2-Pre Course Assignment.doc

PRE-COURSE ASSIGNMENT
Introduction
You have been selected to attend RA Project Management training based on PwC’s Programme and Project Management (PPM) methodology from 15-19 July 2002.
This brief contains details of the work you need to do BEFORE attending the course.
The deliverables from this pre-course work will be used during the classroom-based section of the course. Therefore, you need to allow yourself time plete the deliverables if you are to take full advantage of your own participation in the course, and if you are to support the learning of the other participants, particularly the team to which you are assigned.
Aims and Objectives
The overall aim of this course is to enable you to understand the principles, skills, tools, and techniques that will enable you to eed in your role as a consultant Project Manager.
As you progress from being a Team Leader to a Project Manager, you will need to manage all the 7 Keys of Project Management, not just a selection of them. You will take on increasing responsibility for the client relationship and the RA’s profitability for the assignment. You will have to take a more thorough view of risk and scope management. You will be dealing with stakeholders who can influence your project in positive and negative ways. You will need to manage plexity – be that in the number of work streams you manage, plexity of the deliverables,