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Complex Project Management

Achieving Success on the Edge of Chaos
 
Course: 287   Duration: 4 Days   PMI: 23
 
 

You Will Learn How To

  • Manage complex projects involving strategic risks and aggressive time scales
  • Incorporate the emerging science of complexity thinking into your project management strategies
  • Apply a unique complexity assessment model and an adaptive four-step process to strategic projects
  • Minimise uncertainty by leveraging best practices from Critical Chain, Agile and Lean approaches
  • Lead adaptive teams and exploit opportunities for project performance and product innovation
  • Build a strategic project management toolkit to establish yourself as a thought leader within your organisation

Course Benefits

Emerging sciences of complexity, chaos and agility provide new models and strategies to improve the conventional approaches to project management. Through an intensive four-day project simulation, you experience real-world situations in which your recommendations and decisions impact the outcome of your project. You also develop a toolkit of templates and productivity tools for use back at work.

Who Should Attend

Anyone managing, preparing or aspiring to manage large-scale, strategic or complex projects. Experience at the level of Course 296, "Project Management: Skills for Success", or Course 340, "Project Management for Software Development", is recommended.

RealityPlus™

Through an authentic case study simulation, you gain experience managing business issues in a complex project. Activities include:
  • Identifying the limits of conventional project management
  • Analysing the components of a complex project
  • Applying a complexity assessment model to a realistic case study
  • Building an adaptive project management plan using a four-step process
  • Decomposing a complex programme into manageable components
  • Delivering probabilistic estimations
  • Optimising your project with Critical Chain, Agile and Lean best practices
  • Tracking lessons learned for improvement

Related Courses

  • 286 Project Risk Management
  • 299 Microsoft Project 2007 Comprehensive Introduction
  • 346 Project Team Leadership
  • 276 Preparing for the PMP Exam
  • 177 PRINCE2® Practitioner Certification
  • 923 Project Budgeting and Estimating
  • 3620 Managing Global Projects

 
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2-5 AprLondon
28-31 AugLondon
22-25 JanLondon

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0800 282 353 or +44 1372 364610
Productivity through Education®
 
 

Complex Project Management

Achieving Success on the Edge of Chaos
 
Course: 287   Duration: 4 Days   PMI: 23
 
 
Course Content
 

Considering the Limits of Conventional Project Management

  • Charting the evolution of project management
  • Stretching the limits of conventional project management
  • Rethinking the future of project management

Defining Complexity Science, Chaos Theory and Project Complexity Factors

Introducing complexity science and chaos theory

  • Exploring foundational shifts in philosophy and science
  • Comparing and contrasting simple and complex systems
  • Appreciating the implications for project management

Adopting the four-dimensional project complexity diagnostic tool

  • Analysing project boundary conditions to understand the complexity of your project
  • Determining the edge of chaos where your project team is most productive
  • Assessing the significance of complex project risks
  • Communicating project complexity factors to others

Employing an Adaptive Project Management Process

Beginning with systems engineering

  • Building with Agile software development
  • Integrating the Cynefin Framework, scientific method, the Deming cycle and combat operations loop

The four-step adaptive project management process

  • Implementing the four steps and putting it all together
  • Overcoming complexity one step at a time

Minimising Scale on Strategic Projects

Aligning with corporate strategy and value engineering

  • Executing portfolio management strategies
  • Making the business case and delivering value

Employing adaptive requirements and change management processes

  • Running adaptive project iterations and delivering product increments
  • Managing change and ensuring quality among dynamic user needs

Managing Pace on Complex Projects

Maintaining control through speed and agility

  • Dealing with daily disruptions
  • Employing fast-tracking and crashing
  • Compressing the critical path

Assessing Critical Chain, Lean and Kanban

  • Evaluating Critical Chain project management
  • Integrating Lean, Value Stream Mapping, Kanban and Kaizen

Exercising Strong Leadership

Leading adaptive teams

  • Developing your core competencies as a complex project manager
  • Growing your sphere of influence and managing office politics

Building CRACK teams

  • Facilitating emergent organisation and self-management
  • Agreeing on command intent, objectives, values and ground rules
  • Empowering and motivating the team
  • Implementing effective feedback loops

Recognising and Managing Risks

Implementing probabilistic estimating tools and techniques

  • Managing precision and accuracy
  • Correcting estimating bias and reducing variability
  • Revisiting the cone of uncertainty and order of magnitude estimating
  • Leveraging PERT, Monte Carlo and Agile techniques

Identifying and managing risks with scenario modelling

  • Quantifying and mitigating risk threats
  • Exploiting risk opportunities for disruptive innovation

Building Your Complex Project Management Toolkit

  • Assessing the complexity of your projects
  • Mapping your transition to adaptive project management
  • Anticipating challenges and risks
  • Overcoming organisational resistance
  • Building your personal action plan
 
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0800 282 353 or +44 1372 364610
Productivity through Education®
 
 

Complex Project Management

Achieving Success on the Edge of Chaos
 
Course: 287   Duration: 4 Days   PMI: 23
 
 
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