Course Details
Course Outline
10 days course
Introduction to Steering Complex Projects
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The project initialisation
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The project planning
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Design of project plans, cost estimates and budgets
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Planning of project quality, personnel deployment and communication channels
Projects as Strategic Change
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Understand the strategic goals of the organisation and articulate what the project outcomes will contribute to the strategy
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Understand the political process of creating project goals, including negotiating and seeking win-win coalitions
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Translate high level strategic goals into project goals
Execution Projects
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Identify the key characteristics of execution projects
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Understand the managerial relevance of the critical path and limitations
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Identify uncertainties and take mitigative or responsive actions
Novel Projects
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Identify the key characteristics of novel projects and the technical steps of managing them
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Articulate steps to follow when encountering unforeseeable uncertainty
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Understand pivoting/iterating and parallelism, and how to incorporate them into project planning and monitoring
Change Projects
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Identify the four methods for managing a change project
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Generate guidelines for managing the social dimensions of change
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Author a template for stakeholder management
Managing People and Teams
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Identify and apply ingredients of goal clarity and three criteria for them
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Articulate competency-driven values for a project
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Analyse how to deal with rule-breakers and high-performers and establish related guidelines
Governance
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Understand the role governance plays in maintaining strategic alignment in projects
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Identify the five elements of well-designed governance structures
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Build a framework for managing the governance structure with accountability measures
Partners
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Understand what contracts can and cannot do, and identify the four different types of contracts for an appropriate fit
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Understand the role that co-location can play in project management
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Understand how renegotiation must be built into the contract from the beginning
Project Communications
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Channels & Models
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Communications Management Plan
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Manage Communications
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Monitor Communications
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Solutions
Learning and Integration
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Identify the tools for each project type, and how to deploy them
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Make informed choices from the portfolio of tools to ensure projects encourage learning within the organisation
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Apply established methods of knowledge exchange and learning tools in a way that is appropriate to the challenges of a project Monitoring and control of project risks, contract management
