Managing and Steering Complex Projects

Course Info

Length: 2 Weeks

Type: Online

Available Dates

Fees

  • Jan-20-2025

    2,900

  • Feb-17-2025

    2,900

  • Mar-17-2025

    2,900

  • Apr-21-2025

    2,900

  • May-19-2025

    2,900

  • June-16-2025

    2,900

  • July-21-2025

    2,900

  • Aug-18-2025

    2,900

  • Sep-15-2025

    2,900

  • Oct-20-2025

    2,900

  • Nov-17-2025

    2,900

  • Dec-15-2025

    2,900

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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