Course description
Today’s companies understand that successful project management is crucial for business growth and organisational change. And while many are actively looking for ways to expand their project management capabilities in order to take on more complex and novel projects, few have been able to successfully connect the dots between their strategic goals and their project goals.
This programme presents concepts essential for developing these broader project capabilities, enabling leaders to fill in the context gaps within their projects and to envision what shape the implementation might take within their organisations.
While other programmes focus on the technical aspects of project management, Steering Complex Projects explores three different project types: execution, novel and change. Each type of project must be managed differently, taking into account the politics and negotiation of strategy within projects.
As a participant, you will also learn how to build the personnel and incentive structure necessary to identify the right project for your strategy and implement it.
Upcoming start dates
Upcoming start dates
Suitability - Who should attend?
Managing and Steering Complex Projects programme is ideal for:
C-suite and senior-level executives seeking an overview of project management as well as insights on choosing the most appropriate project approach based on their strategic objective.
Highly experienced PMP-certified project managers looking to go deeper than traditional PMP courses and develop their leadership skills in project management.
Consultants who need the skill to articulate the case for projects and influence multiple stakeholders.
The programme’s lessons are applicable across most major industries, including banking and finance, consulting, government, infrastructure,
Outcome / Qualification etc.
By the end of thisManaging and Steering Complex Projects programme you will learn:
To manage and steer complexity and change
Incorporate the science of complexity into project management strategies
Manage complex projects involving strategic risks
Apply a complexity assessment model and adaptive process
Minimise uncertainty by leveraging best practises from Critical Chain, Agile, and Lean approaches
Upgrade from traditional PPM approaches
Identify the new generation of projects and programme types
Develop your own personal project management style
Grasp the advantage of the latest cutting edge research
A valuable overview of the current state and future trends in project/programme management.
Training Course Content
Day 1
IntroductiontoSteering Complex Projects
The project initialisation
The project planning
Design of project plans, cost estimates and budgets
Planning of project quality, personnel deployment and communication channels
Day 2
Projects as Strategic Change
Understand the strategic goals of the organisation and articulate what the project outcomes will contribute to the strategy
Understand the political process of creating project goals, including negotiating and seeking win-win coalitions
Translate high level strategic goals into project goals
Day 3
Execution Projects
Identify the key characteristics of execution projects
Understand the managerial relevance of the critical path and limitations
Identify uncertainties and take mitigative or responsive actions
Day 4
Novel Projects
Identify the key characteristics of novel projects and the technical steps of managing them
Articulate steps to follow when encountering unforeseeable uncertainty
Understand pivoting/iterating and parallelism, and how to incorporate them into project planning and monitoring
Day 5
Change Projects
Identify the four methods for managing a change project
Generate guidelines for managing the social dimensions of change
Author a template for stakeholder management
Day 6
Managing People and Teams
Identify and apply ingredients of goal clarity and three criteria for them
Articulate competency-driven values for a project
Analyse how to deal with rule-breakers and high-performers and establish related guidelines
Day 7
Governance
Understand the role governance plays in maintaining strategic alignment in projects
Identify the five elements of well-designed governance structures
Build a framework for managing the governance structure with accountability measures
Day 8
Partners
Understand what contracts can and cannot do, and identify the four different types of contracts for an appropriate fit
Understand the role that co-location can play in project management
Understand how renegotiation must be built into the contract from the beginning
Day 9
Project Communications
Channels & Models
Communications Management Plan
Manage Communications
Monitor Communications
Solutions
Day 10
Learning and Integration
Identify the tools for each project type, and how to deploy them
Make informed choices from the portfolio of tools to ensure projects encourage learning within the organisation
Apply established methods of knowledge exchange and learning tools in a way that is appropriate to the challenges of a project Monitoring and control of project risks, contract management
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