Course Description
Avoid being caught off guard by change, and prepare yourself with ways to optimize your team's performance and manage the unknown.
Managing a complex project means not only having fantastic project management skills, but also understanding how to deal with the chaos of today's workplace. Technology, requirements, partnerships, and competitive strategies are continually updating and transforming and a strong project manager must learn how to adapt to these changes while leading the project to successful completion. This class will help you master dealing with these complexities and lead with success.
Learn to determine the level of complexity of your project, develop tactics to manage that complexity, and discover strategies for taking your project team "to the edge of chaos" where innovation and creativity happen. In class activities that comprise 75% of this course, you will practice determining complexity and learn how to keep your approach flexible to manage the constant adjustment of complex projects in today's workplace.
In this course, you will learn how to:
Systems thinking and project management
Chaos theory and project management
Skills needed to lead a complex project
Complexity theory and how to assess your project complexity
Right structure for complex projects
Assessing risk for complex projects
Who should attend this course:
Project managers
IT project managers
Project leaders
Senior project managers
Program managers who have senior responsibility for high-risk, high-dollar, high-reward projects and programs
In Class Exercises:
Develop Your Personal Mastery Plan
Assess Project Complexity
Stakeholder Analysis and Planning
Risk Identification and Response Planning
OBS
Substitution & Cancellation Policy:
You may cancel or reschedule up to 21 days prior to the start date of the class at no penalty. For any cancellation or reschedule requests within 21 days, the full course tuition is still due and not eligible for refund. Any paid tuition will be credited towards a future class and must be used within 12 months.
*Partner delivered courses may be subject to different cancellation terms
Agenda
1. The Complex Project
Systems Thinking
Chaos and Complexity Theory
How these relate to project management
2. Leading Complex Projects
Skills required
Complex project competency self-assessment
PMI competencies
Start personal mastery plan
3. Fundamentals of Complexity Theory
What is complexity?
Types of complexity
Fitness landscape
Chaos as it relates to complexity theory
Complexity theory
Linear and non-linear systems
Complex adaptive systems
4. Assessing Your Project Complexity
Complex project toolkit
Elements of project complexity
Organization breakdown structure
Work breakdown structure
Use the complexity assessment tool (CAT)
Strategies of planning and managing complex projects
5. Structuring Your Project for Success
Selecting the right project management methodology
How to incorporate that methodology into your current processes
6. Risk Planning and Management
Types of risks in complex projects
Approaches to identification
Risk assessment and response planning
7. Leading Complex Projects
Assess your leadership competencies
Applying adaptive leadership to complex projects
Communicating a vision
Implementing strategies to encourage innovation and build a cohesive team
Types of personal behaviors and how to get the most out of people
Identifying techniques for leveraging complexity