling quality assurance from quality control; identifying, analysing and responding to risk; organising the project, bringing in the right people and building the team; planning communication; and reporting performance and closing a project properly.
Delegates work on their own current project throughout, with short exercises on a quality plan, a risk register, a responsibility matrix and a one-page status report. They leave with a health check they can run on any project, and a list of the fixes their own project needs first.
Why this course
For your organisation
- Problems surfaced while they are still cheap to fix
- Consistent quality and risk practices across projects
- Clearer roles and better-engaged project teams
- Status reports that tell sponsors the truth early
For your delegates
- A project health check to use on any project
- Practical templates: quality plan, risk register, RACI and status report
- Better judgement on how far to tailor the approach to each project
- A clear step up from the fundamentals course
What delegates will be able to do
- Apply core project management principles such as stewardship, value focus and tailoring to a real project
- Plan quality and distinguish quality assurance from quality control
- Identify risks, analyse them qualitatively and quantitatively, and plan responses
- Monitor and control risk through the life of the project
- Define roles and responsibilities and build an effective project team
- Plan and distribute project communication to the right stakeholders
- Report project performance clearly and close a project with a proper handover and lessons learned
Who should attend
Project managers, project coordinators and team leaders with some project experience who now run larger or more complex projects, and graduates of the Project Management Course who want the next step. Line managers who sponsor or oversee projects will also benefit.
Course outline
Day 1 – Keeping projects healthy from start to close
Why projects rot – and the principles that prevent it
- Early warning signs of a project in trouble
- Outputs, outcomes and the value a project must deliver
- Stewardship, ethics and the project manager's responsibilities
- Stakeholder engagement, systems thinking and leadership
- Tailoring the approach: predictive, adaptive and hybrid
- Complexity, adaptability and responding to change
Quality management
- Quality basics: requirements, standards and acceptance criteria
- Quality planning
- Quality assurance: building quality into the process
- Quality control: checking deliverables
- The cost of poor quality
- Exercise: a one-page quality plan
Risk identification and analysis
- Risk management planning
- Identifying threats and opportunities
- The risk register and risk owners
- Qualitative analysis: probability and impact
- Quantitative analysis: when and how to use it
Risk response, monitoring and control
- Response strategies: avoid, transfer, mitigate, accept and exploit
- Contingency and fallback plans
- Reviewing risks as the project moves
- Exercise: a risk register for your own project
Organising the project, the team and communication
- Organisational planning and the project structure
- Roles and responsibilities: the RACI matrix
- Acquiring staff and building the team
- Stakeholder mapping
- Communication planning and distributing information
Performance reporting and closing the project
- Measuring performance against the baseline
- Status reports and dashboards that show real progress
- Handover, acceptance and closing a project
- Lessons learned
- Personal action plan: the fixes your project needs first
How it is delivered
One day, 08:30-16:00. In person at your offices anywhere in South Africa, at a BOTI venue, or live online. One delegate or a group of up to 20; delegates can work on their own live projects, and examples can be tailored to your sector. Workbook and templates included. We deliver it at your offices in Johannesburg, Pretoria, Durban, Cape Town and anywhere else in South Africa, at a BOTI venue in Johannesburg, or live online for teams in different places.
What our clients say
“The training was well received and we were impressed by the knowledge of the facilitators and the quality of overall training.”
“The training went well, and judging by the feedback from the evaluation forms we received, we were impressed by the knowledge of the facilitator and the quality of training overall.”
“The feedback received from them was great. The material was easy to understand, and the trainer was very patient and friendly.”
Frequently asked questions
Is this course right for a beginner?
It builds on the basics. If you are new to project management, start with the Project Management Course; if you already run projects, this intermediate day is the next step, and the Project Management Advanced Course follows it.
Can you run it at our offices, and for how many people?
Yes. We train at your premises anywhere in South Africa, at a BOTI venue or live online, for one delegate or a group of up to 20.
Is it accredited?
No – it is a non-accredited short course and delegates receive a BOTI certificate of attendance. For a credit-bearing route, ask us about the QCTO Occupational Certificate: Project Manager.
Can delegates work on their own projects?
Yes. Delegates are encouraged to bring a current project, and the exercises on quality, risk, roles and reporting are applied to it.
Does it cover agile methods?
It covers how to choose between predictive, adaptive and hybrid approaches. For a full agile course, see our Scrum Fundamentals and Scrum Master courses.
Can you run this course in Johannesburg, Cape Town or Durban?
Yes. We train on site at your offices in Johannesburg, Pretoria, Durban, Cape Town and across South Africa, at a BOTI venue in Johannesburg, or live online so a team spread over several offices can attend together.
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