Complex Project Management
COURSE TYPE
Advanced
Course Number
287
Duration
4 Days
Through an intensive real-world, four-day project scenario, this training course provides you with complex project management techniques, the knowledge to understand and communicate project complexity, and a toolkit of templates and productivity tools that will help you back at work as you make recommendations and decisions throughout a project lifecycle.
You Will Learn How To
- Incorporate the science of complexity into project management strategies
- Manage complex projects involving strategic risks
- Apply a complexity assessment model and adaptive process
- Minimize uncertainty by leveraging best practices from Critical Chain, Agile, and Lean approaches
Important Course Information
Recommended Experience:
- Solid understanding of conventional project management at the level of:
- Course 296, Project Management: Skills for Success, or
- Course 340, Project Management for Software Development
Course Outline
- Considering the Limits of Conventional Project Management
- Stretching the limits of conventional project management
- Rethinking the future of project management
- Defining Complexity Science, Chaos Theory and Project Complexity Factors
Introducing complexity science and chaos theory
- Comparing and contrasting simple and complex systems
- Applying various complexity modeling techniques
Adopting the four-dimensional project complexity diagnostic tool
- Analyzing project boundary conditions to understand the complexity of your project
- Determining the edge of chaos
- Assessing the significance of complex project risks
- Communicating project complexity factors to others
- Employing an Adaptive Project Management Process
Beginning with adaptive principles
- Building with Agile software development
- Borrowing from the combat operations loop and the scientific method
The four-step adaptive project management process
- Implementing rolling wave planning and progressive elaboration
- Managing adaptive requirements, change and quality
- Scheduling, budgeting and metrics on complex projects
- Minimizing Scale on Strategic Projects
Aligning with corporate strategy and value engineering
- Executing portfolio management strategies
- Making the business case and delivering value
- Utilizing business capability and purpose alignment models
Developing small, strategic batches of work
- Applying Van Creveld's Iron Rule and Occam's Razor
- Delivering minimal marketable features
- Managing Pace on Complex Projects
Maintaining control through speed and agility
- Dealing with daily disruptions
- Employing fast-tracking and crashing
- Compressing the critical path
Incorporating Critical Chain and Lean techniques
- Evaluating Critical Chain project management
- Employing the theory of constraints and five focusing steps to eliminate waste and optimize flow
- Exercising Strong Leadership
Leading adaptive teams
- Developing your core competencies
- Growing your sphere of influence and managing politics
Building CRACK teams
- Facilitating emergent organization and self-management
- Agreeing on vision, goals, objectives and values
- Empowering and motivating the team
- Implementing effective feedback loops
- Recognizing and Managing Risks
Identifying and managing risks with scenario modeling
- Quantifying and mitigating risk threats
- Exploiting risk opportunities for disruptive innovation
Implementing probabilistic estimating tools and techniques
- Managing precision and accuracy
- Correcting estimating bias and reducing variability
- Revisiting the cone of uncertainty and order of magnitude estimating
- Leveraging PERT, Monte Carlo and Agile techniques
- Building Your Personal Action Plan
- Putting it all together
- Analyzing a real-world case study
- Assessing your own real-world projects
- Identifying specific actions you will take
- Gaining support and managing risks
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Tuition due 30 days after you attend your course.
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Tuition
Standard
Government
In Classroom or
Online
Standard
$2990
Government
$2659
Private Team Training
Course Tuition Includes:
Training Hours
Standard Course Hours: 9:00 am – 4:30 pm
*Informal discussion with instructor about your projects or areas of special interest: 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm
FREE Online Course Exam (if applicable) – Last Day: 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm
By successfully completing your FREE online course exam, you will:
- Have a record of your growth and learning results
- Bring proof of your progress back to your organization
- Earn credits toward industry certifications (if applicable)
Enhance Your Credentials with Professional Certification
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Earn 23 Credits from NASBA
This course qualifies for 23 CPE credits from the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy CPE program. Read more ...
Earn 22 PDUs
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and PMBOK are marks of the Project Management Institute, Inc.
This course is approved by PMI® for 22 professional development units (PDUs). For more on the Project Management Institute and a full list of courses approved for PDUs.
Technical : 22 PDUs