Project Management Essentials

Contents of the Training

• Sharpening the project brief: purpose, objectives, deliverables, scope, out of scope, and measurable success criteria.
• Clarifying roles and responsibilities: sponsor, project manager, team, decision-making, and key interfaces.
• Structuring stakeholders and requirements: making expectations, priorities, and potential trade-offs visible.
• Building the project structure: work packages, milestones, dependencies, and critical handovers.
• Planning timelines and resources: realistic commitments, capacity constraints, contingencies, and priorities.

• Creating a clear project status: making progress, open issues, deviations, and upcoming decisions transparent at a glance.
• Risk and issue management: prioritizing risks, defining actions, assigning ownership, and using early warning indicators.
• Change and scope management: assessing new requirements and making their impact on timelines, resources, and costs visible.
• Stakeholder communication: clear updates, efficient meetings, expectation management, and clear decisions.
• Escalation and competing priorities: defining escalation criteria, preparing decisions, and keeping the project moving.
• Project closeout: systematically securing handovers, outstanding actions, and lessons learned.

Methods

Interactive training, short expert input, practical exercises, reflection, and facilitated exchange. Participants work with real examples from their project environment and apply the content directly to their own practice.