Programme Content
Module 1: Projects as strategic change
Understand the strategic goals of an organisation and articulate what project outcomes contribute to strategy.
Explore the politics of creating project goals including negotiating and seeking win-win coalitions.
Translate high-level strategic goals into project goals.
Module 2: Execution projects
Identify the characteristics of execution projects.
Understand the relevance of the critical path and limitations.
Identify uncertainties and take mitigating actions.
Module 3: Novel projects
Learn the key characteristics of novel projects and the techniques to manage them.
Explore how to deal with uncertainty.
Discover how to incorporate pivoting, iterating and parallelism into project planning.
Module 4: Change projects
Identify the 4 methods for managing a change project.
Generate guidelines for managing the social dimensions of change.
Author a template for stakeholder management.
Module 5: Managing people and teams
Identify the ingredients and criteria of goal clarity.
Articulate competency-driven values.
Analyse how to deal with and set guidelines for rule-breakers and high-performers.
Module 6: Governance
Understand the role of governance in maintaining strategic alignment on projects.
Identify the 5 elements of well-designed governance structures.
Build a framework for managing governance structures with accountability measures.
Module 7: Partners
Identify the 4 types of contracts and explore what they can and cannot do.
Understand the role that co-location plays in project management.
Explore how and why renegotiation must be built into a contract.
Module 8: Learning and integration
Identify the tools for each project type and how to deploy them.
Make informed choices from these tools to ensure projects encourage learning.
Apply established methods of knowledge exchange and learning tools in a way that is appropriate to your project.
