Project Management Overview for Executives
Project & Contracting & Law
Introduction
How do you build you project management
capacity while nurturing the right level of empowerment and authority in your
project management culture? This practical, interactive seminar focuses on the
key role management play in implementing effective project management
discipline and culture in an organization. Gain deeper insight about project
management and your role as a key contributor to business success. Learn more
about the advantages and demands of implementing and supporting a project
management culture and the benefits of advancing organizational project
management. The workshop offers a broad range of best practice in evaluating
and prioritizing projects, allocating resources, and monitoring and controlling
the performance of projects.
By the end of the course, participants will be
able to:
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Develop a project
management culture that is high with emotional intelligence (build confidence
and develop empowerment balance between management).
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Understand the top 10
principles of managing projects successfully.
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Kick-off the project
effectively and clarify business measurable objectives to the team.
·
Build a simple proactive
risk management discipline to make project decisions proactively.
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Guide the development and
approval of project planning and project baseline.
·
Conduct periodical project
review based on accomplishment of major milestones.
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Understand and manage
expectations with project managers to set the project for success.
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Establish a control system
for project performance that minimizes unexpected surprises.
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Implement project
management portfolio in selecting, prioritizing, implementing, canceling and
closing the right projects.
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Lay the foundation of
project management maturity and help it grow.
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Understand how to lead and
supporting project managers, stakeholders, and vendors.
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Create an action plan for
making it happen in your company.
Course Outline
Day 1:
- The goals and objectives of
project management in an organization.
- Characteristics of
successful projects.
- Criteria of healthy and
competent project management culture.
- Framework of project
management portfolio (selecting, prioritizing, implementing, canceling and
closing the right projects).
- Fundamental of PMI’s Project
Management Body of Knowledge and how can you adopt it to your
organization.
- Understand the role of
executives in making the project manager successful.
- Follow the project selection
methods.
- Set strategic goals and
ensure they are understood by team members.
- Facilitate the initiation
and kick-off of the project.
- Identify project
requirement, objectives, roles and responsibilities, and success criteria.
- Identify and perform project
stakeholder analysis.
- Monitor the development and
approve of project charter.
- Guide the development and
approval of project planning and project baseline.
- Facilitate project planning
workshops for project scope, risk management, and project scope.
- Lay the foundation of
project management maturity.
- Develop the project change
control process.
- Approve the project
management plan.
- Ensure common understanding
of project objectives and set and manage expectations.
- Execute an effective quality
management plan that is based on pre-defined deliverable criteria.
- Execute pre-approved changes
and workaround.
- Improve performance by
motivating and building confidence in team members.
Establish an effective control and monitoring
system
- Validate project performance based on measurable criteria.
- Verify and manage the changes to the
project.
- Monitor the responses to risks and ensure
the involvement of project stockholders.
- Establish and manage the escalation
process and help PMs to succeed.
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