What have we learned

The workshop was highly participative and was based on  the experiences that participants brought to the workshop. The following topics were addressed: 

• Defining business projects and non-project work
• Frameworks for business projects
• Setting up a typical business project (case study)
• Stakeholder management and engagement
• Scoping projects and defining the business case
• Scheduling, costing and estimating
• Risk and benefit management
• Human resource management
• Management and implementation of change

How participants benefited

At the end of the workshop, participants left with:

• A clear understanding of the type of work that should be managed as a project
• A working knowledge of how to plan, manage and monitor a business project
• An appreciation of project risk management and benefit management
• Increased confidence in their project planning and project leadership abilities

Who attended

The course has been designed for managers and staff in government and non-governmental organizations who are given the responsibility for planning and managing projects.

Faculty

Brendan McCarron, BSc, MBA, MInstRE

Brendan is an experienced trainer and management consultant with clients in the public and private sector across Europe.

His recent assignments include: designing and running project leadership workshops for Senior Civil Service Senior Responsible Officers (SRO’s) and program leaders in the UK civil service and providing extensive program and project management support in housing, social care, finance and core business areas for number of local governments in the UK. In the private sector he has recently worked for an engineering client on an international ERP implementation project and he ran Rolls Royce plc’s Project Sponsorship training between 2003 and 2008.

He also designed and runs CIPFA’s Chief Financial Officer Leadership Academies and similar academies for a range of private sector clients in financial services.