Running business projects
A workshop designed specifically to provide the techniques useful to people running often small, but tricky pieces of work with interested, possibly difficult stakeholders and having to meet deadlines, budgets and work with limited resources - sometimes just themselves.
After the workshop the participants will have become confident in the planning and tasking of time-constrained jobs, the outcomes are more certain, and the tools and techniques they can now use stand them in good stead in the execution of their own jobs.
Who is this workshop for?
If you are a business manager, a technical specialist, or in a professional discipline
If you have been asked to run a project and you are not a project manager
If you work on assignments, or use cost codes to organise your work
If you are finding your 'to do' list isn't coping
...this workshop is for you.
The approach
The participants are involved an active exploration of the disciplines of use to deliver relatively small, but sometimes difficult to deliver projects. It uses a series of exercises and short tutor-led discussions to illustrate points about scheduled activity, how to plan quickly and effectively, organising and controlling work in highly constrained management environments, and how to handle the risks and issues that inevitably arise.
The workshop covers these topics:
the difference between projects and other work
planning, estimating and risk
making and working to a schedule
monitoring and control
structuring the work
working with stakeholders
getting work done by people you can only influence
Time: 09:00 - 17:00
Venue: Newlands, Cape Town