Managing and Steering Complex Projects

Course Info

Length: 2 Weeks

City: London

Type: In Classroom

Available Dates

  • Jan-06-2025

    London

  • Mar-03-2025

    London

  • May-05-2025

    London

  • July-07-2025

    London

  • Sep-01-2025

    London

  • Nov-03-2025

    London

Dates in Other Venues

  • Dec-30-2024

    Barcelona

  • Dec-30-2024

    Amsterdam

  • Feb-03-2025

    Dubai

  • Mar-03-2025

    Istanbul

  • Mar-03-2025

    Singapore

  • Mar-03-2025

    Paris

  • Mar-03-2025

    Barcelona

  • Mar-03-2025

    Kuala Lumpur

  • Mar-03-2025

    Amsterdam

  • Apr-07-2025

    Dubai

  • June-02-2025

    Amsterdam

  • June-02-2025

    Paris

  • June-02-2025

    Istanbul

  • June-02-2025

    Kuala Lumpur

  • June-02-2025

    Barcelona

  • June-02-2025

    Dubai

  • June-02-2025

    Singapore

  • Aug-04-2025

    Dubai

  • Sep-01-2025

    Amsterdam

  • Sep-01-2025

    Barcelona

  • Sep-01-2025

    Paris

  • Sep-01-2025

    Singapore

  • Sep-01-2025

    Istanbul

  • Sep-01-2025

    Kuala Lumpur

  • Oct-06-2025

    Dubai

  • Dec-01-2025

    Barcelona

  • Dec-01-2025

    Paris

  • Dec-01-2025

    Singapore

  • Dec-01-2025

    Istanbul

  • Dec-01-2025

    Dubai

  • Dec-01-2025

    Kuala Lumpur

  • Dec-01-2025

    Amsterdam

Course Details

Course Outline

10 days course

 

Introduction to Steering Complex Projects
 
  • The project initialisation

  • The project planning

  • Design of project plans, cost estimates and budgets

  • Planning of project quality, personnel deployment and communication channels

 

 Projects as Strategic Change
 
  • Understand the strategic goals of the organisation and articulate what the project outcomes will contribute to the strategy

  • Understand the political process of creating project goals, including negotiating and seeking win-win coalitions

  • Translate high level strategic goals into project goals

 

Execution Projects
 
  • Identify the key characteristics of execution projects

  • Understand the managerial relevance of the critical path and limitations

  • Identify uncertainties and take mitigative or responsive actions

 

 Novel Projects
 
  • Identify the key characteristics of novel projects and the technical steps of managing them

  • Articulate steps to follow when encountering unforeseeable uncertainty

  • Understand pivoting/iterating and parallelism, and how to incorporate them into project planning and monitoring

 Change Projects
 
  • Identify the four methods for managing a change project

  • Generate guidelines for managing the social dimensions of change

  • Author a template for stakeholder management

 

 Managing People and Teams
 
  • Identify and apply ingredients of goal clarity and three criteria for them

  • Articulate competency-driven values for a project

  • Analyse how to deal with rule-breakers and high-performers and establish related guidelines

 

Governance

 

  • Understand the role governance plays in maintaining strategic alignment in projects

  • Identify the five elements of well-designed governance structures

  • Build a framework for managing the governance structure with accountability measures

 

Partners
 
  • Understand what contracts can and cannot do, and identify the four different types of contracts for an appropriate fit

  • Understand the role that co-location can play in project management

  • Understand how renegotiation must be built into the contract from the beginning

 

 

Project Communications 
 
  • Channels & Models

  • Communications Management Plan

  • Manage Communications

  • Monitor Communications

  • Solutions 

 

Learning and Integration
 
  • Identify the tools for each project type, and how to deploy them

  • Make informed choices from the portfolio of tools to ensure projects encourage learning within the organisation

  • 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

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