Effective Project Management in the Public sector

Course Overview

This training course is for experienced project managers to examine advanced project and program management techniques, building on the basics to help ensure success even for large and risky projects and programs. This program stresses project management processes as an integral part of organizational culture and what senior management must do to support it and make it successful within an organization.

Project scope management and stakeholder analysis work continue to improve across the project and program management discipline. Learn the newest tools and technologies for handling stakeholders, and building quality into your project.

Learn the newest concepts and techniques for project planning, estimating, and scheduling. Discover how queuing theory, the Theory of Constraints (Critical Chain Project Management), and other advanced concepts can help you develop solid, reliable, efficient, and effective project plans.

Continue your development with advanced program risk and uncertainty analysis. Learn strategies for handling uncertainty, discover the network effects of project risks, and discover advanced methods for identifying and qualifying project and program risks.

Course Objectives:

At the end of this course, the participants will be able to:

Improve risk management throughout the project life cycle
Track projects with solid metrics, not with speculation
Handle the difficult vendors in a better way
Improve time and cost estimation for risky and challenging projects
Reduce cost and schedule risks using advanced, proven techniques
Report progress even on complex and risky projects
Improve stakeholder communication and involvement
Understand and master the people skills needed for effective project management
Develop skills to communicate horizontally across functional levels and vertically with senior levels of management
Define project objectives and assignments
Utilize scheduling methods and tools to support project control and analysis
·Develop and utilize risk management, contingency planning and change control
Prioritize objectives and assignments

Course Content:

Unit 1: Introduction:

Why do we do projects?
What is a project?
What is project management?
Project Delivery Systems
Life-cycle Models

Unit 2: Project Selection:

Qualitative techniques
Quantitative Techniques - Economic Evaluation
Selecting the right project manager
Project Objectives and Stakeholder Assessment - who wants what?
Identification of stakeholders
Stakeholder analysis
Management of stakeholders

Unit 3: Planning:

Task Characteristics and Duration Assessment
Planning and Scheduling Methods
Critical Path VS Critical Chain Scheduling
Resource Allocation Methods
Time-Cost Trade-off
Lead/Lag Scheduling
Critical Chain scheduling

Unit 4: Proactive Project Risk Management:

What do we mean by risk?
Risk VS Uncertainty
Attitudes towards risk
Risk identification, factors and sources
Risk analysis approaches
Qualification and quantification of probability and impact
Dealing with subjective elements of risk
Risk Strategies

Unit 5: Executing:

Lean Construction Strategies
Staff Acquisition
Team Development and Motivation
Leadership VS Management
Management Styles and Conflict Handling

Unit 6: Monitoring and Controlling:

Using Earned Value to report accomplishment
Implementing Risk Strategies
Project Closing

Targeted Groups:

Project Managers
Members of Project Offices
Project Sponsors
Functional Managers
Senior Management and Individuals Interested in Project Management