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.
Successful people set themselves goals and objectives. They know what they need to do, how they need to do it and have a plan to help them achieve it. How you plan and prioritize your day are two of the key skills needed to be successful and add value to your organization. Time is one of our most valuable resources yet we don’t always manage it as effectively as we could. This can lead to a stressful working environment which will prevent you from being successful and achieving your goals.
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.
At the end of this training course, you will learn to: Set yourself meaningful goals and objectives, plan, prioritize and manage your time more effectively, communicate positively and assertively with time stealers, run more effective meetings and delegate effectively, identify and reduce stress in yourself and others.
Who Should Attend?
- All Professionals
- Supervisors
- Personnel Professionals
- Training Professionals
- 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 One:
- Introduction to project management concepts and definitions
- The role and responsibilities of the project management
- What Is Multiple Project Management?
- Describe characteristics of the modern project environment Identify organizational resources available for project management
- Address the competing demands on multiple projects
Section Two:
- 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 Three:
- 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
Section Four:
- 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
Section Five:
- Goal setting – why have goals?
- Setting SMART objectives to achieve your goals
- Planning and scheduling your activities
- Establishing responsibilities and priorities
- Effective use of diaries, time planners, time logs, etc.
- Criteria for prioritizing using the urgent and important model
- My Perfect Section – when are you at your best?