COURSE INFORMATION

Scheduled Dates: 04 – 15 Mar '2024 | 03 – 14 Jun '2024 | 08 – 19 Aug '2024 | 02 – 13 Dec '2024  

Duration: 2 Weeks

Computerized Project Management course is available Online.

Customized dates and one-on-one sessions can be organized.

Preamble

Computers and project management is a course designed to help the learner in developing competence in project management software following appreciation of project management information system. For this reason, this course is divided into two sections in a preliminary order. The first section focuses on Project Management Information System (PMIS). Project Management Information System is a framework for guiding the progress of a project and helps to increase its chances of success at all levels. It brings accurate and relevant information to management and other stakeholders within the required time frame, and helps to speed up the decision making process and any action necessary to ensure that the project is on track in terms of time, budget, scope, quality and time line objectives. Learning project management information system in this course is designed to be a foundation that will enable a learner to apply any project management software in project management.
The second section of the course focuses on application project management software where MS Project has been chosen as introductory software. After going through PMIS theories, the learner will have a session for learning and applying MS Project.

Course objectives

• Enable the participant to view and understand project management as a system characterized by information and deliverables input-process –outputs relations.
• Acquire necessary competence to identify and manage project information at project initiation, planning, tracking and execution and closure stages.
• Competence in identifying and ensuring effective communication that increases chances of project success.
• Learn and appreciate the application computer software in project management

Course Outline

Introduction to Project management information systems

• Concept system and Project management process
• System analysis and design
• Project management information system framework- Collecting, Organizing, Storing, Processing and Disseminating

Project information.

• Types of project management information system
• System flowcharts
• Information technology and general functional information systems
• Characteristics of effective project management information system

Project Information Management 

• Project Execution Outputs
• Historical information
• Information distribution
• Request for information
• Work performance information

Project Scope information

• Requirements
• Configuration items (deliverables)
• Configuration management
• Changes/variations

Project Time management information

• Schedule
• Tasks
• Milestones
• Microsoft Project interface (with full round-tripping)
• Timesheets (updating task percentage complete)
• Gantt charts

Project Quality management information

• Reviews and inspections
• Test plans
• Test scripts
• Test runs
• Defects
• Service calls

Project Resources information management

• Categories of resources in project
• Skills data base
• Lessons learnt

Project Cost information management

• Costs
• Revenues
• Benefits
• Project profit and loss
• Project cash flow
• Flexible chart of accounts
• Flexible people cost and charge-out rates
• Budgets
• Forecasts
• Actuals
• Progress payments
• Earned value analysis (reports, graphs, instructions and interpretation analysis)

Project Communications information management

• Data collection, processing and analysis
• Monthly status reporting
• Weekly progress reporting
• Document management
• Document distribution
• Reviews
• Meetings
• Media and publication

Application of Computer Software in Project Management

• Background to computer and project management
• Implementation of a computer system in Project Management
• MS Project application
  
  

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TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF PAYMENT

1. Fees Payment - All fees are payable strictly in advance 2 working days before the course starting date.
2. Cancellation Fee - Cancelletion of any participant 5 working days before the start day of a course will incur a 20% cancellation fee.
   We regret that no cancellations will be accepted within 2 working days of a course, but substitutions may be made.

COURSE INFORMATION

Scheduled Dates: 05 – 16 Feb '2024 | 06 – 17 May '2024 | 05 – 16 Aug '2024 | 04 – 15 Nov '2024

Duration: 2 Weeks

Customized dates and one-on-one sessions can be organized.

Course Objectives

1. Develop an ability to discuss, formulate and present suitable governance structures for project-based organizations.
2. Develop communication plans for projects, programs and portfolios to win the support of stakeholders, and to explain how to develop trust and manage potential conflict. Develop a communication strategy between the project manager and project sponsor.
3. Describe the developing theories of leadership competence, and explain their application to the leadership of projects, programs and portfolios.
4. Describe the needs of governance of organizations and particularly of the project-based organization, explain the elements and structures of governance in the project-based organization, and its role in developing organizational project management capability.
5. Formulate governance structures for project-based organizations, addressing the needs of delivering bespoke products and services to different types of customer, and governance structures for projects, to manage risk and uncertainty, and explain and create roles associated with the governance structures.
6. Analyze the requirements for the governance of the project-based organization, critique the strengths and weaknesses of classical management, explain how its weaknesses make it inappropriate for the modern environment, but appreciate the importance of retaining the strengths, and so recognize issues faced by the project-based organization.
7. Analyze how project-based organizations develop policy and strategy, and formulate structures, including program and portfolio management, to link projects to corporate strategy.
8. Formulate an integrated governance paradigm for their organization, by critiquing the requirements of their organization and integrating the elements of the course.

