Managing Smaller Projects
Learn how to confidently plan and deliver smaller projects as part of your corporate role. This practical course shows you how to apply simple project management techniques to organise work, manage risks, and deliver successful outcomes.
In this course, you will learn how to:
- Use a clear, easy-to-follow project lifecycle for small projects
- Define scope, objectives and success criteria effectively
- Identify key stakeholders and manage communication with confidence
- Estimate tasks, create simple plans and track project progress
- Anticipate and manage risks, issues and project changes
- Evaluate success and capture lessons for future projects
Who is this course for?
Professionals who manage small or informal projects alongside their day job. Ideal for team leaders, coordinators and corporate staff who need practical project skills without full project management training.
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Course Outline
Course overview
Duration: 1 day (6.5 hours)
This workshop is for those people who want to learn how to better apply project management techniques to manage small projects as part of their normal role.
When you need to implement a number of tasks or deliver a small project from start to end, this course looks at the benefits of managing them as a project. The workshop follows a project lifecycle and how to apply best practice throughout.
This ‘hands on’ session will show you everything you need to know in order to run or contribute to a successful small project.
Objectives
By the end of the course you will be able to:
- Confidently use typical project management language and terminology
- Use a project lifecycle from start to finish to make it more straight forward and easily understood
- Identify the key stakeholders on the project
- Develop a robust project brief, including scope and measurable objectives
- Use a range of approaches for estimating task durations
- Proactively identify and manage your risks to improve the likelihood of success
- Develop effective project tracking processes
- Evaluate project performance and apply key learning for the future
Content
Project Management Basics
- When could we apply project management techniques
- The benefits good project management techniques bring
- The project lifecycle
- Project roles
- Avoiding the common pitfalls
Getting started
- Developing the project brief
- Stakeholder analysis
- Clear objective setting
- Defining the success criteria
Creating a plan
- Using work breakdown structures to identify tasks
- Estimating techniques
- Network diagrams
- Critical path analysis
- An introduction to gantt charts
Executing the plan
- Overview of risk management
- How to handle change
- Dealing with problems and issues
- Communicating progress
Agreeing to successful outcomes
- Activities needed for handover and project closure
- Measuring project success
- Measuring the project benefits
- Capturing the experience
- Lessons learnt
Why Choose Underscore for Project Management Training?
Underscore Group delivers practical, instructor-led project management training that helps people plan, lead and deliver projects with confidence. Based in Sussex and supporting organisations across the UK, we focus on real-world tools and approaches that make project delivery clearer, more structured and more achievable for teams at all levels.
Every session is tailored to your organisation’s way of working, ensuring the methods and templates translate directly into day-to-day delivery. Our project management programmes are trusted by organisations across finance, aviation, healthcare, construction and professional services, helping teams in corporate environments improve planning discipline, strengthen stakeholder engagement and deliver successful outcomes more consistently.
- Trusted by leading UK organisations
- Expert trainers with real business experience
- Small-group sessions (6–8 people)
- Practical, hands-on learning approach
- Virtual & onsite delivery across the UK
- Six months of post-course support
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