Overview:
The Challenge
Project Success is everyone's business. The Sponsor who requests the project, the project manager who directs it and the customers who will receive the benefit all want the project to be successful. But what is success? Does everyone define it in the same way? Who is responsible for defining project success? If the definition of project success is not clear, how do we evaluate the project?
The Solution
This advanced project management workshop examines some age-old questions in project management and comes up with some surprising answers. What is project success? Who is responsible? How do we measure it? When? Exactly what are the Sponsor and Project Manager accountable for? Failure to deal with questions like this at the start of a project can create significant difficulties after the project's conclusion. Join us in an in-depth look at this fascinating subject and take away insights on how to define and measure success in your own projects.
Audience:
This advanced PM workshop is important to executives and project staff alike. Executives and Functional Managers, Project Managers, Program Managers and Project Management Office (PMO) staff discover that there are many layers of project success, and all must be defined and measured if the enterprise is to fully recognize the full benefit it has received from its project investments.
Course duration:
Half day
Learning Objectives :
- Why Project Success is more than On Time and Within Budget
- The many perspectives on project success that should be considered
- Advantages of defining Project Success in the Project Charter
- Happy Customer: Role of stakeholders in determining project outcome
- Importance of meeting stakeholder expectations
- The hidden project: Organizational Adoption
- Linking project success to project objectives
- Linking business success to business objectives
- Importance of measuring Business Value after project completion
- Assigning project accountability to project manager and Sponsor
- Implications for management of projects
- Implications for the role of project manager
Learning Approach:
- A highly experienced instructor will use an interactive lecture format, group discussions and other techniques 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 projects.
- 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?:
- Measuring Project Success presents unique insights into the various ways in which project stakeholders define and measure project success. Attendees should be able to make immediate use of the best practice and practical steps presented in this workshop.
- Take this advanced workshop and learn what you can do to ensure that your projects will meet the success criteria of the many people involved in your project.
- Learn what you can do to get recognition for the good work you and your team have accomplished.
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