Who is this for?
This workshop is intended for senior and emerging leaders accountable for sponsoring and overseeing strategic project initiatives in an organizational context. It is ideal for an organization’s entire senior leadership team.
Benefits for you
- Grow your knowledge about how projects fail and what makes them succeed
- Build the conditions needed for project and team success
- Establish accountability to drive better project outcomes
- Provide the project tools needed to achieve positive results
- Use monitoring techniques to gauge project performance
- Keep projects aligned with the delivery of business benefits
Program content
Building Conditions for Success: Seeing the Big Picture
- Key project management concepts and how they impact success
- Getting the larger context first with Project Key Assessment Factors
- Using Project Key Performance Measures to analyze project performance and improve outcomes
Organizing for Success: Roles and Relationships
- Project organizational structures – which to use
- Relationships between the project steering committee, project and sustainment sponsors and the project management core team
- Establishing accountability through effective project leadership
Planning for Success: Tools that Drive Results
- Project management approaches and their affect on benefit realization
- Planning factors and their impact on success
- Ensuring the right tools are being used
Guiding Principles for Success: Learning from the Past
- Why projects fail and what makes them successful
- The 12 Project Key Performance Indicators: healthy and unhealthy signs
- Using a dashboard of oversight and early warning systems
Special features
You will engage in team exercises based on selections drawn from participants’ own upcoming strategic initiatives, and receive guided feedback from the workshop leader.
As part of the workshop, you will receive PMI® Professional Development Units (PDUs).
Program leader
Denise Holleran-Boswell
Denise is a certified PMP and Prosci Change Practitioner, the Founder and Managing Partner of Collaborators In Knowledge Inc., and past President of the Society of PMP’s of Greater Vancouver. She has over 40 years of international industry experience as a practicing project, program and portfolio manager specializing in change, risk and stakeholder management. In her role as coach, she has trained thousands of people from the private and public sectors in the best practices of portfolio and project management.