Managing Projects Across the Organization

Course Description:

Managing Projects Across the Organization is a course to help you manage without a full-time team. The focus of this course is on getting the job done while juggling technology, management demands, multiple stakeholders, and customer requirements. You will learn essential project management concepts and practical skills, and become familiar with immediately applicable tools through the extensive exercises in this course. If managing projects is only one of your many hats, then this course is for you.

Objectives:

On completion of this course, students will have a clear understanding of how to complete projects without a full-time project team. They will be equipped with the knowledge, tools and techniques required to deal with the issues which come from being responsible for managing projects when they do not have line authority. Using the model of how a typical project evolves, students will follow its development from initiation and planning through control, execution and closure. They will investigate the relationships among these processes and build their skills through group discussion and extensive exercises. These exercises will lead them through the critical steps in project management while providing them with the opportunity to develop methods that will be immediately applicable to their own projects.

Duration:

2 days

Course Outline:

Day 1

Introduction
Project Management Fundamentals
Starting Projects
Planning Approach
Defining the Work
Defining the Schedule

Day 2

Planning
Resource Planning
Cost Planning
Setting the Baseline
Executing & Controlling Projects
Cost, Schedule and Scope Monitoring
Team Development
Closing the Project

Class Size:

SOMOS experience has shown the optimal class size to be between 14 and 20 students. This enables proper interaction between the participants and the instructor.

Course Materials:

Course participants will be provided with the following course materials:

Course notes
Exercise booklet

Target Audience:

Managers who want a practical course in project management, but who do not require PMP certification
Managers who have to get some or all of their project objectives done through others
New managers with limited project management experience

Prerequisites:

None

Registration Information:

This course is offered to groups of 15 or more.

If you would like to discuss your organization's management development needs with a SOMOS account executive, please click here or call 613-592-5050 x229.

Refer to course code 2PAO00 - Managing Projects Across the Organization