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Strategic Project Management: Achieving Organizational Goals

 
Course: 287     Type: RealityPlus     Duration: 4 Days

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You Will Learn How To
  • Manage large-scale, complex projects involving substantial budgets and cross-functional teams
  • Determine business benefits and project feasibility
  • Align your projects with organizational strategy
  • Communicate effectively with key stakeholders to ensure project success
  • Monitor and report project progress using Earned Value Management
  • Measure project quality and make adjustments using effective change management

Course Benefits
To avoid delay, disruption and rework when managing large, complex projects, project managers need strong leadership, communication and problem-solving skills to make sound business decisions. Through an intensive four-day project simulation, you experience real-world situations in which your decisions impact the outcome of your project. You also take away productivity tools and templates for use back at work.

Who Should Attend
Project and program managers who are responsible for managing large, complex projects. Experience, including creating Gantt and PERT charts, and performing basic risk analysis at the level of Course 296, "Project Management: Skills for Success," or Course 340, "Project Management for Software Development," is assumed.

Through an authentic case study-based simulation, you gain experience managing a large-scale and complex project. Paper-based and PC-based activities include:
  • Identifying and managing stakeholders
  • Evaluating a customer acceptance plan
  • Analyzing project feasibility
  • Preparing a communication plan
  • Identifying and analyzing strategic risk
  • Developing a risk management plan
  • Evaluating project progress using EVM
  • Responding to project change
  • Measuring and presenting results
  • Applying best practice leadership skills
  • Creating lessons learned for organizational improvement

Course 287 Content
The Art and Science of Project Management
  • Comparing simple and complex projects
  • Diagnosing and measuring project complexity
  • Structuring a complex project
Assessing Project Viability
Selecting projects based on financial assessment
  • Payback
  • ROI
  • NPV
Determining project feasibility
  • Validating project priorities
  • Managing the capacity load balance
Examining costs and benefits
  • Appraising business benefits
  • Establishing technical and organizational readiness
Navigating Organizational Structures
Analyzing organizational issues
  • Leveraging the strengths of existing matrix organizations
  • Working with weak, strong and projectized environments
Adopting a stakeholder management process
  • Managing stakeholder priorities
  • Determining stakeholder significance and impact
Planning and Managing Effective Project Communication
Defining a communication plan
  • Mapping information needs
  • Selecting the appropriate media
Implementing the plan
  • Drawing RACI diagrams
  • Choosing a communication channel
Developing a Project Process
Creating a project life cycle
  • Identifying APM, PMI and PRINCE2™ components that support your project
  • Employing best practices for managing your project life cycle
The role of the Project Management Office (PMO)
  • Defining the functions of a PMO
  • Leveraging the advantages of a PMO
Managing Strategic Risks
Developing a risk management process
  • Identifying strategic risks in the project
  • Employing checklists
Analyzing strategic project risks
  • Evaluating the impact of risk on your plan
  • Qualitative vs. quantitative techniques
  • Choosing the best course of action
Procuring Products and Services
Planning procurement strategies
  • Applying a vendor selection process
  • Evaluating "make or buy" decisions
  • Calculating cost of ownership
Soliciting external contracts
  • Evaluating vendor proposals
  • Negotiating contracts to manage risk
Employing Earned Value Management (EVM)
Reporting project status
  • Leveraging the power of EVM to keep projects on track
  • Computing CV, SV, CPI and SVI measures
  • Predicting likely outcomes
  • Charting project performance
Tracking against time and budget
  • Avoiding common traps of EVM
  • Interpreting EVM charts for decision making
Controlling Project Change
Defining quality standards
  • Mapping deliverables to standards
  • Measuring adherence to standards
Implementing change management
  • Identifying sources of change
  • Crafting a change management process
  • Avoiding "gold plating"
Putting It All Together
  • Becoming a strategic project manager
  • Championing professionalism and ethics
  • Closing and evaluating the project

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