People in Projects: Foundation for Project Success

• Learn factors that can make or break a project or program
• Bring a Business Perspective into your projects
• Appreciate the importance of the project environment
• Understand the true value in each project role
• Discover how to hold effective meetings in your organization
• Learn how everyone can win the Estimation Game
• Discover how to make Opportunities appear in a sea of project risk
• Fighting resistance to change; obtaining Organizational Adoption
• Find out how to turn Lessons Recorded into Lessons Learned
• Learn what you can do to create a Culture of Success

Introduction

• Sources of project success
• Human Factors at work
• Why people are the source of project success and failure
• Critical role of the Project Manager
• Leveraging the power of each project role
• How to survive in a dysfunctional organizational culture

Project Initiation

• Human Factors approach to defining a project
• Distinguishing project objectives from Business Value
• Surviving the lunacy of project estimation
• Managing expectations
• The Project Charter – essential tool for gaining consensus

Project Planning

• Objectives, Best Practice and Roles
• A Human Factors view of project planning
• Enhanced Stakeholder Analysis
• Good Meetings Practice
• The Leader / Manager in each of us
• The Energized Project Team
• Client Rapport
• Impact of organizational culture on project planning

Project Execution & Control

• Objectives, Best Practices and Roles
• A Human Factors view of project execution and control
• Effective Project Status
• Finding Opportunity in a Sea of Risk
• Leading people to embrace change
• Getting decisions when you need them
• Impact of culture on project execution and control

Project Close

• Why Lessons Learned Aren't and what we can do
• Getting credit for work well done
• The Art of Celebration
• Impact of culture on Project Close

Wrap-Up Discussion

• 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 the structure and vocabulary of an effective project management practice to use in all of your future projects.
• If you have modest project management knowledge, you will find that the clarity of the material and direct presentation style of the instructor will make the subject matter easy to understand.
• You will receive a Student Guide which will help you follow the material, take notes and retain what you learned so that you can apply it on your job.
• Training includes instruction in the use of advanced Project Management templates.

• Even experienced project managers can obtain insights that will help them solve common and persistent problems.
• People in Projects delves into areas of project management that, although seldom discussed, are nonetheless central to project success. Take home a whole new set of tools and techniques.
• Take this PM training and learn what you can do to ensure that your projects get off to a great start and stays there all the way to the finish line.
• PMP®s can move beyond PMBOK® theory to find solutions to problems that they face in their projects every day.
• The exercises in this project course will give you the hands on experience you need to put new tools to immediate use.