Course Description
Handling several projects at once means more than dealing with just multiple schedules; it involves multiple risks, multiple stakeholders, and multiple functional managers who allocate resources. The key to managing multiple projects expertly is to recognize priorities and delegate wisely – not an easy feat in today’s complex environment. To do that successfully, you need to understand what makes up your workload, as well as an understanding of how risk, human resources, and schedules must be integrated.
What Do Participants Learn?
This project management training course provides insight into recognizing integration points in both related and seemingly unrelated projects and how to effectively manage them. It also shows how to leverage project management processes to be more effective across multiple projects.
Who Should Attend?
Employees managing multiply related and/or unrelated projects including
- Directors
- Head of the Department
- Project Managers
- Portfolio Managers
What Will the Learning Experience Include?
Phase: 1
Introduce
- Comprehensive pre-program activities include:
- Web-based information forms & surveys completed by attendee.
- Direct consultation with the attendee about the expectations.
- During the training, participants engage in data, activities, and conversations that lead to insight and knowledge.
- Participants learn from expert trainers who have both academic and business experiences.
- Highly applicable training content & instructive activities for adding depth to training topics.
- **A half-day site visit for integrating the experience & plan next steps. Opportunities to provide connections, ideas & support.
Phase: 2
Explore & Practice
Phase: 3
Apply
- Apply & sustain the learning experience by using this ongoing support:
- To ensure participant has new skills or behavior progress.
- Optional, fee-based mentoring & coaching with the trainer.
- Training materials & additional documents (e-books, pdf files, presentations and articles)
- Evaluate your training experience by giving us feedbacks and help us to reach our organizational goals.
- Participant's Evaluation
- Trainer's Evaluation
Phase: 4
EVALUATE
Section 1
Module 1: Project Management and Key Skills Required
- Introduction to project management concepts and definitions
- The role and responsibilities of the project management
Module 2: Multiple Projects Management
- What Is Multiple Project Management?
Module 3: Challenges of Multi-Projects Environment
- Describe characteristics of the modern project environment
- Identify organizational resources available for project management
- Address the competing demands on multiple projects
Section 2
Module 4: Planning and scheduling of multiple projects
- Stream of Projects
- Initiating and Planning Multiple Projects
- Integrated Master Plan (IMP)
- Work Breakdown Structures (WBSs)
- Integrate schedules in the multi-project environment
- Multiple Project Resource Allocation
- Analyze project schedules for resource over allocation
- Integrated Master Schedule (IMS)
- Program and Portfolio Management
- Aligning multiple projects
Section 3
Module 5: Risk Management on Multiple Projects
- Describe common causes of delay in projects
- Describe common causes of delay in projects using CPM
- Explain the options for dealing with the common causes of delay when using CPM
- Discuss the pros and cons of each of the options used for dealing with delay in CPM projects
Module 6: Project Portfolio
- Registration of Projects into the Portfolio
- Working with the Program/Project Management Office (PMO)
Module 7: Assessing Multiple Project Schedules
- Schedule Assessment Best Practices
Section 4
Module 8: Monitoring, Controlling, and Reporting
- Monitoring and Controlling Overview
- Variance Analysis
- Role of Earned Value Management (EVM)
- Reporting EVM in a Multiple Project Environment
- Executing, Monitoring, and Controlling Checks
- Issue Management on Multiple Projects
- Project Reporting
Module 9: Action Planning
Section 5
Module 10: Workload and Delegation
- Baseline and prioritize your individual workload
- Describe methods to manage your workload
- Explain the five necessary steps for effective task delegation
Module 11: Relationship Management in the Multiple Project Environments
- Describe two components of relationship management
- Describe techniques for creating authentic communication
- List strategies for dealing with conflict
- Develop methods to prepare for difficult conversations
Training Summary
Final Notes – Discussion
Training Evaluation