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PSG203 - Managing Outsourced and Offshore Projects

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Course #: PSG203
PDU: 21
Price: Call for Pricing
Length: 3
Prereq: Completion of PSG Core Curriculum, Masters Certificate in Project Management or PMP

According to Gartner, IT outsourcing will continue to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 6.9% per year through 2009. In order to succeed and remain competitive in today’s market, organizations need to find ways to embrace this trend while maintaining high levels of quality and service delivery. Project managers need new skills to manage these cross-cultural and distributed teams. This course will provide project managers with proven methods for managing outsourced and offshore projects, handling cross-cultural differences and avoiding the most common management pitfalls.
 

Learning objectives:

  • Understanding the four cultural types
  • Varying your management style based on the four types of organizations
  • Effectively communicating across cultural boundaries
  • Avoiding the common cultural mistakes when managing a cross-cultural team
  • Establishing common language, processes, metrics and controls
  • Managing effectively at the contractual, project and product levels
  • Improving integrated work streams and team performance
  • Dealing practically with distributed teams across time zones to keep communication flowing and the project on schedule
  • Moving from vendor management to partner management
  • Structuring your outsourced or off-shore project for success
  • Applying common outsourced/off-shoring project models successfully


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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