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Be able to define the components, stages and lifecycle of a project - Indicative Content - Project activity vs operational activity
- Stage of a typical project
- Project management vs programme management
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- 1.1 - Define the stages and lifecycle of a project
- 1.2 - Identify the specific roles and responsibilities of managing a project
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Be able to specify and justify a performance improvement project - Indicative Content - Selecting areas for investigation
- Setting terms of reference – aims, objectives, scope.
- Establishing success criteria
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- 2.1 - Develop suggestions for performance improvement projects from own work experience
- 2.2 - Explain a structured framework for establishing terms of reference for a performance improvement project
- 2.3 - Determine success criteria for a proposed performance improvement project
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Understand how to develop a project plan - Indicative Content - Elements of a project plan and schedule
- Gantt charts
- Work breakdown structures
- Resource allocation
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- 3.1 - Explain the process of planning and scheduling a simple performance improvement project based on defined terms of reference
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Be able to identify and mitigate risks within a project - Indicative Content
- Risks associated with projects
- Identifying, assessing sand minimizing risks
- Mitigating risks
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- 4.1 - Explain the process of identifying potential risks and proposing actions to reduce or mitigate those risks
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Be able to construct a monitoring and review strategy - Indicative Content
- Project control - the need for regular review
- Monitoring progress
- Control actions
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- 5.1 - Construct a monitoring and review process
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Be able to make and justify recommendations that achieve the project aim - Indicative Content
- Creating alternative scenarios
- Making the case for change
- Selling the proposals
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- 6.1 - Propose a list of potential actions following an investigative phase to improve the performance of the area under review
- 6.2 - Prioritise actions based on their contribution to the successful completion of the project
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Be able to prepare a project report and associated presentation - Indicative Content
- Management report writing
- Presenting findings and recommendations
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- 7.1 - Produce a framework of a report for a management team summarising project activity and making recommendations for change
- 7.2 - Prepare a format for a complementary presentation to key stakeholders of the project
- 7.3 - Justify the framework and content when reporting at the end of a project
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