Advanced Project Management for the Experienced Practitioner

• Sources of project success and failure
• Dealing with the Human Element
• Distinguishing project and business objectives
• Importance of Business Value
• Four levels of project success
• Managing Stakeholder Expectations
• Organizational Adoption – Ensuring deliverables are used effectively
• Complete and Correct Requirements
• Winning the Estimation Game
• Controlling project change
• How to Choose Project Metrics that Make Sense
• Creating Opportunity in Your Projects
• Project Transition: Delivering the Goods

• Source of project success and failure
• Dealing with the Human Element
• Many views of the project
• Project as investment
• Product lifecycle
• Business Value as a driver of project practice
• Four levels of project success
• Enhanced definition of Project Management

• The Project Environment
• Getting a project off to a good start
• Defining the project investment
• Distinguishing project and business objectives
• Designing a project charter that works

• Identifying stakeholders
• Managing Stakeholder Expectations
• Organizational Adoption – Ensuring deliverables are used effectively

• Winning the Estimation Game
• Creating Opportunity in your projects
• Developing complete and correct requirements
• Controlling change to protect time and cost objectives
• How to choose project metrics that Make Sense
• Project Transition: Delivering the Goods

• The exercises in this course will give you the hands on experience you need to put the tools presented to immediate use.
• You have the option of using your own, ongoing project as the focus of class exercises. As a result, not only do you gain experience with the tools, but you also learn more about your project.
• Experienced project managers will obtain insights that should help them solve common and persistent problems.
• All participants take home a set of tools and techniques to help them deal with all aspects of project planning and execution.

• A highly experienced instructor will use interactive lecture format, numerous hands-on exercises, team activities, group discussions, individual discovery and other techniques to drive home the essential points of this material.
• We will build on your prior experience in this topic, while providing you with numerous advanced tools and techniques that you can put to use as soon as you get home.
• You will receive a Participant Guide which will help you follow the material, take notes and retain what you learned so that you can apply it on your job.