COURSE DESCRIPTION:This power session offers new ways of managing and
dealing with projects. The focus is more on communications,
understanding stakeholders’ needs and managing expectations.
Participants will also learn about organizational politics and
culture, and performing value-adding activities.
Aligned with the Project Management Institute (PMI®) Guide to the
Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide 5th Edition), this
course provides a practical approach to focusing on those things that
matter most for project success. Namely – communication, managing
stakeholder expectations, risk, change and quality, so that the scope,
schedule, cost and project goals are met as planned. In short, the
course provides the context and meaning behind the words Project
Integration. Participants will discover the approaches and techniques
that will deliver project success through topics that deal with: The
importance of proper stakeholder analysis and robust communication
planning in building the foundation for a successful project.
Utilizing best practices, concepts and methodologies and leveraging
them in the context of organizational challenges and project
realities.
Illustrating the link between effective management of back office
aspects (e.g., quality, risk, communication and change) and delivering
value and project success. Realizing the importance of assessing and
prioritizing project readiness and complexity in the context of the
organizational bigger picture to ensure alignment with organizational
objectives. The delivery format will combine lecture with practical
real-life examples. There will be mini exercises “on the go” to
apply individual learning.
This course is designed after the book Managing Stakeholder
Expectations for Project Success (Ori Schibi, 2013).
COURSE TOPICS:
● Introduction
● Module 1: The Sad Reality of Project Management and the
Need for Meaningful Project Integration
● Module 2: Project Complexity and Readiness Assessment
● Module 3: Stakeholder Needs Assessment
● Module 4: Assumptions: Project Manager’s Best Friends
● Module 5: Focus on What Matters
● Module 6: Integration: Putting it all together
LEARNING GOALS:
● Techniques for improving vertical collaboration between
project managers and other stakeholders to help achieve meaningful
results for the organization.
● Checklists and other measures that can help determine how
prepared an organization is for undertaking a project.
● Concepts around defining success criteria and in turn,
tying them to the project constraints.
● How to identify, address, track and act on assumptions
and link them to project success.
● Ways to determine project health that check a project’s
interim performance beyond the traditional measurements.
● Techniques to reduce the number of requirement and scope
changes introduced throughout the project.
● Stakeholder analysis to design a communication plan that
is relevant, effective and efficient – and addresses stakeholders’
needs.
● Integration, what it really means and what the project
manager needs to do to perform it properly.
● Concepts that help perform a meaningful lessons learned
process.
COURSE AGENDA:
DAY 1
● Introduction
● The Sad Reality of Project Management and the Need for
Meaningful Project Integration
● Project Complexity and Readiness Assessment
● Stakeholder needs Assessment
DAY 2
● Assumptions: Project Manager’s Best Friends
● Focus on What Matters
● Integration: Putting it all together
WHO CAN ATTEND?
This course is designed for project, program and operations
managers, as well as project sponsors and personnel who work in
project environments.
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