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Strategic Project Management: Achieving Organizational Goals

 
Course: 287   Type: RealityPlus   Duration: 4 Days
 
 

You Will Learn How To

  • Manage complex projects involving substantial budgets, strategic risks and aggressive time scales
  • Determine key business benefits and project financial feasibility
  • Align your cross-functional projects with organizational strategy and life cycles
  • Communicate effectively with key stakeholders to ensure project success
  • Monitor and report project progress using Earned Value Management
  • Design an effective change management process that delivers and supports strategic business projects

Course Benefits

To avoid delay, disruption and rework when managing large, complex projects, project managers need strong leadership, communication and problem-solving skills to make sound business decisions. Through an intensive four-day project simulation, you experience real-world situations in which your decisions impact the outcome of your project. You also have access to productivity tools and templates for use back at work.

Who Should Attend

Project and program managers who are responsible for managing business-focused projects. Experience, including creating Gantt and PERT charts, and performing basic risk analysis at the level of Course 296, "Project Management: Skills for Success," or Course 340, "Project Management for Software Development," is assumed.


Through an authentic case study-based simulation, you gain experience managing a large-scale and complex project. Paper-based and PC-based activities include:

  • Identifying and managing stakeholders
  • Analyzing project feasibility
  • Preparing a communication plan
  • Identifying and analyzing strategic risk
  • Assessing suppliers against established standards
  • Evaluating project progress using EVM
  • Responding to project change
  • Measuring and presenting results
  • Applying best practice leadership skills
  • Creating lessons learned for organizational improvement

Related Courses

 
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Upcoming Dates

Jul 14 - 17, 2009
 Ottawa
Sep 1 - 4, 2009
 Los Angeles
Sep 15 - 18, 2009
 New York
Sep 29 - Oct 2, 2009
 Washington, DC (Alexandria, VA)
Oct 13 - 16, 2009
 Philadelphia
Nov 24 - 27, 2009
 Toronto
Jan 19 - 22, 2010
 Chicago (Downtown)
Feb 9 - 12, 2010
 Washington, DC (Rockville, MD)
Feb 16 - 19, 2010
 Boston (Waltham)
Mar 16 - 19, 2010
 New York
Mar 23 - 26, 2010
 Philadelphia

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Strategic Project Management: Achieving Organizational Goals

 
Course: 287   Type: RealityPlus   Duration: 4 Days
 
 
Course 287 Content
 

The Art and Science of Project Management

  • Comparing simple and complex projects
  • Diagnosing and measuring project complexity
  • Structuring a complex project

Assessing Project Viability

Selecting projects based on financial assessment

  • Payback
  • ROI
  • NPV
  • IRR

Determining project feasibility

  • Validating project priorities in the organization
  • Managing the capacity load balance

Examining costs and benefits

  • Appraising business benefits
  • Establishing technical and organizational readiness

Managing the Organization and Stakeholders

Analyzing organizational issues

  • Leveraging the strengths of existing matrix organizations
  • Working with weak, strong and projectized environments

Adopting a stakeholder management process

  • Managing stakeholder priorities
  • Determining stakeholder significance and impact

Planning and Managing Effective Project Communication

Defining a communication plan

  • Mapping information needs
  • Selecting the appropriate media

Implementing the plan

  • Implementing and using a RACI diagram
  • Choosing a communication channel

Developing a Project Process

Creating a project life cycle

  • Identifying key APM, PMI® and PRINCE2® components that support your project
  • Employing best practices for managing your project life cycle

The role of the Project Management Office (PMO)

  • Defining the functions of a PMO
  • Leveraging the advantages of a PMO

Managing Strategic Risks

Developing a risk management process

  • Identifying strategic risks in the project
  • Employing checklists

Analyzing strategic project risks

  • Evaluating the impact of risk on your plan
  • Qualitative vs. quantitative techniques
  • Choosing the best course of action

Managing Contracts and the Procurement Process

Planning procurement strategies

  • Applying a vendor selection process
  • Evaluating “make or buy” decisions
  • Calculating cost of ownership

Soliciting external contracts

  • Evaluating vendor proposals
  • Negotiating contracts to manage risk

Employing Earned Value Management (EVM)

Reporting project status

  • Leveraging the power of EVM to keep projects on track
  • Computing CV, SV, CPI and SVI measures
  • Predicting likely outcomes
  • Charting project performance

Tracking against time and budget

  • Avoiding common traps of EVM
  • Interpreting EVM charts for decision making

Controlling Project Change

Designing an effective change control process

  • Mapping the business processes
  • Setting controls and thresholds for change

Implementing change management

  • Identifying sources of change
  • Crafting a change management process
  • Avoiding the “gold plating” culture

Putting It All Together

  • Becoming a strategic project manager
  • Championing professionalism and ethics
  • Closing and evaluating the project
 
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Strategic Project Management: Achieving Organizational Goals Tuition

 
Course: 287   Type: RealityPlus   Duration: 4 Days
 
 

Course Tuition
$ 2,790 Standard Tuition
Tuition with a Savings Plan
$ 1,667 Training Passport
$ 1,700 Premium-Pass
$ 2,170 Triple-Pack
$ 2,200 Voucher 10-Pack
$ 2,515 Alumni Gold Discount
$ 2,484 Government Discount
 

 

Your Course Tuition Entitles You To...

  • Class participation
  • Team workshops
  • Use of in-class hands-on equipment
  • Comprehensive course materials
  • Morning and afternoon refreshments
  • Course Completion Certificate awarding Continuing Education Units
  • FREE participation in Professional Certification
  • FREE participation in College Credit programs (including related exams)
  
 

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  • 3 courses in 12 months
  • As little as $1,667 per course
  • Savings as much as 45%
  • Only $5,000
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  • 4 courses in 24 months
  • As little as $1,700 per course
  • Save as much as 45%
Training Vouchers
  • Save as much as $990 per course
  • Fully transferable
  • As low as $2,200 per course
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