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Provider:
ESI International
Topic(s):
Leadership & Management
Who Should Attend?
Experienced Project managers
Full Seminar Description
This seminar provides a systematic approach to assess project complexity and to deploy the best approaches and techniques to achieve success. Learn how to apply the concepts of complexity science to project management and how to use the sponsor's Complex Project Complexity Indicator to assess your project's true complexity level. 3 days. 22.5 PDUs. Keywords: executive, executives, management. Fee per person: $1995.Knowledge and Competency Area:
Advanced Knowledge
Class Length: 3 Days
Class Hours: 8:30 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Learn How To
- Apply the concepts of "Complexity Science" to project management
- Use ESI’s Complex Project Complexity Indicator to assess your project’s true complexity level
- Create an innovative framework for managing project complexity using ESI’s Complex Project Management Model
- Select specific approaches and leadership techniques to increase your odds of success
Course Synopsis
Have you ever taken on a project that appeared just too complex to handle? Just trying to identify the multitude of variables to be managed, let alone to anticipate how they might interact to create unexpected challenges, can be overwhelming. So how do you determine the true complexity, with a clear understanding of the variables involved and move forward to develop a project management plan that provides the right level of control and flexibility for success?To manage the complex project requires a new way of thinking—a new approach to applying known project management techniques and tools. Managing Complex Projects provides a systematic approach to assess project complexity and to deploy the best approaches and techniques to achieve success.
You’ll learn to use ESI’s unique Complex Project Complexity Indicator and Complex Project Management Model to increase your effectiveness in managing complexity. The Complexity Indicator is used as an assessment tool to determine the actual level of project complexity as the first step in developing a project management plan. The Management Model provides valuable insight into the variables that create the complexity of your particular project. It enables you to select existing tools from a new point of view to both manage and limit that complexity—in short, to stack the odds of success in your favor!
The heart of the course is a progressive, integrated case study that gives you hands-on experience in determining the true level of project complexity and managing it from a new perspective. This course is a must for the experienced project manager who needs a leg up in managing the seemingly unmanageable!
Reminder: Participants must already have practical project management experience and an understanding of project management tools and techniques.
Course Topics
Introduction to Managing Complex Projects- Elements of complexity theory
- Complexity
- Self-organization
- Nonlinear dynamics
- Open/closed systems
- Leadership approaches and techniques
- Competencies
- Behaviors
- Leadership styles
ESI’s Complex Project Complexity Indicator
- Complexity indicator methodology
- Project agents, indicators and triggers
- Applying the indicator
ESI’s Complex Project Management Model
- Knowledge of complexity
- Communication
- Leadership
- Project management
Planning for Complex Projects
- Initial area of order
- Planning for complexity
- Emergence and self-organization process
- Planning tools
- Risk analysis and response planning
- Change management
- Decision structures
Applying ESI’s Complex Project Management Model
- Developing an innovative framework as the basis of your project management plan
- Strengthening project management execution and control in light of complexity
- Selection of appropriate tools and techniques
PMBOK™ knowledge areas:
- Project Integration Management
- Project Scope Management
- Project Quality Management
- Project Time Management
- Project Cost Management
- Project Risk Management
- Project Human Resource Management
- Project Procurement Management
- Project Communications Management
Professional Development Units (PDUs): 22.5
Sponsor Background:
In 1989, ESI and The George Washington University School of Business and Public Management initiated the Project Management Professional Development Program as a corporate training program for one of the world's leading telecommunications companies.As the demand for project management expertise increased, ESI began offering public courses.
To date, more than 250,000 students from 50 countries around the world have benefited from the courses. As a result, our Project Management Professional Development Program has achieved the distinction of being the world's most comprehensive education program for building project management knowledge and skills.
Discounts and Payment Policy
Receive 10 percent off your registration when you sign up for two or more classes or you register yourself and a friend for the same course at the same time. You must sign up for the courses at the same time and pay in advance. Course discounts do not apply toward The Project Advantage course, the PMP Exam Preparation course or any e-training course.
In case of a course cancellation, substitutions can be arranged. Double Deal discounts cannot be applied to any past classes and are not applicable to e-training courses, the PMP Exam Preparation course or The ProjectAdvantage.
Past Participants Include:
- Abbott Labs
- Amoco Corporation
- AMTRAK
- Bank of America
- The Boeing Company
- Dell Computers
- FedEx
- The Gillette Company
- Hewlett-Packard
- IBM
- Oracle
- Shell Oil
- US Postal Service
- World Bank
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