Project planning masterclass
In this project planning masterclass presented by Piet Beukman, you'll learn a structured and logical way to plan your next project. This course is aimed at those of you experienced with project management, through to seasoned practitioners.
Description
Getting the project plan right goes a very long way towards making accurate estimates, preventing scope creep, overruns and bow-outs and also help to set a sound baseline against which the execution of the project can be measured and controlled.
This masterclass will introduce a structured and logical way to plan a project for those experienced with project management as well as to seasoned practitioners.
The key tasks of the project manager, from defining requirements, scoping the work, determining project activities to defining required resources are dealt with by using progressive definition process.
This Course is aimed at Council engineers, development engineers, consulting engineers, contractors, product or software developers, manufacturing, and also procurement officials in client organisations, whether public or private sector.
Presenter information
Piet Beukman has a passion for developing engineers into capable professional leaders that can deal with their technical, as well as their business tasks, with equal capability.
Piet is the former Director of the Engineering Management Programme at the University of Canterbury and is now self-employed as a coach, mentor, consultant and educator. An accomplished “pracademic”, he has over 45 years of experience in the aerospace, military, marine engineering, venture capital, commercialisation and consulting industries to offer. He also has hands-on experience of managing complex engineering projects.
He is influential in developing NZ best practice methods for the effective execution of engineering activities. He is highly regarded in New Zealand and internationally as a practitioner with a sound track record of achievement for using a practical, but rigorous, approach.
Piet has presented numerous webinars and short courses for local and international organisations including consulting firms, contractors, technology companies, district and city councils, electricity, infrastructure organisations and government departments. Piet also teaches papers in the University of Otago MBA programme.