Complex Project Management
Focuses primarily on ensuring clarity of project requirements, consistency of delivery and commitment of the project team towards acquiring, producing and integrating knowledge
3-DAY WORKSHOP | 1-DAY FOLLOW THROUGH FACILITATION
COMPLEX PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Today’s business thrives on uncertainty and dealing with complex problems becomes a norm rather than an exception. With increasing uncertainty and volatility in the business environment, managing projects becomes increasingly complex. Such projects require development of new technical requirements to keep abreast with rapidly changing expectations of stakeholders. Under these circumstances, the overall project objectives become becoming increasingly difficult to achieve.
To manage complex projects, project managers have to integrate varied knowledge based competencies and customize changes required quickly and effectively to successfully complete projects. They need cognitive and contextual integration expertise, which means ability to manage knowledge to adapt appropriately to changes being encountered.
Terminal Objective
To manage projects that have a high degree of technical and stakeholder requirement complexity and volatility in order to successfully deliver high value projects within the specified constraints and limitations in place.
Key course outcomes
- Define the expected “vision” of complex projects;
- Determine key customer expectations and requirements for complex projects;
- Monitor and manage changing expectations of key stakeholders;
- Review suitability and relevance of value proposition delivered to client.
- Establish value proposition for complex projects from the clients’ perspective;
- List agile and lean values, principles and key practices that enable value delivery;
- Apply key agile principles while managing projects;
- List complex project management tools that enable consistent delivery.
CONSISTENCY OF DELIVERY TO MEET REQUIREMENTS
- List key knowledge processes for planning and implementing complex projects;
- Plan how the key knowledge requirements of the project may be acquired, produced and integrated into the project by means of training, learning on the job, or e-learning;
- Determine specific methods to exchange critical knowledge required for the project and to develop this knowledge using knowledge sharing techniques;
- Establish suitable methods for retrospectively assessing how well the project team is doing and what needs to be done to undertake projects better.
FEATURED CLIENTS
COMPLEX PROJECT MANAGEMENT SYLLABUS & OUTLINE
Time |
Activity |
9.00 |
Introduction and Overview |
9.05 |
Pre-Test |
9.15 |
Introduction to the concept complex project management |
9.45 |
Overview of knowledge management for complex projects |
10.00 |
Overview of practices for managing complex projects |
10.30 |
TEA BREAK |
10.45 |
Identifying critical knowledge required for complex projects |
11.00 |
Small Group Work: Identifying critical knowledge required |
11.45 |
Sharing knowledge of project requirements |
12.00 |
Small Group Work: Knowledge sharing -project requirements |
13.00 |
LUNCH |
14.00 |
Prioritizing project requirements through “user stories” |
14.45 |
Small Group Work: Identifying requirements through “user stories” |
15.15 |
Identifying and simplifying project requirements |
15.30 |
TEA BREAK |
15.45 |
Planning for tasks required for complex projects |
16.00 |
Small Group Work: Managing task for complex projects |
17.00 |
Summary of key concepts covered |
17.30 |
Question and answer and wrap up for day 1 |
FAQ & FURTHER INFORMATION
The 70:20:10 Model for Learning and Development has been found to be most effective within the training profession to describe the optimal sources of learning aimed at developing work based competencies. It holds that individuals obtain 70 percent of their knowledge from job-related experiences, 20 percent from interactions with others, and 10 percent from formal educational events.
Based on this model, we propose that the Complex Project Management course be structured along similar lines. It is proposed that it is undertaken in stages. These stages will include awareness stage, appreciation stage and application stage.