Overview:
The Challenge
Transition is that period of time that spans implementation of a project's deliverables and initial use of those deliverables by the customer. The amount of Business Value that a project delivers depends critically on how well the work of Transition is carried out. Yet, in today's project management practice, this aspect of the project is not always well planned and executed. In fact, this is just the place where shortcuts may be taken when time and money run short, with the result that generation of Business Value is severely impaired.
The Solution
This advanced project management workshop focuses on the steps necessary to prepare for and execute the work of Transition. The material includes definition of the project processes involved, discussion of common roadblocks and success factors, and review of the benefits of formally managing Project Transition. Participants leave with a new set of concepts and tools that can be applied to any project.
Audience:
This advanced PM workshop will be of value to project team members, project and program managers, functional managers with project responsibility, managers and supervisors responsible for maintaining deliverables or for integrating them into ongoing operations, and anyone concerned with ensuring that projects deliver the intended Business Value.
Course duration:
Half day
Learning Objectives :
- The product lifecycle and Total Cost of Ownership
- Business Value and ROI
- Roadblocks to Business Value
- The importance of planning for Business Value
- Focus on Organizational Adoption
- How roles and responsibilities change at the end of the project
- Aspects of Transition in a typical IT project
- Transition project phases
- How to prepare for Transition
- How to prepare stakeholders to receive the product
- How to effectively execute product delivery
- How to maximize the project's Business Value
- What to report to management when it's all done
Learning Approach:
- A highly experienced instructor will use interactive lecture format, numerous exercises and group discussions to drive home the essential points of this material
- We will build on your prior experience in this topic, while providing you with a structure and vocabulary to use in future organizational change engagements.
- If you have modest project management knowledge, you will find that the clarity of the material and direct presentation style of the instructor will make the subject matter easy to understand.
- You will receive a Student 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 workshop?:
- This advanced workshop explains how to effectively prepare for the transition from project to ongoing operations.
- Attendees take home a whole new set of best practice, tools and techniques that can make them more effective in their work.
- Project Teams actively engaged in a project can effectively use this workshop to help them do the planning for Transition in their project.
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