Advanced Project Management Workshop - Course Content

1. General Project Critical Success Factors

  • How to build a scalable project management methodology tailored to suit your business
  • Project success beyond the triple constraints, how to satisfy all stakeholders • Understand how to establish and maintain your authority in a matrix organisation
  • Understand the “business” behind project management
  • Learn how to deal with the organisational change your project may be influencing

2. Stakeholder Management

  • Learn how to work effectively with your sponsor
  • Learn various techniques to identify and manage all project stakeholders for improved requirements, communications and risk management
  • Apply a proven technique to prioritise stakeholders
  • Understand how to set and manage stakeholder requirements over the total project lifecycle
  • Use the kick-off meeting to establish behavioural expectations

3. Leadership & Management

  • Understand the key leadership competencies required of a project manager to ensure success
  • Learn how to ensure accountability, responsibility and secure commitment from the team
  • Learn how to select and lead the core team to optimise productivity and avoid unwanted conflict

4. Requirements Management

  • Develop a succinct project objective to guide requirements planning and future decision making
  • Learn a simple process to identify and develop well-formed project requirements
  • Apply a proven technique to resolve requirements conflicts
  • Utilise a tool to prioritise project requirements which removes hidden agendas

5. Scope Management

  • Instil accountability during the development of the work packages
  • Learn how to effectively manage change and ensure on-going project integrity

6. Time Management

  • Learn how to develop achievable project durations in high risk project environments
  • Learn how to develop a realistic critical path schedule
  • Learn how to utilise float to optimise and manage project resources
  • Apply a comprehensive checklist to ensure schedule integrity
  • Understand Add-ins available for Microsoft Project to simplify schedule risk planning
  • Utilise advanced techniques to negotiate the triple constraints with the stakeholders
  • Understand how to apply the techniques and the trade-offs in schedule compression

7. Quality Management

  • Learn how to establish the quality perceptions of the stakeholders
  • Learn how to use a simple health check to analyse the current state of your project and apply proven remedies to aid recovery

8. Communications Management

  • Learn when and how to develop an effective Communications plan
  • Learn the effective project performance metrics and efficient status reporting
  • Learn how to set and continuously manage stakeholders expectations

9. Risk Management

  • Use opportunity management to exceed stakeholder expectations
  • Learn how to get senior management to pay attention to key risks
  • Learn an effective technique to rigorously describe risk events
  • Learn techniques to analyse and rank risk events
  • Learn techniques to analyse and prioritise risk strategies

10. Procurement Management

  • Learn fundamental negotiation techniques to gain the advantage during procurement
  • Learn how to structure a contract in order to share the risk and give the seller incentive

11. Baselines & Performance

  • Use the relationship between the project plan and project baseline as leverage
  • Learn how to obtain a timely acceptance of the baseline by the stakeholders
  • Learn how to apply advanced Earned Value Management to objectively manage performance
  • Use Earned Value Management data to do trend analysis and predict future project performance