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
