Web project management

(Specialised Course - also part of the E-Marketing Professional Gold certificate)

You want to ensure that strategic decisions, however radical, happen in a balanced and organised way. We help you through that thinking so you can innovate with confidence. This course will teach you the skills that make Web Project Managers worth their weight in gold!

The Britefire course will help you formulate projects, define requirements, plan realistic dates, make realistic promises, set and manage realistic expectations, deliver better quality and have satisfied customers. Based on the very latest thinking and experience in the US and UK, you will learn up-to-date rigorous skills and knowledge for anyone who is planning to become certified in Project Management.

You will gain the comprehensive understanding, foundation, experience, techniques and tools to manage the project life cycle:

• Understand the nature of web projects and how to strategically integrate them into your organisation
• Define and manage the project scope and work within organisational constraints of time, cost, quality and budget
• Define requirements that are tied to a deep understanding of the stakeholder needs
• Put together the right multi-disciplinary team for your web project
• Manage and embrace change
• Seven step methodology for Web Project Management
• Manage execution to get the project done on time and within budget

You will acquire an arsenal of professional PM skills, tools and techniques, and the confidence to use them; best practices, inspiring and enlightening examples, and guidelines for staying in tune with developments in the future.

Why Web Project Management?

In today's competitive and fast-paced environment, the creation of high quality products and services is critical to the survival of any organisation. Well managed projects are an important part of this because they are recognised as one of the most effective ways for achieving change and getting things done successfully.

In a web environment the business culture expectation is that things work at 'web speed' - they need to be fast, flexible and responsive to changes and opportunities. Working in such a liberal and real-time environment is fraught with dangers and failed e-projects are legion. It is therefore important that the work is done within the context of a project framework - a project framework that provides agile and professional processes that ensure that the project gets to where it is going - on time and in budget.

Who Should Attend?

This course is aimed at anyone who is involved in projects (or work that should be packaged into projects)

If you are a frustrated IT or web developer because you have too much work, not enough time and are constantly swimming against the tide, then this course is for you. It will help you formulate projects, define requirements, plan realistic dates, make realistic promises, set and manage realistic expectations, and deliver better quality and have satisfied customers.

If you are a marketing executive or business owner or sponsor, you need to know how to manage your projects and those who are working on them for you. You need to know how to use the project environment to ensure that you get what you want when you want it, and that you aren't going to be presented with any surprises.

If you want to pursue a career in Project Management then this course is for you too. It will provide you with the professional disciplines, know-how and skills that any PM professional needs to put together and run any project, no matter what its scope or focus.

• Project managers, aspiring project managers
• Project team members (developers, techies, design and creative team members, quality assurance)
• Agencies - client services, account management, project management and team members.
• Business professionals and stakeholders (whether you are the financial sponsor of the project or a technical or marketing consultant to the project)
• Functional management looking to develop project management disciplines within your organisation

The course is of particular value to people who are involved in web related projects.

Course Leader?

The course is led by Karen Parkin, a digital strategist, web PM, corporate e-commerce expert and international internet business veteran, who has managed major award-winning web development projects for some of the world's largest corporations.

Date: 18 August 2011 to 19 August 2011
Venue: Cape Town
Cost: R4500 (incl VAT, lunch, refreshments, course material & certificate)

Date: 01 September 2011 to 02 September 2011
Venue: Johannesburg
Cost: R4500 (incl VAT, lunch, refreshments, course material & certificate)