Project Management Fundamentals

5-day Comprehensive

In-company Courses

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Take charge of all aspects of challenging projects with confidence. Improve productivity by managing scope, time, cost, risk, quality, human resources and stakeholders better.

Recommended for anyone managing complex, risky projects. Diploma option available.

  • Fill any gaps in your professional knowledge
  • Ensure you’re applying best practice methods to your real-world projects
  • Maximise your project margins with way less stress
  • And much, much more…

Receive industry recognised training

All topics map to the management processes outlined in the Global Standard PMBOK® Guide.

Contact hours/PDUs: 40

Perfectly suited to people in the following roles:

  • Project Managers
  • Project Engineers
  • Construction Managers
  • Senior Supervisors
  • Superintendents
  • Quantity Surveyors
  • Senior Schedulers
  • Senior Cost Accountants
  • Architects
  • Anyone managing construction projects

What will I learn?

Through interactive discussions, construction case studies and a diagram-rich workbook, our experienced trainers with help you learn:

Get tips and tricks on:

  • Reconciling contractual obligations to “reality”
  • Managing scope creep
  • Being more assertive
  • Motivating your teams
  • Communicating bad news
  • Getting projects back-on-track

How to set your projects up for success

  • Measuring project success
  • Defining projects in the context of risk
  • Defining the role of the project manager
  • Applying the PMBOK® framework
  • Juggling constraints and trade-offs
  • Optimising productivity

How to initiate construction projects

  • Formalising a project charter
  • Developing a hand-over checklist
  • Engaging the right people from the start
  • Clarifying the contract scope
  • Identifying key commercial risks
  • Prioritising long lead-time items

How construction project life cycles work

  • Developing a project lifecycle
  • Initiating processes
  • Planning processes
  • Executing processes
  • Monitoring and controlling processes
  • Closing processes

How to manage scope

  • Developing a scope management plan
  • Collecting requirements and traceability
  • Defining the scope
  • Creating the WBS and baselining the scope
  • Managing variations
  • Gaining acceptance and completion

How to engage stakeholders

  • Developing a stakeholder management plan
  • Identifying stakeholders and their needs
  • Analysing stakeholders
  • Developing a project organisation structure
  • Developing engagement strategies
  • Maintaining stakeholder engagement

How to manage the schedule

  • Developing a schedule management plan
  • Defining and sequencing activities
  • Estimating durations and PERT
  • Determining the critical path and float
  • Building and baselining the schedule
  • Managing EOTs and utilising float

How to manage costs

  • Developing a cost management plan
  • Estimating costs accurately
  • Baselining the cost using s-curves
  • Recognising revenue and margin
  • Using earned value to control costs
  • Tracking WIP and forecasting costs

How to manage risk

  • Developing a risk management plan
  • Identifying and prioritising risks
  • Quantifying risks
  • Developing a contingency budget
  • Determining and implementing risk controls
  • Monitoring risks continually

How to manage procurement

  • Developing a procurement management plan
  • Identifying contractors and suppliers
  • Managing the tendering process
  • Selecting sellers and negotiating the contract
  • Expediting and materials management
  • Administrating the contract

How to ensure good governance

  • Understanding management plans
  • Setting up a project board structure
  • Integrating the management processes
  • Managing change control
  • Managing project knowledge
  • Capturing and sharing lessons learnt

How to control construction projects

  • Developing a start-up checklist
  • Tracking productivity metrics
  • Driving the management processes
  • Utilising daily, weekly, and monthly check lists
  • Being proactive rather than reactive
  • Reporting progress and forecasting

How to manage quality

  • Developing a quality management plan
  • Defining standards and specifications
  • Managing NCRs and quality assurance
  • Getting things right the first time
  • Managing ITPs and quality control
  • Driving continuous improvement

How to manage communications

  • Developing a communications management plan
  • Choosing appropriate forms of communication
  • Managing meetings and documents
  • Using active listening techniques
  • Developing assertiveness skills
  • Having difficult conversations

How to lead and manage human resources

  • Developing a HR management plan
  • Allocating roles and responsibilities
  • Managing team competencies
  • Building and maintaining team performance
  • Providing praise and criticism
  • Coaching and mentoring your team

