Project Management

The ability to deliver on time, to budget and within scope and quality parameters is critical to all businesses. This has never been more important than in the current difficult trading conditions; no business can afford to lose customers. Project management is the discipline which provides organisations which this capability.

To ensure the ability to deliver it is necessary that all staff members who are involved in project work have project management skills – and the confidence to use those skills.

The enhancement of project management capability can improve business performance ‘at the sharp end’, with regard to customer delivery. It can also improve performance of those critical ‘back office’ projects that drive business efficiency and cost containment.

Our approach to project management is distinctive in a number of important ways:

Bywater training runs a course - Project Management Fundamentals - which focuses on the basics of project management. It covers to ‘softer’ side of people development and team building as well as those more technical skills of scheduling, budgeting, risk appraisal and resource allocation.

The world of the project management professional can seem a bewildering one with multiple institutes (PMI, APM) and methods (eg Prince2). Our approach is to draw on the best aspects of all sources and ensure candidates leave the training with a good understanding of project management, not of one method or approach only.

Project Processes

Project skills covered in our training include:

  • Project initiation documentation
  • Activity schedule development
  • Budgeting
  • Resource identification and scheduling
  • Stakeholder identification and communications
  • Keeping the project on track
  • Risk, quality and issue management.

In addition to running training courses Bywater can also offer;

  • Consultancy on developing organisational project management capability;
    • Staff mentoring
    • Developing a Project Management Office
    • Developing project toolkits and collaboration spaces.
  • Project ‘in-flight reviews’
  • Getting projects back on track.

If you would like to find out more about how we can help you optimise value from project management and implementation please contact sales@bywatertraining.co.uk.