Managing and Steering Complex Projects

Course Info

Length: 2 Weeks

City: Dubai

Type: In Classroom

Available Dates

  • Apr-22-2024

    Dubai

  • May-27-2024

    Dubai

  • June-24-2024

    Dubai

  • July-22-2024

    Dubai

  • Aug-26-2024

    Dubai

  • Sep-23-2024

    Dubai

  • Oct-28-2024

    Dubai

  • Nov-25-2024

    Dubai

  • Dec-23-2024

    Dubai

Dates in Other Venues

  • Apr-01-2024

    London

  • Apr-01-2024

    Amsterdam

  • Apr-08-2024

    Kuala Lumpur

  • Apr-08-2024

    Istanbul

  • Apr-15-2024

    Paris

  • Apr-15-2024

    Singapore

  • Apr-22-2024

    London

  • Apr-29-2024

    Amsterdam

  • Apr-29-2024

    Barcelona

  • May-06-2024

    Amsterdam

  • May-06-2024

    London

  • May-13-2024

    Kuala Lumpur

  • May-13-2024

    Istanbul

  • May-20-2024

    Paris

  • May-20-2024

    Singapore

  • May-27-2024

    Barcelona

  • June-03-2024

    Amsterdam

  • June-03-2024

    London

  • June-10-2024

    Kuala Lumpur

  • June-10-2024

    Istanbul

  • June-17-2024

    Paris

  • June-17-2024

    Singapore

  • June-24-2024

    Barcelona

  • July-01-2024

    London

  • July-01-2024

    Amsterdam

  • July-08-2024

    Kuala Lumpur

  • July-08-2024

    Istanbul

  • July-15-2024

    Singapore

  • July-15-2024

    Paris

  • July-22-2024

    London

  • July-29-2024

    Amsterdam

  • July-29-2024

    Barcelona

  • Aug-05-2024

    London

  • Aug-05-2024

    Amsterdam

  • Aug-12-2024

    Istanbul

  • Aug-12-2024

    Kuala Lumpur

  • Aug-19-2024

    Singapore

  • Aug-19-2024

    Paris

  • Aug-26-2024

    Barcelona

  • Sep-02-2024

    London

  • Sep-02-2024

    Amsterdam

  • Sep-09-2024

    Istanbul

  • Sep-09-2024

    Kuala Lumpur

  • Sep-16-2024

    Singapore

  • Sep-16-2024

    Paris

  • Sep-23-2024

    London

  • Sep-30-2024

    Amsterdam

  • Sep-30-2024

    Barcelona

  • Oct-07-2024

    London

  • Oct-07-2024

    Amsterdam

  • Oct-14-2024

    Kuala Lumpur

  • Oct-14-2024

    Istanbul

  • Oct-21-2024

    Singapore

  • Oct-21-2024

    Paris

  • Oct-28-2024

    Barcelona

  • Nov-04-2024

    London

  • Nov-04-2024

    Amsterdam

  • Nov-11-2024

    Kuala Lumpur

  • Nov-11-2024

    Istanbul

  • Nov-18-2024

    Paris

  • Nov-18-2024

    Singapore

  • Nov-25-2024

    Barcelona

  • Dec-02-2024

    London

  • Dec-02-2024

    Amsterdam

  • Dec-09-2024

    Istanbul

  • Dec-09-2024

    Kuala Lumpur

  • Dec-16-2024

    Paris

  • Dec-16-2024

    Singapore

  • Dec-23-2024

    London

  • Dec-30-2024

    Amsterdam

  • Dec-30-2024

    Barcelona

Course Details

Course Outline

10 days course

 

Introduction to Steering Complex Projects
 
  • The project initialisation

  • The project planning

  • Design of project plans, cost estimates and budgets

  • Planning of project quality, personnel deployment and communication channels

 

 Projects as Strategic Change
 
  • Understand the strategic goals of the organisation and articulate what the project outcomes will contribute to the strategy

  • Understand the political process of creating project goals, including negotiating and seeking win-win coalitions

  • Translate high level strategic goals into project goals

 

Execution Projects
 
  • Identify the key characteristics of execution projects

  • Understand the managerial relevance of the critical path and limitations

  • Identify uncertainties and take mitigative or responsive actions

 

 Novel Projects
 
  • Identify the key characteristics of novel projects and the technical steps of managing them

  • Articulate steps to follow when encountering unforeseeable uncertainty

  • Understand pivoting/iterating and parallelism, and how to incorporate them into project planning and monitoring

 Change Projects
 
  • Identify the four methods for managing a change project

  • Generate guidelines for managing the social dimensions of change

  • Author a template for stakeholder management

 

 Managing People and Teams
 
  • Identify and apply ingredients of goal clarity and three criteria for them

  • Articulate competency-driven values for a project

  • Analyse how to deal with rule-breakers and high-performers and establish related guidelines

 

Governance

 

  • Understand the role governance plays in maintaining strategic alignment in projects

  • Identify the five elements of well-designed governance structures

  • Build a framework for managing the governance structure with accountability measures

 

Partners
 
  • Understand what contracts can and cannot do, and identify the four different types of contracts for an appropriate fit

  • Understand the role that co-location can play in project management

  • Understand how renegotiation must be built into the contract from the beginning

 

 

Project Communications 
 
  • Channels & Models

  • Communications Management Plan

  • Manage Communications

  • Monitor Communications

  • Solutions 

 

Learning and Integration
 
  • Identify the tools for each project type, and how to deploy them

  • Make informed choices from the portfolio of tools to ensure projects encourage learning within the organisation

  • Apply established methods of knowledge exchange and learning tools in a way that is appropriate to the challenges of a project Monitoring and control of project risks, contract management

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