Executive Overview: Managing the Successful-Project Climate
Why
This Course
In an era of increased emphasis on Management By Project, few organizations
are fully realizing the benefits possible. Your opportunity is to build
a climate that supports effective project practices: accurate and useful
estimates, accelerated delivery, project partnerships, an emphasis on
quality, alternatives analysis, and two-way communication. Then you support
that climate with consistent methods and improved tools for project estimating
and project management.
This Executive Overview provides key managers and executives with a better
understanding of the steps they can take to improve their organization's
project management. It identifies the information they should expect from
their Project Managers in order to improve project return-on-investment,
and describes the items to pay attention to in order to continue improvement.
Learning Objectives
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Discuss the problems facing today's projects,
and the actions a manager can take to improve the project environment. |
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Identify the vital signs that the manager
monitors in order to determine his or her staff's chances of project
success.
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Discuss the tools and techniques that
the skilled Project Manager uses, and identify the benefits of consistent
use of those techniques. Identify the key questions a manager asks,
in order to assure that proper project management techniques are being
used.
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Discuss the impact a manager has on the development of Project Managers,
and the climate the ideal project operates within. |
Audience
This overview is for the organization whose staff has benefited from
our Project Management workshops. We customize the content to your organization's
issues, using this sample outline as a starting-point.
The intended audience is key managers and executives who direct the efforts
of Project Managers and teams. We tailor the level of the information and
duration to the level of management involved.
Course Outline (2 - 4 hours)
1. Themes Of A Successful Project Climate
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Today's Challenges |
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The Emergence of Management By Projects |
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The Vital Signs of Successful Projects;
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The Importance of Communication |
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The Customer Partnership; Customer Involvement |
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Focus Areas For Improving Effectiveness |
2. Project Management
Skills
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Project Types and Strategies |
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Problem-Solving and Opportunity-Seizing
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Work Planning Skills; Life Cycles |
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Early Project Estimating; The Greatest Factors That Make Estimates Wrong |
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Improving Management Information With Assumptions-Based Estimating |
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Scheduling: Getting Rid of Can't Charts;
Faster/Cheaper/Better Trade-offs |
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An Ideal Tracking and Reporting System |
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Summary |
3. The Manager's Role In Building Better Projects
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