Setting Up Projects for Success

Workshop Overview

Learn the "guerrilla tactics" required to make projects successful.

Create a more conducive work environment for your Project Managers and project teams.

Up-skill yourself and learn about the important techniques of:

• Success and Satisfaction
• Project Satisfaction Barometer
• Critical Success Factors (CSF)
• Technical Project Management Activities
• Project Management Levers of Control
• Managing Expectations
• Phase Zero
• Using Two Project Managers
• Stakeholder Assessments
• Project Team Organisation
• Participants' Training
• Project Review Board (PRB)
• Project Management Planning Workshop (PMPW)
• Project Startup Review (PSR)
• Joint Application Development (JAD)

Take the opportunity to not only increase your professional knowledge, but also learn practical, field-proven procedures and techniques which will improve the likelihood of success for the projects on which you are currently working.

You have recognised that it is the "people aspects" of project management that are the hardest to manage.

Now what?  How do you:

• Sell project engagements so that they are profitable?
• Understand and take advantage of each project stakeholder's "hot buttons"?
• Solve the conundrum that most project management effort is required at the start of a project and there is never enough time to do it all properly?
• Get your project's Sponsor/Client to spend an appropriate amount of quality time on your project?
• Make sure that everyone is singing from the same "hymn sheet"?
• Ensure that your project has been started correctly?
• Measure your Sponsor's/Client's and team's satisfaction with the project?

Participants

This workshop is suitable for all Programme Directors, Project Managers and Project Leaders who manage business and Information Technology projects.

Learning Outcomes

After attending this workshop each participant will be able to:

• Perform stakeholder assessments
• Perform a Project Startup Review (PSR)
• Organise the project team effectively
• Manage stakeholder expectations
• Initiate projects that will have a greater probability of success

Handout Materials

1. A complete copy of all of the Microsoft® PowerPoint® slides
2. Quick reference Mind Maps for all topics
3. A copy of the book "Advanced Project Integration Management"

Facilities

Up to 16 participants can be accommodated per course.  This allows for the right amount of discussion as well as questions and answers to take place among the participants.

Learning Methods

This workshop is instructor-led, based on a series of Microsoft® PowerPoint® slides.

Spend an entertaining day thinking deeply about and debating project initiation, project planning and project integration management and the solutions to common problems.

PMI PDU Details

PDU Hours: 6

Provider Number: C115

Programme Number: 00030302

Facilitator

Robert Posener whose entertaining style as well as thought-provoking observations will keep you participating, facilitates this workshop.

Robert has been a project manager for over 30 years.  As well as establishing Project Management Offices, Robert has also managed information technology and business projects and programmes for computer hardware, software and consulting vendors as well as Clients in a variety of industries in Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, Hong Kong and USA.  Projects have spanned the full spectrum of systems integration, software development, infrastructure deployment and package acquisition, including some that have been the most high-profile IT projects in Australia.

He has been actively using Microsoft® Project since the MS-DOS version 1.0 was released in 1986.

Robert passed the Project Management Institute's (PMI®) Project Management Professional (PMP®) exam in 1998.

He has been an active member of the PMI® Sydney Chapter since 1997 and a Fellow of the International Council for Project Management Advancement (ICPMA) since 2002.  Robert is also a member of the PMI® College of Scheduling (PMICoS).  Robert has also been appointed an International Correspondent for PMForum.

Robert has facilitated the following workshops on behalf of the PMI® Sydney Chapter for over 8 years:

• Advanced Project Scheduling Using Microsoft® Project
• Setting Up Projects for Success
• Management of Third Parties (Clients and Vendors)

He has also facilitated training for Clients of The Learning Lab and Dimension Data Learning Solutions.

Robert manages projects for organisations, mentors individual Project Managers and assists organisations to improve their project, programme and practice management processes.