A transformational enhancement of your ability to participate in and lead projects in petroleum exploration and field development.

What will you learn?

On completion of this course, participants are expected to be able to:

•  Work effectively as project team members in small projects 
•  Assess the strengths and weaknesses of your own, and your organisation's project working capability 
• Make accurate in-depth project feasibility and scope analysis
•  Assess and discern between projects to achieve maximum organisational value and minimise risk
•  Construct the key elements of project plans, including project definition, objectives, budgets and time schedules
•  Break a project down into manageable parts and processes, from initial concept right through to final handover
•  Map a project's lifecycle
•  Describe the most effective management structures for the maintenance of project control
•  Monitor a project's progress and success
•  Lead and manage project teams

Who should participate?

All oil and gas personnel who work in projects, including but not limited to project managers.

Course content

The course is based on the Simprentis ProjektSim, where participants are immersed in simulated real-world scenarios where they learn and practice new knowledge and skills hands-on in a dynamic, collaborative environment. Participants are grouped in project teams and each team plans, executes, evaluates, and gets feed-back on their virtual projects in ProjektSim. Part theoretical, part practical, the course provides you with the theoretical project management foundation and enables you to tryout the theory and experience all the details of a project where everything does not go according to plan.

The in-simulation objective is to deliver everything on time and on budget, and you collaborate with your team mates and compete against the other teams.

Where most project courses are focused on providing participants with planning tools, this course enables you to see and feel how things work in "real life" – and enables you to reflect on how projects should and should not be planned and executed. The theoretical part is based on the Project Management Institute's body of knowledge, and topics covered include:
 

• Project characteristics
• The project process
• Goals and objectives, success criteria
• Project tools, planning, milestones
• Budget and time estimates
• Gantt charts
• Risk management
• Project document
• Implement project
• Measuring progress, staying on track
• Change management
• Communication and collaboration
• Commitment
• Ending the project