Project Management is a complex and dynamic process that involves various challenges and obstacles. These training sessions are designed to give you “a starter for 10” insight into the Toolbox of a Project Manager. This Toolbox is a framework by which projects are consistently delivered at University of Stirling by the Information Services Programme Management Office Team. These Tools have been tried and tested across the Portfolio, however, can always be improved upon.
Project Management 101, RACI and Project Structure
This session will introduce you to project management. It’ll explain:
- What we mean by a “project”
- Why do project management & how we’re doing it at University of Stirling
- Roles and Responsibilities
- Governance – The Project Board and project assurance
| Date | Time | Sign up |
| Wednesday 8th November | 3:00 – 3:45 | Sign up here |
Project Management: Business Requirements & Process Mapping
This session will give you a brief overview of:
- what business requirements are,
- why we need them and
- how process maps work together with business requirements and,
- how we apply these business requirements and process mapping in our PMO project methodology
| Date | Time | Sign up |
| Wednesday 15th November | 3:00 – 3:45 | Sign up here |
Project Management: Template Documentation
This session will give you a brief overview of:
- What templates are available within the PMO (including methodology and processes)
- How to find the templates within the PMO
- Why do we use templates
- Where to use the templated
- How to use the templates
- Ownership & Responsibility for Templates
| Date | Time | Sign up |
| Wednesday 22nd November | 3:00 – 3:45 | Sign up here |
Project Management: Risks, Actions, Issues & Decisions (RAID)
This session will give you a brief overview of:
- Definition of RAID
- What is a risk?
- What is an Issue?
- How do we manage assumptions?
- What are dependencies?
| Date | Time | Sign up |
| Wednesday 29th November | 3:00 – 3:45 | Sign up here |
Project Management: Closure & Lessons Learned
- Why are Closure & Lessons learned important?
- How do we close a project?
- How do we conduct Lessons learned?
| Date | Time | Sign up |
| Wednesday 6th December | 3:00 – 3:45 | Sign up here |
Project Management: Project Online/Tasks & Resource Planning
This session will give you a brief overview of:
- Show & Tell of MS Project Online (planning, tasks, resources & dashboard)
- Benefits of MS Project Online
- How to resource plan (simple method to more complex)
- Why we need to resource plan
| Date | Time | Sign up |
| Tuesday 12th December | 3:00-3:45 | Sign up here |
Introduction to PowerBI for IS PMO Projects
This session will give an overview and introduction on how to use PowerBI for the IS PMO Projects and best practices on how to visualise data to support KPIs and other data needs.
| Date | Time | Sign up |
| Wednesday 17th January | 3:00 – 3:45 | Sign up here |
Introduction to Benefits delivered by Projects
This session will give an overview and introduction to benefits delivered by Projects, why have them, who is responsible for them and why they are important.
| Date | Time | Sign up |
| Wednesday 24th January | 3:00 – 3:45 | Sign up here |
If you have any questions, please contact the Information Centre.
This looks like a great program of PM training, and I’d love to do it!
However, the weekly time slot (3pm Wednesday) is the one hour of the week I cant do – as it clashes with our project team meeting.
I’ll cross my fingers crossed that you’ll run these again some time!
Thank you for your feedback. We’ve passed your comment on to our Project Management Team 🙂
Are these courses online and is there a space on the 1st session Wed 8th Nov? Many thanks in advance.
You should be able to sign-up now 🙂
Thank you so much for setting these sessions up, exactly what I need at exactly the right time, because my current contract, as Project Coordinator for GOALD in FoSS ends in February and I need to refresh my project management skills for whatever I might choose to do after that. I was a Project and Project Office Manager in a large IT managment consultancy for 6-7 years in the late 1990s/early 2000s, so a few things may have changed!
Will the sessions be recorded as I am unable to attend on 12th December?
Hi Jill, I have contacted the PMO team and they are planning on recording the sessions and they will be available on the PMO sharepoint site. https://stir.sharepoint.com/sites/ProgrammeManagementOfficePMO
Is there a way to book onto all of the PM training in one form to save time filling out each one? Thanks
Hi Caroline, sorry, you need to sign up for each one individually.
I lost the opportunity of doing the 1st session – Project Management 101, RACI and Project Structure
Is there an online version that I can see before the next session?
thanks
Hi Janina, the Project Management team will be creating a page with the training resources and sending out the link to those who attended the training. They have added your name to the list of people to be emailed.