Course Outline

• Project-based management versus classical management.
• Definitions of project governance.
• Governance of projects.
• Corporate governance.
• Linking projects to strategy.
• Governance in context.
• Diagnosing and developing organizational project management capabilities.
• Developing individual competence.
• Human Resource Management in the Project-Based Organisation.
• Leadership.

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TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF PAYMENT

1. Fees Payment - All fees are payable strictly in advance 2 working days before the course starting date.
2. Cancellation Fee - Cancellation of any participant 5 working days before the start day of a course will incur a 20% cancellation fee.
   We regret that no cancellations will be accepted within 2 working days of a course, but substitutions may be made.

COURSE INFORMATION

Scheduled Dates: 08 – 19 Jan '2024 | 26 Feb – 8th Mar 2024(Dubai) | 01 – 12 Apr '2024 | 01 – 12 Jul '2024 | 07 – 11 Oct '2024

Duration: 2 Weeks

Customized dates and one-on-one sessions can be organized.

Preamble

This course will enable participants to be able to;
• Comprehend the core process needed for fundraising;
• Reliably identify potential sources of funding.
• Write professional, effective, persuasive requests for funding;
• Confidently "pitch" your case for funding orally;
• Effectively handle any "closing" aspects of the negotiation

Target Group

This course is designed for anyone who is working in a Non Governmental Organisation environment, is planning to start an NGO or is working in a donor funded project environment.

Course Outline

• Concepts in Project development and management
• Needs Assessment, Project Development and Proposal writing
• Innovative Project strategies in Project funding processes
• Skills necessary in successful fund raising Activities
• Succeeding or losing a Grant: Mastering the politics of fund raising in Africa
• Effective networking among Development organizations as a tool for fund raising
• Work Plan Development
• Budget Development
• Introduction to Monitoring and Evaluation

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To register, kindly fill the Seminar Registration Form and send it to us through:

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TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF PAYMENT

1. Fees Payment - All fees are payable strictly in advance 2 working days before the course starting date.
2. Cancellation Fee - Cancellation of any participant 5 working days before the start day of a course will incur a 20% cancellation fee.
   We regret that no cancellations will be accepted within 2 working days of a course, but substitutions may be made.

COURSE INFORMATION

Scheduled Dates: 05 – 16 Feb '2024 | 06 – 17 May '2024 | 05 – 16 Aug '2024 | 04 – 15 Nov '2024

Duration: 2 Weeks

Customized dates and one-on-one sessions can be organized.

Preamble

This 2 weeks workshop provides an excellent foundation to Project Management, Monitoring and Evaluation and a fast track to understanding the roles and processes that ensure Project success.

Target Groups

Business, Technical professionals and Administration staff who are required to understand the principles of project management, Project team members, Project accountants, Project managers and coordinators and Project officers active In public and private projects.

Course Outline

Monitoring and Evaluation: Basic Concepts and Definitions
• Introduction to M & E
• The Need for Monitoring and Evaluation
• Project Monitoring
• Project Evaluation
• Relationship between Monitoring and Evaluation

Monitoring and Evaluation as an Integral Component of the Project Planning and Implementation Process
• The Logical Framework Approach to Project Design, Implementation and Evaluation
• Link between the Logical Frame and Monitoring and Evaluation

Evaluation Types and Models
• Overview of Types of Evaluations
• Overview of Summative Evaluation Models
• Baseline Survey and Data
• Review of Key Outcome and Impact Evaluation Indicators

Monitoring and Evaluation Methods and Tools
• Review of Main Methods and Tools
• Selecting Monitoring and Evaluation Methods

Monitoring and Evaluation Planning, Design and Implementation
• Planning a Monitoring System
• Planning an Evaluation

Data Analysis and Report Writing
• Analyzing Data
• Development of an Evaluation Report
• Use of Monitoring and Evaluation Results

REGISTRATION

To register, kindly fill the Seminar Registration Form and send it to us through:

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TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF PAYMENT

1. Fees Payment - All fees are payable strictly in advance 2 working days before the course starting date.
2. Cancellation Fee - Cancellation of any participant 5 working days before the start day of a course will incur a 20% cancellation fee.
   We regret that no cancellations will be accepted within 2 working days of a course, but substitutions may be made.