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Strategic Project Leadership |
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Workshop Overview |
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| This workshop is for Vice Presidents and Directors of Project Management; Project Management Office management, Senior Project Managers, Corporate Vice Presidents, Directors and senior management. This highly interactive workshop uses a lecture, discussion and team format. It will introduce a variety of examples from many different organizations derived through the research and the media. |
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| Participants will learn how to identify the specific strategies required to identify their organization's project challenges and they will leave with actions to manage these project challenges. Their organizations will benefit from improved bottom-line performance of their projects, customer satisfaction levels will increase and they will see improved levels of staff morale. All organizations regardless of whether they are comprised of 5 people or 5,000 will benefit from this new knowledge. The workshop outcomes will be measurable, as all participants will be able to take these strategies back into their own work place environments and begin executing them immediately. |
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Session Focus |
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| Corporations throughout the world are losing millions
in wasted project spending and this waste is being carefully hidden
from management and investors. The cost of the problem is staggering.
We’ll never know about the many projects in crisis in the companies
in which you or I may hold shares. The reality is that examples can
be found from just about every type of organization. We’re left
wondering what would it take to get these organizations to realize
that a tiny fraction of their losses is all they would have to invest
in order to save millions. Unfortunately, many firms seem willing
to pay out millions needlessly on bad project management. |
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| The lack of project success is not surprising given the Business
Improvement Architects findings in their research report titled, “From
Crisis to Control: A New Era In Strategic Project Management”.
It indicates that we are in a crisis with respect to how projects
are being managed and provides some clear and creative recommendations
as to how to get out of the crisis. The research study included 750
organizations around the world and explored in depth their project
management practices, successes and failures. |
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What You Will Learn |
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| At the conclusion of this session participants will: |
- Understand the reasons why projects are losing millions in
wasted spending every year in their organizations.
- Have a strategy for turning around problem and challenging projects.
- Know how to identify all projects that are currently being undertaken
within your organization.
- Recognize the crisis in project management.
- Know the four (4) things that you need to do in order to move
from crisis to control.
- Understand how to strategically align all organizational and
departmental projects.
- Have a process to create a project management culture.
- Understand how to implement strategic project management best
practices.
- Know how to create a strategic project measurement system.
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Content |
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| Introduction |
- Research on project management
- Understanding the impact of the research on your organization’s
management of projects
- The Four Things You Need to Know to Move From Crisis to Control
1. Ensure all projects are strategically aligned
2. Create a culture that supports a project management environment
3. Implement strategic project management best practices
4. Create a strategic project measurement system
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| Ensure all projects are strategically aligned |
- Recognize the strategic role of projects in organizational
success
- Role of project sponsor and senior management on projects
- Identify whether or not a project management office is suitable
- Creating a project management office
- Various project management office reporting structures
- Understanding how to correctly structure a project
- Managing virtual projects
- Developing the strategy to manage with multiple sponsors
- Creating a project prioritization process
- Identifying project prioritization impact criteria
- Aligning corporate and departmental strategic plans
- Linking leadership and strategic direction
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| Create a culture that supports project management |
- Building project management into corporate culture
- Managing within a Matrix organizational reporting structure
- Creating a culture that supports a project management environment
- Challenges in managing the culture change process
- Identifying your own project culture
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| Implement strategic project management best practices |
- Strategic project management best practices
- The project management process for managing all projects
- The process for scooping out a project
- Role and responsibilities of a project manager
- Project manager competencies
- Role and responsibilities of project team members
- Project team member competencies
- Retaining project knowledge
- Identifying the key areas for inclusion during a project close-out
- Managing the project close-out
- Retaining lessons learned
- Creating a data base of knowledge
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| Create a strategic project measurement system |
- Developing project success criteria
- Weekly and monthly status reports
- Integrated project reporting with a red, green and yellow status
- Incorporating project team performance reviews
- Improving overall project performance
- Completing project audits
- Moving projects from crisis to control
- Developing and implementation of an action plan
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Duration |
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1 Day
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