Annulée : English speakers: How to manage a project in a company

This is an introduction to the type of Project Management practised in companies, which will cover concepts of Project and of project team, participants, tools, principles and Project Development stages.

Module 1: Project definition with presentation of different Project types; why set up a project? what for?
Why are company projects set up? With whom? The different Project stages and the demands of a project. The overview of Project Management including its creation in a commercial environment (Demand/Constraints/Resources), the client, the concepts linked to Project Management (tasks, deliverables, milestones). The steering and leading of the project and, finally, the golden rules which increase the chances of success for Project Management.

Module 2: Initiation, roles and responsibilities.
Phase 1: "DEFINE, STRUCTURE, RISK-ASSESS AND DECIDE".
Structuring a project (drafting a Project Terms of Reference)
Identifying the stakeholders, participants and their responsibilities; organising a Project Team with its control mechanisms: Steering Group and Project Management Committee.

Module 3: Project Development (organising, establishing and launching a project)
Phase 2: setting up a Project Team (framing the Terms of Reference, "ToR")
Phase 3: documenting the project (Project Development Plan, "PDP")
Project example: establishing a Start-Up
Phases 4 and 5: preparing and developing a project (steering andsteering tools, risk assessment and management, change management; human and material resources, planning; conflict management and negotiations; acquisition/purchase strategy).
Phase 6: Ensuring successful outcomes (planning; costs; quality control; activity; communication), financial viability of a project (CF, VAN, TRI, Cash Flow, NPV, Discounted Cashflow, Payback)
Phase 7: Roll-out/implementation (sign-off; communication; training).

Module 4: Project completion and conclusions
Phase 8: Completing a project (releasing resources; ownership hand-over; feedback; the final report).

Exercices: two exercises are suggested:
Exercise 1 - "The Wonderful Library" Project: the case of a university library which, following the receipt of a 30,000 book donation, must expand, review its organisation, and possibly digitise.
Or
Exercise 2 - Project for a Pharmaceuticals Market Start Up (the commercialisation of a "hospital prescription drug" (Curazol) to act as an antidote to a lethal alcohol poisoning attack due to a massive ingestion of ethanol or adulterated alcohol, such as methanol).
For each of these two themes, four exercises are suggested:
- Drafting a ToR
- Writing a plan
- Feasibility plan
- Defining human resouce requirements

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