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Best Practices for the Multi-Project Manager

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$2,095

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Provider:
AMA (American Management Association International)

Topic(s):
Leadership & Management > Project Management

Who Should Attend?
Project and program directors and managers who are working on multiple projects simultaneously; department heads; senior managers

• Improving Your Project Management Skills: The Basics for Success
• AMA's Comprehensive Project Management Workshop

Full Seminar Description

Put the best concepts, tools and techniques available for multi-project management to work for you and your organization!

Ace multiple-project assignments by balancing time and resources. This updated seminar provides you with examples of best practices within the profession. Learn how to develop a culture for consistent, standardized Multi-Project Management (MPM) practices, utilize proven metrics for MPM performance and implement innovative tools and techniques for successful completion of multiple projects.

How You Will Benefit

• Align work and projects with the strategic direction of the organization
• Keep projects on track and on budget
• Set and maintain priorities
• Improve communication on all projects
• Increase your effectiveness and efficiency
• Determine your organization's ability to conduct additional projects

What You Will Cover

Projects and the Enterprise

• Describe the role projects play within the organization
• Demonstrate how projects act as change agents in the organization
• Identify techniques to prioritize projects effectively

Project Resourcing

• Describe how to allocate the necessary resources to projects
• How to negotiate for the right resources to get your projects done
• Determine the ability of the organization to take on more projects
• Identify MPM tools and practices required for success
• The vital importance of utilization in the context of MPM
• How to effectively gain the resources your projects require
• Multitasking and its effect on project outcomes

Standardizing the Approach to Project Communications

• Using a standard communication plan across all projects
• Running an effective meeting as a multi-project manager
• Characteristics of successful meetings

Measuring Project Metrics

• Identify effective project reporting techniques
• How to reduce and streamline administrative work
• Characteristics of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
• Develop and Track KPIs to assess a project's 'health'
• How to use dashboards and other tools to measure project success

Effectively Managing Stakeholders

• How best to maintain project expectations
• Why stakeholder management is important
• The different types and roles of stakeholders
• Define the role of project communications planning
• Describe how changes to the project impacts stakeholder expectations

Summary: Achieving Best Practices in Multi-Project Management

• Consistency in project management practices
• Cultural characteristics needed for MPM
• Organizational responsibility

Who Should Attend

Extended Seminar Outline

Learning Objectives

• Recognize the best practices in project management and how to ncorporate them into your operation
• Discover how to establish an environment that spports efective multi-project management
• Optimize resources across projects and other business processes
• Support your organization's core values and strategic direction
• Learn how to provide for continuous project improvement
• Discover the benefits of a project management office, steering committee and gate review teams

Primary Concepts

• Understand best practices
• Learn core concepts of project management that migrate to multi-project management
• Know your own targets in multi-project management
• Understand the tools necessary to establish an environment that supports multi-project management

Establishing an Environment for Success

• Determine characteristics of successful environments
• Establish an environment for success
• Establish roles and responsibilities of project-oriented groups

The Project Management Business Process

• Know the source of business improvement
• Know how to handle and encourage improvement in a business environment
• Understand the purpose and characteristics of project management methodologies
• Know how to integrate project management with other business processes

Management by Fact

• Understand how the best companies apply metrics to a business environment
• Understand your skills in applying metrics
• Know how to develop or enhance your own metrics in your own environment
• Understand the power of earned value management

Developing Your Own Strategy

Sponsor Background:

• provide comprehensive, hands-on training that is of practical use when you return to the job
• focus on need-to-know specifics, relevant to the demands of global business today
• offer the expertise and personalized attention of top-ranking instructors
• facilitate your career development and business savvy

Whether you're looking for a solid foundation of business fundamentals or strategies to help you seize growth opportunities for your company, AMA offers expert instruction to help you:

• manage your priorities effectively
• cultivate more productive working relationships
• increase your on-the-job value
• align your skills with marketplace demands
• bring out the best in people, processes and yourself

Cancellation and Refund Policy

If you cannot attend a seminar you may contact AMA in advance to transfer to a future session, or can send someone to take your place. If you need to cancel your attendance, AMA will give you a complete refund if you cancel more than three weeks before your seminar begins. To cancel, simply call. If you cancel with less than three weeks' notice, you will be liable for the entire seminar fee, however you may request a courtesy transfer to use at any future AMA seminar of equal or lesser value. The courtesy transfer must be used within one year of the date of your originally scheduled seminar. In fairness to all attendees, if you do not attend a seminar session for which you are confirmed, and do not cancel with a minimum of three weeks’ notice as described above, you will be charged the entire seminar fee.

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