Senior Project Management
| Best practices & latest trends...advanced concepts & techniques...
complex international projects. | | |
As a senior manager, you are responsible for an increasing number of cross-functional, complex projects. This intensive, interactive, high level program - conceived specially for managers and executives with project or line management experience - will substantially expand your capability, equipping you with a wealth of high-grade, practical information. It will expose you to the most recent concepts, tools, techniques and systems that can be deployed in managing cross-functional teams. This program is emphatically state-of-the-art, addressing important issues and defining solutions.
DURATION
2 or 3 days
FOR WHOM IS THE SEMINAR INTENDED
This course is targeted at experienced project managers, interested in learning advanced concepts through a combination of lectures, current examples and exchange of experiences amongst participants from diverse industries and cultural backgrounds.
OBJECTIVES
This course will help you to: - Share detailed insights into how projects are managed in some of the world's leading companies
- Develop a holistic approach to project management, taking into account organizational requirements, people, culture and team issues, and business issues
- Obtain a thorough understanding of advanced project management concepts and their application in complex and international projects
- Be immersed in real issues and their successful resolutions
- Learn how to apply bench marking techniques and how to develop positive plans for improvement
| | | Project Planning Systems and Behaviors (the state-of-the-art) - Necessary ingredients of a project execution plan
- The five basic project planning elements
- Project definition and approval cycles
Goal: building agreement
- Structuring and organizing multiple projects and task teams
Goal: building accountability - Scheduling multiple projects, tasks, and resourcing
Goal: building communications.
- Establishing performance baselines, budgets, and contingencies
Goal: building control Workshop: Structuring and Organizing
Participants share their greatest challenges in conducting appropriate planning and control of projects and programs in their companies and suggest solutions to these problems.
| Organizational Support of Project Teams - Designing the organization for project management
- New approaches and trends from various industries
- The influence of different cultures, values, and management styles on organizational effectiveness
- Using executive management committees, groups, and teams for organizational support
Workshop: Organizational Support
Participants share their organizations' greatest assets and biggest challenges in providing organizational support to cross-functional projects teams and propose solutions to these challenges
Participation: An Assessment of Your Organizational Support
Participants will assess the organizational support to project teams provided by their companies and benchmark their results against research data being gathered by BMC from a wide range of international companies. | Project Control Behaviors - The most basic requirements for a company and its projects to be "in control"
- Project control in a multiproject environment
- Performance measurement and reporting methods
- Designing reporting systems
Project Risk Management - What do we mean by "risk"?
- Risk management in an operational environment
- How to perform a risk assessment
| Project Management as a Management Method - Project teams as building blocks of the company
- Latest trends in "management by projects" and cross-organizational teams
- Effects of differences in national, organizational, and personal cultures and values
- Organizational ingredients for effective project management
Participation: The Assessment Inventory of Project Management
Participants will determine how well they conduct project management. | |
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