Course Description
Rapid Assessment and Recovery of Troubled Projects demonstrates a proven process to project recovery. This 5-day training course guides the experienced project manager in the application of successful techniques for assessing the status of a project, determining if a recovery is possible, and turning the project around. Attendees will get everything they need to perform in a Rapid Assessment and Recovery of Troubled Projects, develop a solid recovery plan and then manage the transition to stability. This step by step training course will guide you to the success, with scope management, risk management, integration management, comparative risk ranking, comparative problem ranking.
What Do Participants Learn?
At the end of this training seminar, you will learn to:
- Perform a rapid assessment of a project to determine its status
- Determine whether stabilization is possible
- Establish a stabilization plan
- Lead a transition to a stabilized project
- Define a continuous improvement system
Who Should Attend?
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: Overview of the Rapid Assessment and Recovery Process
- Key variables: people, process, tools, metrics
- Key inhibitors and sensitivities
- Identifying the early warning signs of troubled projects
- Assessment benefits and challenges by assessment type
- Overview of the Rapid Assessment Model
- Assessment and stabilization charter
- Process summary
Section Two: Develop the Assessment Plan
- Plan assessment process
- Keys to performing good assessments
- Rapid assessment planning meeting and approach
- Documentation review and the project team
- Determining the approach and focus areas
- Assessment planning tools
- Identifying threats, opportunities, and problems
Section Three: Conduct The Assessment
- Assessment process
- Conducting interviews
- Tools and processes for conducting interviews and questionnaires
- Analyzing project data, metrics, processes
- Affinity diagramming
- Prioritization of threats, opportunities and problems
Section Four: Developing the Stabilization Plan
- Translation process
- Executing risk, problem and opportunity management plans
- Skills transfer
- Implementing project control metrics tracking
- Inchstone planning
- Addressing the people, process, product and timing
- Stabilization conceptual overview
Section Five: Conduct the Stabilization
- Executing, monitoring and updating the inchstone plan
- Techniques for prioritizing threats, opportunities, and problems
- Rebaselining the project plan
- Implementing project control metrics
- Establish A Continuous Improvement Framework
- Project management skills and methodology
- Tools and Project Office
- Outside planning and assessment
- Avoid classic mistakes
- Establishing a plan for continuous improvement