How to close-out construction projects

  • Developing a close-out checklist
  • Preventing cost leakage during the DLP
  • Maintaining momentum during close-out
  • Closing out the final report and lessons learned
  • Processing the final payment claim
  • Celebrating success!
  • Measuring project success
  • Defining projects in the context of risk
  • Defining the role of the project manager
  • Applying the PMBOK® framework
  • Juggling constraints and trade-offs
  • Optimising productivity
  • Reconciling contractual obligations to “reality”
  • Managing scope creep
  • Being more assertive
  • Motivating your teams
  • Communicating bad news
  • Getting projects back-on-track
  • Formalising a project charter
  • Developing a hand-over checklist
  • Engaging the right people from the start
  • Clarifying the contract scope
  • Identifying key commercial risks
  • Prioritising long lead-time items
  • Developing a project lifecycle
  • Initiating processes
  • Planning processes
  • Executing processes
  • Monitoring and controlling processes
  • Closing processes
  • Developing a scope management plan
  • Collecting requirements and traceability
  • Defining the scope
  • Creating the WBS and baselining the scope
  • Managing variations
  • Gaining acceptance and completion
  • Developing a stakeholder management plan
  • Identifying stakeholders and their needs
  • Analysing stakeholders
  • Developing a project organisation structure
  • Developing engagement strategies
  • Maintaining stakeholder engagement
  • Developing a schedule management plan
  • Defining and sequencing activities
  • Estimating durations and PERT
  • Determining the critical path and float
  • Building and baselining the schedule
  • Managing EOTs and utilising float
  • Developing a cost management plan
  • Estimating costs accurately
  • Baselining the cost using s-curves
  • Recognising revenue and margin
  • Using earned value to control costs
  • Tracking WIP and forecasting costs
  • Developing a risk management plan
  • Identifying and prioritising risks
  • Quantifying risks
  • Developing a contingency budget
  • Determining and implementing risk controls
  • Monitoring risks continually
  • Developing a procurement management plan
  • Identifying contractors and suppliers
  • Managing the tendering process
  • Selecting sellers and negotiating the contract
  • Expediting and materials management
  • Administrating the contract
  • Understanding management plans
  • Setting up a project board structure
  • Integrating the management processes
  • Managing change control
  • Managing project knowledge
  • Capturing and sharing lessons learnt
  • Developing a start-up checklist
  • Tracking productivity metrics
  • Driving the management processes
  • Utilising daily, weekly, and monthly check lists
  • Being proactive rather than reactive
  • Reporting progress and forecasting
  • Developing a quality management plan
  • Defining standards and specifications
  • Managing NCRs and quality assurance
  • Getting things right the first time
  • Managing ITPs and quality control
  • Driving continuous improvement
  • Developing a communications management plan
  • Choosing appropriate forms of communication
  • Managing meetings and documents
  • Using active listening techniques
  • Developing assertiveness skills
  • Having difficult conversations
  • Developing a HR management plan
  • Allocating roles and responsibilities
  • Managing team competencies
  • Building and maintaining team performance
  • Providing praise and criticism
  • Coaching and mentoring your team
  • Developing a close-out checklist
  • Preventing cost leakage during the DLP
  • Maintaining momentum during close-out
  • Closing out the final report and lessons learned
  • Processing the final payment claim
  • Celebrating success!

About your trainer, Robin Millner

Robin learnt project management the hard way. Starting out "in the trenches" as a Project Engineer, then working his way up to Project Director on some of the largest and toughest projects around.

His hands-on experience, in everything from modest projects to major initiatives worth hundreds of millions of dollars, underpins his practical, no-nonsense approach.

As an educator, Robin has a talent for explaining complex subjects in a simple way. This, combined with a Bachelor of Engineering degree and significant industry experience, sets him apart from other trainers.

He has designed content and personally trained over 2,500 project professionals from organisations across Australia, Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Robin also holds a Certificate IV in Training and Assessment.

Having worked on both the contractor and client side of the fence, Robin is well placed to provide his students with unique perspectives from both points of view.

Qualifications:

  • Bachelor of Engineering, graduating with Honours (UNSW)
  • Certificate IV in Training and Assessment (AIM)
  • Project Management Professional (PMP, PMI)
  • Diploma of Project Management (GILD)
  • Certified Practicing Project Practitioner (CPPP RegPM, AIPM)
  • Practitioner in Programme Management (MSP, Axelos)
  • Practitioner in Agile Project Management (AgilePM, APMG)
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About Ram Education

Ram Education is a group of construction project management veterans with a passion for helping you get your projects to the finish line on time, without tearing your hair out or blowing your budget.

Since 2002, we've provided project management training to the construction industry in organisations large and small, throughout Australia, and around the world.

Ram Education brings a practical, no-nonsense approach. Our trainers have experience in the real-world of construction projects and are qualified Engineers.

What makes us different

  • Tailored courses 100% relevant to your business
  • Expert trainers with real-world construction experience
  • Faster learning with engaging, industry-relevant content

Courses for every level

  • Nationally recognised Diploma and CertIV qualifications
  • Comprehensive courses for upcoming professionals
  • Short courses to get your teams up to speed fast
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