Overview:
The Challenge
Have you ever wondered where project issues come from? Have you ever delivered great technology only to find that the supposed "customer" wants no part of it? Have you ever wondered what to do when asked for an estimate in the face of woefully inadequate information? Have you ever wondered why, if project risk can be positive as well as negative, that you never see opportunity? These are just a few of the intriguing questions answered during this fascinating four day course. .
The Solution
Advanced Project Management for the Experienced Practitioner is an advanced project management course that deals with some of the most wide-spread, persistent and troubling project issues that we face today. This PM course is intended for those who understand standard project management practice and are ready to move to the next level of project performance. Topics include:
- Source of project success and failure – Dealing with the Human Element
- Distinguishing project and business objectives
- Business Value: the hidden success factor
- Managing Stakeholder Expectations
- Organizational Adoption – Dealing with Resistance to Change
- Complete and Correct Requirements
- Winning the Estimation Game
- Rational Management of Baselines
- How to Choose Project Metrics that Make Sense
- Creating Opportunity in Your Projects
- Project Transition: Delivering the Goods
Audience
This course is of value to project managers and team leads who are looking for guidance that is not found in the standard project management curriculum. Also managers of project mangers, functional managers with project responsibility and Project Management Office staff will benefit from this course.
Prerequisites:
This course assumes prior experience as project manager or team lead.
Course duration:
4 days
Course Outline:
Introduction
- Source of project success and failure
- Dealing with the Human Element
- Many views of the project
- Project as investment
- Product lifecycle
- Business Value as a driver of project practice
- Four levels of project success
- Enhanced definition of Project Management
Project Structure
- The Project Environment
- Getting a project off to a good start
- Defining the project investment
- Distinguishing project and business objectives
- Designing a project charter that works
The people side of projects
- Identifying stakeholders
- Managing Stakeholder Expectations
- Organizational Adoption – Ensuring deliverables are used effectively
Advanced project process
- Winning the Estimation Game
- Creating Opportunity in your projects
- Developing complete and correct requirements
- Controlling project change
- How to choose project metrics that Make Sense
- Project Transition: Delivering the Goods
Learning Approach
- A highly experienced instructor will use interactive lecture format, numerous hands-on exercises, team activities, group discussions, individual discovery and other techniques to drive home the essential points of this material.
- You have the option of using your own, ongoing project as the focus of class exercises. As a result, not only do you gain experience with the tools, but you also learn more about your project.
- We will build on your prior experience in this topic, while providing you with numerous advanced tools and techniques that you can put to use as soon as you get home.
- You will receive a Participant Guide which will help you follow the material, take notes and retain what you learned so that you can apply it on your job.
Why should I take this course?
- The exercises in this course will give you the hands on experience you need to put the tools presented to immediate use.
- Experienced project managers will obtain insights that should help them solve common and persistent problems.
- All participants take home a set of tools and techniques to help them deal with all aspects of project planning and execution.
- Take this course and learn how to avoid the problems that project managers most often encounter.
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