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A highly interactive training course on

Advanced Monitoring and Evaluation of Projects

Delivering Confident Performance Levels for your Projects
Coventry Academy - Advanced Monitoring and Evaluation of Projects
5
Days

Course Schedules

 Dubai
 07-11 Apr 2025
 $5,950
 London
 11-15 Aug 2025
 $5,950

Training course overview

Advanced Monitoring and Evaluation of Projects: This training course is designed for project managers seeking to enhance their ability to deliver projects on time, within budget, and to quality standards. Whether your project is small or large, effective project control is essential to prevent delays and financial losses.

Participants will learn to establish robust project control systems that monitor and evaluate progress while also developing critical soft skills for leading, influencing, and negotiating. Key topics include:

  • Defining project success and failure.
  • Understanding governance mechanisms for effective initiation, planning, execution, and closure.
  • Identifying key performance indicators (KPIs) and setting up efficient reporting mechanisms.
  • Employing proven planning techniques to manage project scope, schedule, costs, risks, communication, and quality.
  • Utilizing appropriate control methods to aid in project reporting.
  • Exploring essential soft skills to complement technical planning and control strategies.

What are the goals?

By the end of this training course, participants will be able to:

  • Understand how projects originate and get started
  • Agree key performance indicators and success criteria and understand why they are necessary
  • Learn the processes, tools and techniques of project planning with a risk management focus
  • Lead, Influence and negotiate with people to deliver what they promise and make projects successful
  • Understand project team members and enable project teams to be highly productive
  • Build effective dashboards with the knowledge of scorecards to report project performance?
  • Measure, forecast, present status, and control project performance by employing earned value techniques

 

Who is this training course for?

This Coventry Academy training course will be of great value to anyone managing or involved in projects; anyone wanting to get involved in projects, regardless of their professional background or industry

This Coventry Academy training course is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:

  • Project Managers / Team Leaders
  • Project Technical / Workstream Leaders
  • PMO staff
  • Project Sponsors / Owners
  • Business Functional Management or personnel

How will this training course be presented?

This Coventry Academy training course will utilise a variety of proven adult learning techniques to ensure maximum understanding, comprehension and retention of the information presented. Over five days, this training course is highly interactive and practical. It uses a wide variety of concepts and models to explore effective leadership in projects. Case studies, diagnostic self-assessment questionnaires, role-playing activities and group exercises to give delegates the opportunity to discover, practice and consolidate their learning. Delegates will have the opportunity to assess and discuss the application of the content to their own project and to devise their own personal developmental plan for each aspect of the course.

Course Outline

Day One: Project Basics
  • Organisation Vision, Mission & Strategy
  • Characteristics of projects
  • How project success is measured
  • Project context and the environment
  • Initiation
  • Defining project scope
Day Two: Planning Projects with Execution, Monitoring and Control in Mind
  • What is project planning?
  • What work has to be done?
  • In what order will the work be done?
  • How long will work take?
  • Who do we need to undertake the work, including acceleration techniques
  • What tools can we use to communicate our plans?
Day Three: Risk Management
  • How much will the project cost?
  • Risk Management processes, tools and techniques
  • Designing the monitoring and control system using S curves
  • Introducing a change control system
  • The value of Audits
  • Baselining
Day Four: Monitoring and Control, Evaluation, Reporting & Hand-over
  • Setting up Project Control Systems
  • Selecting Appropriate Key Performance Indicators
  • Project execution
  • Monitoring Performance through Earned Value Management
  • Reviewing what has been achieved and reporting progress
  • Controlling Project Handover to Operations
Day Five: Looking After and Leading the Team
  • Project people selection, team building and empowerment
  • Leadership vs management
  • Negotiating and delegating with confidence
  • Meetings and safe communication with stakeholders
  • Conflict handling
  • Project closure
  • Lessons learned

The certificate

  • Coventry Academy Certificate of Attendance will be provided to delegates who attend and complete the course

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