Management & Soft Skills
Project Management Fundamentals
A programme in the fundamentals of project management for engineers and technicians who run maintenance, development or field work projects: defining scope, building the schedule, estimating and tracking cost, managing risk and preparing periodic reports.
Overview
About the programme
Duration
3 days
Training hours
15 hours
Delivery
Training hall · Virtual · At your premises
Language
Arabic or English
Objectives
Training outcomes
- Define the project scope and deliverables and break it down into work packages.
- Build a schedule of activities and their sequence, and identify the critical path.
- Estimate the project cost, set the budget and track spending against progress.
- Identify and assess risks and record response plans in a risk register.
- Prepare a periodic report showing progress, variances and open issues.
Content
What the programme covers
Day 1: initiation and scope
- The project and its life cycle: initiation, planning, execution, monitoring and control, and closure.
- The project charter and stakeholders.
- Scope: requirements, deliverables, the work breakdown structure and scope change control.
Day 2: schedule and cost
- The schedule: activities, dependencies, duration estimates, the critical path and the Gantt chart.
- Resources: allocating them and resolving conflicts between them.
- Cost: estimating, budgeting, tracking spending and an introduction to earned value indicators.
- Applying scheduling in scheduling software or in Excel.
Day 3: risk, monitoring and closure
- Risk: identification, assessment by likelihood and impact, response plans and the risk register.
- Communication and periodic reporting: the status report, variances, issues and decisions required.
- Closure: handover, lessons learned and archiving documents.
- An integrated exercise on a project from an operational setting, followed by the assessment.
Who it is for
Target audience
Engineers, supervisors and project coordinators in technical and operational organisations, and anyone assigned to manage a project without previous project management training.
Method
Delivery method
Short lectures and an integrated exercise running across the three days, in which participants plan a project from an operational setting, such as a unit shutdown for maintenance, fitting out a laboratory or a field work campaign.
Questions
FAQ
Does the programme prepare participants for a professional project management certification?
No. The programme is foundational and leads to a certificate of completion from the centre; it is not preparation for any particular professional certification exam.
What software is used?
Scheduling exercises are done in Microsoft Project if the organisation has it, or in Excel; no prior proficiency in either is required.
A programme tailored to your organisation
The duration and topics of the programme are adjusted to the organisation's needs, and it is delivered at its site, in a training hall arranged by the Center, or virtually.