Create Opportunity in Your Project NOW!

During this exceptionally uplifting and empowering treatment of Opportunity in projects, you will hear that there are plentiful Opportunities available in every project, if we know how to find them. Participants learn how numerous factors, including current project management practice and even the language we use to describe risk, actually prevent us from seeing Opportunity. Then attendees learn what they can do to make Opportunity more visible. Attendees work through a field-tested Seven Step approach to discover multiple Opportunities in their own projects. Topics include:

How opportunity enhances post-project Business Value
Two kinds of opportunity
Why we are blind to most opportunities
Introduction to more useful Risk Model
Vocabulary that supports constructive work with opportunity
Tools and techniques that support opportunity discovery
How stakeholder engagement can help surface opportunity
The Seven Step approach to identifying and leveraging opportunities

Who should attend

This advanced Risk Management course can benefit project and program managers, project leads, PMO staff, anyone who manages project managers, and functional managers with project responsibility.

Prerequisites

This training assumes some project management experience. Although no prior training is required, completion of Effective Project Management or Project Management for Technical Professionals is recommended.

Course Outline

Definition of opportunity
Standard risk model
Risk in project plans
Managing risk
Comparing opportunity with threat
How opportunity enhances project success
Two kinds of opportunity
Why opportunities are missed
How watching for threats can lead us astray
The need for better risk language
An updated model of risk
Seven Step Approach to leveraging Project Opportunity

Why should I take this course?

Create Opportunity in Your Project Now! presents a novel approach to working with project risk. The message is clear: we are not the pawns of fate; we can find opportunity even where we would least expect it.
Explore the real implications of an exciting extension of PMBOK® theory for your projects.
Take this advanced PM training and learn what you can do to make full use of the positive side of the risk spectrum.
The exercises in this project course will give you the hands on experience you need to put best practice and new tools to immediate use.

Learning Approach

In this advanced PM course, a highly experienced instructor will use interactive lecture format, hands on exercises, group discussions 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 a structure and vocabulary 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.

Every course and workshop in our Project Training program is fully customizable. We offer virtual delivery of the training program you need. Call us: +1.919.495.7371.

All of our courses are fully compliant with the latest release of each relevant standards document such as the PMBOK® Guide, Standard for Portfolio Management, BABOK® Guide, and others.

Course Information

Course ID: 3020
Duration: 1 day
Delivery: Virtual or onsite
Class size: 6 - 20
Includes:
· PMP® certified instructor
· Participant Guide
· Participation Certificate
· Risk Mgt templates
· 7 PDUs
Tech:6 Lead:1 Strat:0

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Pricing Information
On-site discounts are available.

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