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
- Defining and measuring project success
Audience:
This advanced PM course will be 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 program of training assumes experience in the role of project manager. It is not required that attendees complete any specific project project management course in advance of the program, but completion of Effective Project Management or Project Management for Technical Professionals is helpful
Course duration:
2 - 4 days
Course Includes:
- PMP® certified instruction
- Student Guide
- Participation Certificate
- 12 - 24 PDUs
Course Outline:
Introduction
- Sources of project success
- Human Factors at work
- Why people are the source of project success and failure
- Critical role of the Project Manager
- Leveraging the power of each project role
- How to survive in a dysfunctional organizational culture
Project Initiation
- Human Factors approach to defining a project
- Distinguishing project objectives from Business Value
- Surviving the lunacy of project estimation
- Managing expectations
- The Project Charter – essential tool for gaining consensus
Project Planning
- Objectives, Best Practice and Roles
- A Human Factors view of project planning
- Enhanced Stakeholder Analysis
- Good Meetings Practice
- The Leader / Manager in each of us
- The Energized Project Team
- Client Rapport
- Impact of organizational culture on project planning
Project Execution & Control
- Objectives, Best Practices and Roles
- A Human Factors view of project execution and control
- Effective Project Status
- Finding Opportunity in a Sea of Risk
- Leading people to embrace change
- Getting decisions when you need them
- Impact of culture on project execution and control
Project Close
- Why Lessons Learned Aren't and what we can do
- Getting credit for work well done
- The Art of Celebration
- Impact of culture on Project Close
Wrap-Up Discussion
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.
- We will build on your prior experience in this topic, while providing you with the structure and vocabulary of an effective project management practice to use in all of your future projects.
- 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.
- Training includes instruction in the use of advanced Project Management templates.
Why should I take this course?:
- Even experienced project managers can obtain insights that will help them solve common and persistent problems.
- People in Projects delves into areas of project management that, although seldom discussed, are nonetheless central to project success. Take home a whole new set of tools and techniques.
- Take this PM training and learn what you can do to ensure that your projects get off to a great start and stays there all the way to the finish line.
- PMP®s can move beyond PMBOK® theory to find solutions to problems that they face in their projects every day.
- The exercises in this project course will give you the hands on experience you need to put new tools to immediate use.
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