Course Description
Through an intensive five-day project course, you experience real-world situations in which your recommendations and decisions impact the outcome of your project. You also develop a toolkit of templates and productivity tools for use back at work.
What Do Participants Learn?
- Manage complex projects involving strategic risks
- Incorporate the science of complexity into project management strategies
- Apply a complexity assessment model and adaptive process
- Minimize uncertainty by leveraging best practices from Critical Chain, Agile and Lean approaches
Who Should Attend?
- Managers
- Supervisors
- Executives
- Anyone managing, preparing or aspiring to manage large-scale, strategic or complex projects
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: Limits of Conventional Project Management and Complexity
- Stretching the limits of conventional project management
- Rethinking the future of project management
- Comparing and contrasting simple and complex systems
- Applying various complexity modeling techniques
- Analyzing project boundary conditions to understand the complexity of your project
- Determining the edge of chaos
- Assessing the significance of complex project risks
- Communicating project complexity factors to others
Section Two: Employing an Adaptive Project Management Process
- Building on Agile software development
- Borrowing from the combat operations loop and the scientific method
- Implementing rolling wave planning and progressive elaboration
- Managing adaptive requirements, change, and quality
- Scheduling, budgeting, and metrics on complex projects
Section Three: Minimizing Scale on Strategic Projects
- Executing portfolio management strategies
- Making the business case and delivering value
- Utilizing business capability and purpose alignment models
- Delivering minimal marketable features
- Dealing with daily disruptions
- Employing fast-tracking and crashing
- Compressing the critical path
- Evaluating Critical Chain project management
- Employing the theory of constraints and five focusing steps to eliminate waste and optimize the flow
Section Four: Exercising Strong Leadership
- Developing your core competencies
- Growing your sphere of influence and managing politics
- Facilitating emergent organization and self-management
- Agreeing on vision, goals, objectives, and values
- Empowering and motivating the team
- Implementing effective feedback loops
Section Five: Recognizing and Managing Risks and Building Your Personal Action Plan
- Quantifying and mitigating risk threats
- Exploiting risk opportunities for disruptive innovation
- Quantifying and mitigating risk threats
- Exploiting risk opportunities for disruptive innovation
- Putting it all together
- Analyzing a real-world case study
- Assessing your own real-world projects
- Identifying specific actions you will take
- Gaining support and managing risks