Course : Project Management, advanced

Project Management, advanced






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IN-HOUSE
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  2d - 14h00
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Teaching objectives
At the end of the training, the participant will be able to:
Build, present, and justify your project's budget
Incorporate constraints and recommend solutions
Ensure the cohesion and motivation of the project team
Manage conflicts and discrepancies while ensuring a shared vision
Guide stakeholders through periods of change

Practical details
Hands-on work
Building and presenting a project budget and the corresponding reporting dashboard. Planning and managing change requests.

Course schedule

1
Project budget and profitability

  • Building a business case: the expected product or service, its risks, and its benefits.
  • Justifying the project's cost: cost of the investment, calculating ROI.
  • Reporting expenses: measuring costs the easy way and justifying them.
  • Living with evolving forecasts: dealing with changes in needs.
  • Dashboards and tracking changes.
Case study
Building and presenting a project budget and the corresponding reporting dashboard. Planning and managing change requests.

2
Timeframes and decisions

  • Reconciling realism and adherence to goals, building the project.
  • Knowing how to present and defend your project.
  • Gradual and adaptive planning.
  • Gradually defining feasible, motivational goals, and measuring productivity.
  • Tracking deadlines and decisions.
Case study
Adapting a project plan to an external time constraint. Building a phase's schedule. Handling a difficult situation and defending your solution.

3
Leading a team towards the project's goals.

  • Accommodating and motivating.
  • Conflicts and discrepancies.
  • Productivity, quality, time, and convergence.
Case study
Internal and external resources, choice and harmonization. Incorporating a specialist. An observed decline in productivity.

4
Closing the project

  • Steps.
  • Acceptance in projects, and what is needed to compare the expected functions.
  • Closing and ending the project.
  • Associating actors with the close of the project.

5
Winning with the company

  • The involvement of superiors.
  • Sensing real needs: difficulty by users in expressing themselves, misunderstanding of the subject by the project.
  • Communicating a vision within the company.
  • Managing change: setting up permanent listening for foreseeable deployment difficulties.
  • Helping the company learn the results of the project.
Case study
In a case study, the participants will cover real questions asked to the project manager. Their proposals are compared to the rules and recommendations of project management standards.