Content:

• General project conditions
• Project goals / creative methods for identifying project goals and priorities
• Project planning
• Activity planning
• Cost/time/resource planning
• Phase models
• Risk management

Objectives:

At the end of the course, the participants:

• Know the principles of project management and are able to make use of them in real-world case studies.
• Have profound knowledge about project phases, principles of project planning, fundamental elements such as project charter & scope definitions, descriptions of project goals, activity planning, milestones, project-structure plans, agenda and cost planning and risk management. Further, they know principle elements of project implementation, crisis management, escalation and, last but not least, project-termination activities.
• Understand and are able to adopt the fundamentals of planning as well as the subjective factors which are relevant in a project. This includes topics such as communication, group processes, teambuilding, leadership, creative solution methods and risk-assessment methods.