Advanced Monitoring and Evaluation of Projects

The Monitoring and Evaluation of Projects Training Course is essential for professionals responsible for ensuring that projects deliver on time, within scope, and on budget. Whether managing small-scale initiatives or complex programs, effective monitoring and evaluation play a critical role in tracking progress, identifying risks, and ensuring successful outcomes. This comprehensive course focuses on equipping participants with the tools, techniques, and soft skills needed to assess performance and make informed decisions throughout the project lifecycle.

Participants will learn to design and implement robust monitoring systems, define key performance indicators (KPIs), and apply evaluation frameworks that align with strategic objectives. The course also explores earned value analysis, dashboard reporting, risk-adjusted planning, and stakeholder communication. Practical exercises reinforce how to integrate control mechanisms with leadership, negotiation, and influence skills to manage project teams and meet expectations.

This Monitoring and Evaluation of Projects training course will highlight:

• What is project success and failure
• Understanding governance mechanisms to support Initiation, planning, execution, and closure
• Definition of key performance indicators, metrics and setting up reporting mechanisms
• Tried and tested professional planning techniques to set expectations of controlling project scope, schedule, costs, uncertainty, communication and quality
• Appropriate project execution, control methods to assist project managers in their reporting
• Exploring soft skills to complement and lead planning techniques and control expectations

By the end of this training course, participants will be able to:

• Understand how projects originate and get started
• Agree key performance indicators and success criteria and understand why they are necessary
• Learn the processes, tools and techniques of project planning with a risk management focus
• Lead, Influence and negotiate with people to deliver what they promise and make projects successful
• Understand project team members and enable project teams to be highly productive
• Build effective dashboards with the knowledge of scorecards to report project performance?
• Measure, forecast, present status, and control project performance by employing earned value techniques

This Anderson training course will be of great value to anyone managing or involved in projects; anyone wanting to get involved in projects, regardless of their professional background or industry

This Anderson training course is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:

• Project Managers / Team Leaders
• Project Technical / Workstream Leaders
• PMO staff
• Project Sponsors / Owners
• Business Functional Management or personnel

This Anderson training course will utilise a variety of proven adult learning techniques to ensure maximum understanding, comprehension and retention of the information presented. Over five days, this training course is highly interactive and practical. It uses a wide variety of concepts and models to explore effective leadership in projects. Case studies, diagnostic self-assessment questionnaires, role-playing activities and group exercises to give delegates the opportunity to discover, practice and consolidate their learning. Delegates will have the opportunity to assess and discuss the application of the content to their own project and to devise their own personal developmental plan for each aspect of the course.