Duration

2 days

Course Outline

This course is intended for senior managers of project organisations to strategically manage at project macro-level. This course covers senior management cases and issues on streamlining project operations, improving accountability and standardisation, including having a common project management language. The course is carefully designed to provide the best mix of experience, theory and practice in an adult learning environment. Formal presentations will be brief and used mainly to introduce key concepts and significant elements of strategic project management planning, monitoring and control. Emphasis is on practical applications through group-based discussions, case-studies and scenario-type learning. This will require a high level of participation and managerial feedback. Maximum opportunities will be given to participants to inject their own examples and issues into the course and continually relate the material to their own contexts.

Objectives

Check and determine existing project management system of processes are adequate for business need of the project organisation.
Embrace world-accepted project management standard and guidelines.
Recognise roles, and provide support to project teams.
Provide participants quick working knowledge of interpreting project management reports and graphs
Managerial knowledge and key issues when starting a project, administer timelines, costing and budgeting, and tracking project progress.
Reading project performance “warning signals” during project execution.
Bringing people to a successful change transition.

The Course Structure

This course is spread over two days (9.00am – 5.00pm) with two 15-mins tea breaks, and an hour lunch break.

DAY 1

Management considerations on:

Functional-matrix-projectised organisation hierarchies.

Roles and responsibilities

Project management stakeholders and their implications on projects.

Stakeholder conflicts of interest, and how to resolve them.

Executive support for projects.

Executive management leadership in projects.

Setting up a Project Management Office (PMO), and its roles.

The recognised standard in Project Management system and processes:

The project life cycle – initiation-planning-execution-control-closeout phases.

The ten knowledge areas within PMBOK – scope, time, cost, quality, risk, human resource, communications, procurement, stakeholder, and integration.

Corporate standard/guidelines for Project Management.

Executive management role in projects:

Defining executive management, project manager and team member roles, accountability, and responsibilities.

Determining the project team - selecting project manager and team members – personality profiling to match job requirements using McClelland three needs theory.

DAY 2

Coaching and mentoring, including team development initiatives.

Managing the change transitioning using ADKAR change model

Understanding performance tracking reporting using Earned Value Management

Project Management Failures And Successes (Malaysia/International) Case Studies

Training Approach

The tempo of the training is light-hearted and fast-paced. Our experience suggests that this makes people actually look forward to attending our training sessions and reinforces the motivational effects.

Methodology

Presentation and real case studies.

Programme scope, delivery arrangements and suitability are confirmed during enquiry.