Training Course Syllabus:

Strategic Project Management

Develop and successfully lead a project strategy that supports business goals.

Your immediate takeaway

• Clearly define the strategic benefits of your projects
• Prioritize projects effectively and maintain their scope over time
• Maximize resources and gain executive buy-in

Tired of constantly changing project priorities, scope creep and projects that aren’t prioritized? Are your resources stretched too thin, in too many directions? Having trouble getting consistent executive support for your projects? This seminar can change all that, and more. Get proven tools and techniques to help you ensure active and future projects are in alignment with strategic goals and business priorities. Learn how to create and lead projects that support organizational strategy—even if you’re in charge of multiple projects. Explore effective ways of proactively auditing external factors that can influence the direction for your projects. Get tools and techniques to support strategic alignment and communicating strategy to the team. Learn how to review key performance indicators and other success factors. The course will also help you to influence the viability of potential new projects.
 

How You Will Benefit

• Persuasively define the organizational value of projects
• Prioritize projects and stabilize their scope over time
• Align projects to achieve organizational objectives
• Apply techniques for optimizing project resources
• Understand how to use key financial metrics to define project priority
   

What You Will Cover

Strategies, Portfolios and Projects

• Exploring the types of projects organizations undertake, and establishing their relationship with the strategic plan

Selecting and Prioritizing Projects

• Optimizing resources using the Goals Breakdown Structure (GBS) and Organizational Goals Breakdown Structure (OGBS)
• Presenting key financial metrics for prioritizing and valuing projects
• Methods for prioritizing and valuing under constrained optimization environments
• Evaluating the cost of quality

Maximizing Resources

• Understanding the key roles in portfolio management
• Evaluating methods for diversifying risk across the portfolio or program
• “Architecting” the portfolio
• Knowing the key elements of PM needed for tracking and maintaining the portfolio
• Project scheduling and pipelining projects to balance resources

Keeping Things on Track

• Finalizing project and program definitions to ensure successful strategy implementation
• Employing Earned Value Management (EVM) to accurately track the progress of projects, programs and the portfolio
• Understanding Cost of Quality (COQ) as a key metric for tracking and for continuous improvement

Measuring Results

• Using the Balanced Scorecard framework to track project results
   

Who Should Attend

Mid to senior-level project managers with 5+ years of PM experience; program managers; portfolio managers; project management office (PMO) staff.

Credits:

1.2 CEU

GSA Cost available for this seminar.  Request GSA cost

Training Seminar Time: 

9:00 AM-5:00 PM (last day ends at 4:30 PM)

Seminar Summary:

Develop and successfully lead a project strategy that supports business goals. (see full course description)

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