How to Improve your Project Success Rate

The Challenge
When we commit money, materials and time to projects we expect to get a reasonable return on our investment. This simply cannot happen if the projects are not successful. Unfortunately, many of our projects (and especially Information Technology projects) fail to meet all of their objectives or even fail outright, leaving us with investments gone bad. Especially in these troubled economic times there is no room for this kind of financial loss. What can we do to ensure that our project investment pays off?

The Solution
First the good news: it is absolutely true that project success can be the norm in your organization. Even better, the means for doing this is available to your management team today. Proven techniques are available to ensure that every project is a good investment, appropriate resources are committed, the work is properly planned and executed and management is fully informed of accurate status throughout. This management workshop explains how it can be done. It presents specific steps that your organization can take to make its project portfolio a cornerstone of the enterprise.

Who should attend
This management workshop will benefit anyone who wants to get the most out of every project dollar: CEO, CFO, COO, CIO, other Senior Executives, PMO Director, Functional Managers and Executives with project responsibility, Portfolio Managers, and anyone who uses projects to execute Business Strategy.

Learning Objectives – Understand the following:

The fundamental importance of projects
Nature of project success
Importance of Business Value
How every project is an investment
Place of Portfolio Management (PPM) in managing the enterprise
Why PPM is critical to any business
How to fund the right projects at the right time
Project and business objectives – assigning accountability
Functions of the project pipeline
Pipeline management
Factors that drive project success
How project management improves the bottom line
Project Management Best Practices
Management Best Practices

Learning Approach

A highly experienced instructor will use an interactive lecture format, 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 future projects.
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.

Why should I take this workshop?

How to Improve your Project Success Rate provides managers with unique insights into why projects succeed and how to make project success the norm. Attendees should be able to make immediate use of the practical steps presented in this workshop.
Engage in this management training and learn what you can do to ensure that your projects support your strategy, and your organization fully supports the success of every project.
Learn what you can do to enhance the Business Value that projects deliver.

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: 1724
Duration: Half Day
Class size: 6 - 40
Includes:
· PMP® certified instruction
· Student Guide
· Participation Certificate
· 3 PDUs

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Pricing Information
On-site discounts are available.

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