This course is available for onsite or custom training. Please contact us if you are interested in scheduling this class for your group.
Course Description:
As a project sponsor or executive, you depend on project managers to deliver business results for your organization. But they can't do it alone. They need your help to support the right processes, provide the right information and resources and ask the tough questions when necessary.
You will learn about the psychology of change and how using a few simple tools to help projects manage effectively can save time and money to increase value as well as help those in the organization to be happier, healthier, and more effective.
This foundational workshop will give you the understanding of modern project management concepts. You will also learn the skills you need to understand how to work with project managers individually and as part of a project management office (PMO) and how to enable them to achieve the project results you expect.
Our instructors are PMP-certified project management specialists who have been on both sides of projects as project manager and as project sponsors. We have helped many organizations develop effective relationships between executive sponsors, stakeholders and project teams.
- Becoming familiar with the core concepts of project management and the project lifecycle
- Understanding the roles people play on projects and how each contributes to project success
- Understanding an approach to portfolio management and how management by objectives can help you select the projects that really matter to the bottom line
- Analyzing the projects potential and determining how it fits into the portfolio
- Describing the function of project governance and understanding fundamental project politics (e.g., project realities in large organizations)
- Understanding why planning seems to take so long and finding ways to allow for a planning cycle appropriate to the complexity of the project
- Increasing your return on investment by serving as change agent for the project outcomes
- Understanding the typical time and decision-making commitments project managers need from you to complete a successful project
- Providing project managers with the resources they need to be successful, such as budget, people and time for the project, authority to manage project resources and make project decisions, providing project management training and support resources
- Understanding how changes to the project impact cost, time, scope and quality and reset your expectations appropriately
- Anticipating change, helping protect the project from unnecessary changes, and communicating changes to the project manager
- Discovering ways to encourage and actively support the use of PM best-practices and learning how they can impact projects and company objectives
- Using assessment methods to analyze project performance, identifying the major causes of poor project performance and developing an approach to address poor performance before your project suffers
- Learning which questions to ask during execution/control to cut through the unnecessary detail or the smoke and mirrors to assess true project performance
- Project Sponsors
- Executives
- Functional Managers
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