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
