Enhancing Project Performance

As a project manager, you're responsible for delivering a successful project. To be a successful project manager, your results are measured on more than time, cost and budget requirements. You must also be an effective communicator and know how to assess risks at all stages of a project's lifecycle.

Enhance your experience as a project manager through this self-paced course. Learn strategies to address common challenges that can affect the success of a project, such as:

• monitoring and controlling a project
• identifying the most effective tools and techniques
• procurement and supply chain planning
• communicating with stakeholders
• assessing and managing risk

Using a mix of case studies and practical tasks, you'll learn how to define success measures at the start of a project, and use tracking tools and techniques to identify issues early. You'll also learn how to reduce the likelihood of delays by selecting tools and methods that best suit your project and guide it to successful completion.

By the end of this course, you'll be better equipped to manage all aspects of your project's performance. Your enhanced project management mindset will support greater quality across the lifecycle of your projects.

Learning outcomes

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

• Define project success and identify means of measuring progress and outcomes
• Define contemporary Project Management tools and frameworks to enhance and improve outcomes
• Improve relationships with project team members, key stakeholders, contractors, and suppliers
• Identify appropriate tools and techniques to effectively monitor and control the project against the triple constraint
• Develop effective procurement plans and management processes
• Determine relevant risk management tools and techniques for projects to improve project success
• Determine and implement effective change management processes throughout the project lifecycle

Intended Audience

This course suits project managers and project engineers with two to five years' experience.

Participants should have an existing knowledge of project management principles and practices.

Course format

This course is delivered through EEA Online, our digital learning platform.

You'll learn using a mix of practical case studies, quizzes and reading, audio and video materials. You'll also apply your knowledge in practice with a variety of assessment tasks and learning checks.

It will take approximately eight hours to complete. As it is self-paced, you can start anytime and save your progress as you finish each module.

Once you register for the course, you have 90 days to complete it.

Presenter information

Dr Ross Yates PhD is an experienced, certified program and project management practitioner. He is a postgraduate university lecturer, an active researcher, and workplace trainer and assessor in project management practice.

Ross specialises in PRINCE2, PMBOK and Agile methods. His specialisation extends to business systems and processes, quality practice, and change management. He has extensive experience delivering projects in the mining, higher education, health care and not-for-profit sectors.

Ross works closely with engineers across a range of fields as an educator and assessor of competence.