Al-Watan Newspaper, Qatar Economic Section

Course on Project Management Organized by Access Centre Qatar

Tuesday, May 7, 2013 Issue No. (2405)

Access Centre Qatar has organized for five days a Project Management course which has been attended by a number of employees of "Mowasalat" company.
The course has included several lectures that has focused on negotiation, its objectives, negotiable issues, guidelines for successful negotiations and how to prepare for them, as well as the process, stages, strategies and techniques of successful negotiations. The course has also included lectures on how to manage projects through the identification and formulation of project tasks, determination of the human and financial resources, the time required for accomplishing tasks in accuracy exceeding 90%. This is in addition to scheduling resources for each task, calculating time and total cost of the project The course also tackles how to use Earned Value Management (EVM) to determine the project status and its future results, specifying if the project does not fulfil the timetable or the financial schedule, how to apply corrective actions, communicating with the Administration and other stakeholders regarding the project status and designing and reading the Gantt chart. Moreover, It has also offered training to participants in how to conduct meetings efficiently and achieve results of risk analysis, planning and follow-up project performance as well as issuance of periodic reports on the project status.
Education and Development Director of "Mowasalat" company said, "This course comes in the framework of the company's efforts to train and qualify its staff in order to improve their performance and meet the company's expansion requirements ," indicating that ""The Mowasalat" company pays constant attention to the process of training and knowledge of any technical and administrative developments
On his part, Tariq al-Halees, executive director of 'Access Centre Qatar', stated that, "The course has been part of the services offered by Access Centre, which comply with the requirements of Qatari companies of public and private establishments, in order to enhance performance and to be in accord with the country's vision in connection with building strong establishments and companies under Qatar's considerable economic advancement and worldwide transformations.
Al-Halees also expressed that 'Access Centre Qatar', which has extensive experience in areas of training and raising efficiency in response to all country authorities' requirements in both public and private sectors with respect to the areas of training, capacity-building and human skills, besides professional translation and organizing conferences as well as workshops.