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PSG201 - Managing Interdependent Projects Across the Organization

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Course #:	PSG201
PDU:	21
Price:	Call for Pricing
Length:	3
Prereq:	Completion of PSG Core Curriculum, Masters Certificate in Project Management or PMP

To accomplish strategic initiatives and attain business goals, organizations are recognizing that they need their best managers to manage a group of related projects, which may or may not be referred to as a program. Managers who work with interrelated projects need to be mindful of integrating the scope and schedule of multiple project deliverables, manage finances and the risks associated with the projects, thus their job is more complex than managing single independent projects. A key success factor is the human relations and communication skills and style used with manage the project interfaces among other project managers, functional groups, marketing, new product development, operations, suppliers, and different business divisions and locations. Learning how to use integrate and manage interdependent projects well is important in the career development of project managers. Managing interdependent projects across the organization needs more skill at people management than technical project management because much of his or her job is managing at the systems level and getting things done through relationship management. There is a heavy emphasis on managing interface milestone deliverables, making good decisions about what to do when one project’s performance affects another project’s performance, and communicating effectively with all of the program key stakeholders.

Learning objectives:

Developing a master schedule for the project group
Identify, assess and manage interdependency across projects and functions
Identifying, assessing and managing risks across my projects
Assessing and managing how decision/solutions will affect other projects
Manage resource constraints and optimizing resource utilization
Know how to do relationship management – need to get to know key players well enough so that you can influence them when needed
Know how to communicate “bad news” to the right people at the right time
Developing a plan for milestone management – heavy emphasis on this
Establishing and communicating the importance of an executive steering committee
Developing a communication plan for the program, especially in managing hand offs or interface management.
Know how to do effective change management as it relates to the group of projects
Know when to address issues and with what level of management
Know how to remove obstacles/barriers to produce desired project deliverables
Know how to develop and present options to business leaders
Learning how to make a project status and “business” presentation on my program of projects to executives
Conducting a financial analysis of my program of projects, especially time to value analysis, which projects could be delayed

Audience: Project managers, project portfolio managers, PMO directors, project leaders and program managers

PMBOK Knowledge Areas

Integration management
Scope management
Time management
Cost management
Quality management
Human resource management
Communications management
Risk management
Procurement management

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