# Advanced Project Management

> Manage complex, high-risk projects with advanced planning, earned value, integrated risk and stakeholder leadership.

- **Provider:** Afriskora Training Solutions
- **Category:** Project & Programme Management
- **Duration:** 5 days
- **Formats:** classroom (cities across Africa), live virtual (Zoom/Teams), in-house for teams
- **Certificate:** Afriskora Certificate of Completion, verifiable online
- **Booking:** request dates and a quote; invoice and EFT payment
- **Web page:** https://afriskora.co.za/courses/project-management/advanced-project-management
- **Request dates:** https://afriskora.co.za/request-training?course=advanced-project-management

## Overview

Experienced project managers eventually face projects with many dependencies, contractors, stakeholders and uncertainties. This course builds advanced capabilities: integrated planning and scheduling, earned value management, quantitative risk analysis, contract and supplier management, hybrid delivery and leadership of large project teams. A complex infrastructure case runs through the week.

## Who should attend

- Experienced project managers
- Programme and portfolio managers
- PMO leads
- Engineers and consultants leading major projects

## Learning outcomes

- Plan and schedule complex projects with critical path and resource levelling
- Control cost and schedule with earned value management
- Quantify and manage risk with Monte Carlo analysis
- Manage contractors, claims and change control
- Lead diverse teams and senior stakeholders through difficult phases

## Course outline

### Day 1: Complex project environments

- Complexity and project success
- Governance and sponsorship
- Predictive, agile and hybrid choices
- Integrated project management plan

### Day 2: Advanced planning and scheduling

- Work breakdown and integrated schedules
- Critical path and critical chain
- Resource levelling
- Schedule compression

### Day 3: Cost control and earned value

- Cost baselines
- Earned value metrics
- Forecasting at completion
- Recovery strategies

### Day 4: Risk and contracts

- Quantitative risk analysis
- Monte Carlo simulation
- FIDIC and NEC contracts
- Change control and claims

### Day 5: Leadership

- Leading large project teams
- Senior stakeholder management
- Troubled project recovery
- Case study presentations