Projects are often large investments with social, environmental and economic impacts to a variety of stakeholders and systems. On most engineering projects, scope, cost, and time pressures are almost inevitable. At any stage of a project, tools to plan, schedule and maintain control are essential for managing these challenges and delivering on time and on budget. In this introductory course, you'll learn how to:
- plan with a high level of strategic thinking that considers stakeholder expectations and risk
- model the plan with a schedule, including required resources and data structures for reporting
- control your projects with a continual performance feedback loop.
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Learning Outcomes
- Understand the difference between project planning, project control and scheduling.
- Understand how project planning, risk management and control practices to improve project outcomes.
- Apply project controls to reduce project risk and overcome human factors such as ‘bias’'.
- Establish a project baseline and use it to measure performance.
- Understand the performance feedback cycle—Plan, Do, Check, Act—for feedback and continuous improvement.
- How to control changes to the project baseline
Is this course for you?
This course is well suited for professionals with 1-5 years of experience in project management, commercial management, project planning, risk management, cost or schedule performance management.
It is also for engineers who would like to improve their knowledge with a refresher on project change management processes. Roles include:
- project managers
- project engineers
- contract managers
- contract engineers
- procurement engineers
- project controls professionals (cost, schedule, risk)
- project coordinators
- PMO team members
- all engineers involved in either feasibility, Design, development, procurement, construction, test, commissioning, hand over or decommissioning
The course is also suitable for government professionals, owners, contractors and consultants.
There are no prerequisites for this course. However, you should have some understanding of project management, planning and scheduling.
Topics we'll cover
- Introduction to projects
- Project risk management and decision making
- Project communication
- Establishing the project baseline
- The performance feedback cycle
- Project baseline change management
Towards chartered
Take this course to build skills and knowledge in the following Engineers Australia Chartered status competencies*:
5. Engage with the relevant community and stakeholders
6. Identify, assess and manage risks
7. Meet legal and regulatory requirements
8. Communication
9. Performance
12. Advanced engineering knowledge
13. Local engineering knowledge
16. Evaluation
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*Completing this course does not automatically guarantee you a competency. However, you will gain the base knowledge you need to develop these specific Chartered competencies.
Laurie Bowman is a Chartered Engineer with more than 30 years’ of experience in complex projects and change initiatives internationally. He is passionate about generating value for stakeholders through effective project planning, risk management and assurance. He is a trainer and workshop facilitator with Synchrony Projects, where his focus is on working with clients to uplift capability in project planning and risk management for more successful and sustainable projects.
Well run course. Laurie was easy to deal with and an engaging facilitator. Discussions on practical experience and planning section were most valuable.
Valuable content that complemented our planning techniques.
Good range of topics covered and a good refresher. I would recommend a colleague to attend.
