Project Management Fundamentals

Project Fundamentals: 2 Days:

• To be delivered in 2 x 1 day in person/tutor led training
• Half day hold to account session and wrap up/celebrate success event
• Additional 4 hrs support per delegate
• Bespoke focus on the businesses Continuous Improvement projects to raise relevance and learning uptake

The Golden Triangle & Business Needs

This course will introduce learners to the golden triangle (also known as the triple constraint or project management triangle), a foundational model in project management.

The programme will draw clear connections between time, cost, and quality and demonstrate how these elements interact to shape and define project scope:

• Time: The schedule for project delivery. Discuss estimating, critical path, and scheduling impact.
• Cost: The budget – both financial and resource input – required to achieve objectives.
• Quality: The standards the project output must meet to be considered fit for purpose.
• Scope: The totality of deliverables, features, and requirements (the “what” of the project).

The course will bring to the learner’s attention the change to one constraint will necessarily affect the others, and how scope is the “body” that emerges at the intersection of time, cost, and quality trade-offs. Throughout the programme, we will use real-world examples and interactive scenarios illustrating how business priorities and resource availability drive difficult project decisions.