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Best Practices for the Multi-Project Manager
Seminar Overview
Discover more effective methods for handling multiple projects. Learn how to view your projects from a variety of perspectives. From strategic direction to risk analysis, you'll look at how the best in the business attack multi-project management. 3 days. 1.8 CEU. Fee per person: $2095, $1895 for AMA members.
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Provider: AMA (American Management Association International) – $2,095
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
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Detailed Overview/Outline
Put the best concepts, tools and techniques available for multi-project management to work for you!
Discover how to balance resources across multiple projects and minimize risks while improving performance. You will examine two Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award (MBNQA) winners—and learn the best practices they share and how to put them into action in your organization. Find out the common characteristics of successful multi-project environments—such as ensuring communication from top-to-bottom and bottom-to-top…encouraging change…and establishing accountability. Who Should Attend
Project and program directors and managers, department heads, senior managers and anyone who is trying to balance resources across multiple projects.
3 days/1.8 CEUs HOW YOU WILL BENEFIT:
- Recognize the best practices in project management and how to incorporate them into your operation
- Discover how to establish an environment that supports effective 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
WHAT YOU WILL COVER:
Primary Concepts for Managing Multi-Projects
- Objectives of multi-project management
- Best practices for MPM success
Establishing an Environment for Success
- Best practices within the industry and within the class
- Organizational structures that support MPM
How the Program Management Office Relates to Managing Multi-Projects
- Managing inter-project coordination points
- Multi-project resource leveling
- Developing project managers
- Program/portfolio reporting
- Constructing a PMO
The Project Management Business Process
- Business process basics
- Core concepts of improvement
- The project management businessprocess: gate and process reviews
Management by Metrics
- Characteristics of successful metrics
- Collecting and reporting on the data
- Establishing a baseline and target goals
- Multi-project applications of earned value
- Applying balanced scorecard to MPM
- Queuing theory and basics
- The great project conundrum
- Resource utilization in a multi-project environment
- The theory of constraints
- Multi-project (program) critical path
Summary: Achieving Best Practices in Multi-Project Management
- Consistency in project management practices
- Cultural characteristics needed for MPM
- Organizational responsibility
Extended Description
Primary Concepts
- Understand Best Practices and the Tiers That Constitute Best Practices
- Understand How Best Practices Are Promulgated between Industries
- 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
- Implement Organizational Structures That Support MPM
- Establish Roles and Responsibilities of Project-Oriented Groups
The Program Management Office
- Know the Functions of a PMO
- Know the Construction of a PMO
- Know How to Create a PMO Charter
- Know How to Translate Business Objectives into Project Objectives
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
- Understand the Purpose and Implementation of Gate Reviews and Other Project Management 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 Concepts of a Balanced Score Card
Emerging Techniques
- Apply the Following Emerging Technologies in a Multiple-Project Environment:
- —Queuing Theory
- —The Theory of Constraints
- —Project Throttling Techniques
- —Scatter Analysis
Developing Your Own Strategy
Days: 3
CEUs: 1.8
Sponsor Background:
The American Management Association was founded in 1923. They have built a content control check into every one of their professional seminars. Plus a series of checks and balances to ensure that the content of every AMA seminar is precisely targeted to:
- 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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