This 1 day (8 classroom hours) seminar is intended to introduce the key concepts and fundamentals that need to be understood in order to create a structure and culture that allows an organization to realize the full benefits that “Managing By Projects” has to offer. Discover what competencies are needed for an effective project manager, and how to empower a project manager to plan, execute, control and close out the project, understanding that projects are the financial life-blood of today’s business. 

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

Directors, Presidents, Vice Presidents and Senior Advisors/Managers, Senior Functional Managers, Government Policy Makers, Academic Deans and other Organizational Change Leaders. 

WHAT YOU WILL ACHIEVE:

• How to create and sustain a project management culture;  Capability Maturity Models, Portfolio, Program and Project Management Offices;
• How to select and empower project managers with the right competencies; 
• How to develop and support project managers and project teams to deliver projects achieving the organizations objectives;  
• What organizational and supporting infrastructure needs to be in place in support of a Project Centric Business Strategy;
• How to evaluate work and deliverables in terms of value for money using “Cockpit” or “Dashboard” automated report mechanisms;
• How to understand the language of project management to maximize the realization of the full potential Project Management has to offer;

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN:

• The logic of Project Management- Why use a “Systems Engineering” approach to Project Management.
• Project Environment and the Project Life Cycle- Defining projects, the life cycle and corporate environment needed to support managing by projects, including Activity Based Costing;
• To obtain “buy in”, participation and support from the Project Stakeholders;
• Establishing and sustaining a project management culture- The importance of Senior Management support and how to introduce Project Management to your organization;
• Project Management Organization-Types of projects and the organizations that support them. Functional vs Matrix v. Projectized organizations;
• Competencies of a Project Manager- Competency models for a Project Manager, career path development for future project managers.
• Project Leadership- Importance of team components, development of team commitment and using team conflict to advantage;
• Initiating and defining the project- Creating a project Charter, defining the customer needs and expectations and using a Project Definition Work Sheet;
• Planning Projects- Creating “Top Down’ Work Breakdown Structures, (WBS) risk management tools and techniques, scheduling tools and estimating budget and resource requirements;
• Controlling and evaluating projects- Project Control, identifying and managing variance, solutions to negative variances, using earned value management as the key management tool, and evaluating a manager’s performance and overall project performance using earned value techniques.
• Closing out a project- Making project go/no go decisions, knowing when to kill a project, the importance of capturing and documenting lessons learned.

TEXTBOOKS & COURSE MATERIALS:

      Course Handouts + Book