Managing Projects without Projects Managing You MD144
Price varies by session or location
Creating a good project plan and getting your stakeholders on board is a time-consuming task, yet necessary to ensure that your project meets the sponsors’ expectations – and that you and the project are successful. However, the real work comes when you finish planning and actually begin the project. People problems, schedule changes, budget reductions, scope creep, resource conflicts, communication challenges, AWOL project sponsors, corporate politics, accountability without authority – and it all looked so simple on the plan!
Building on the tools in MD142: "Basic Tools of Project Management," this workshop presents the people and process management approaches to overcome the "real world" obstacles you will face as project lead. Completing your projects – on time and under budget – will become a reality as you navigate the bumps in the road with the real world solutions in this program.
Key Topics
Participants will return to their workplace with a foundational understanding of the project management discipline and know the answers to questions like these:
- Do I really have to be an expert in project management to be a successful project manager?
- What is a project and how do I know when it is done?
- How do I deal with all of the accountability without any of the formal authority?
- How do I build a project team and keep it together?
- What is "scope creep" and how do I deal with it?
- How do I measure the ROI of a project?
- How do I maintain control of the project without being a nag?
- How do I do my regular job in addition to being a part of this project team?
Special Features
The "I’m going to manage this project so that it doesn't manage me!" Project Management Planner
Instructor
Thomas Horvath