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This course supports your study towards PMI’s NEW Programme Management Professional (PgMP℠)Credential

 

Very good. Thought provoking, well structured, good ideas, framework


Andrew Daniels
Project Manager
Shell

PMBOK® Guide knowledge areas:

Project Integration Management

Project Scope Management

Project Quality Management

Project Time Management

Project Cost Management

Project Risk Management

Project Human Resource Management

Project Procurement Management

Project Communications Management

Leading Complex Projects


Course information

Duration: 3 days
PDUs: 22.5

Course Fee:
£1595 excl. VAT
€2295 excl. VAT

 

Learn how to:

  • Apply the concepts of complexity science to project management
  • Use ESI’s Complex Project Complexity Indicator to assess your project’s true complexity level
  • Create an innovative framework for managing project complexity using ESI’s Complex Project Management Model
  • Select specific approaches and leadership techniques to increase your odds of success

Course Synopsis

Have you ever taken on a project that appeared just too complex to handle? Just trying to identify the multitude of variables to be managed, let alone to anticipate how they might interact to create unexpected challenges, can be overwhelming. So how do you determine the true complexity, with a clear understanding of the variables involved and move forward to develop a project management plan that provides the right level of control and flexibility for success?

To manage the complex project requires a new way of thinking—a new approach to applying known project management techniques and tools. Leading Complex Projects provides a systematic approach to assess project complexity and to deploy the best approaches and techniques to achieve success.

You’ll learn to use ESI’s unique Complex Project Complexity Indicator and Complex Project Management Model to increase your effectiveness in managing complexity. The Complexity Indicator is used as an assessment tool to determine the actual level of project complexity as the first step in developing a project management plan. The Management Model provides valuable insight into the variables that create the complexity of your particular project. It enables you to select existing tools from a new point of view that both limits the level of complexity and governs how the remaining complexity is used for positive results - in short, to stack the odds of success in your favour!

The heart of the course is a progressive, integrated case study that gives you hands-on experience in determining the true level of project complexity, governing the use of complexity to assist rather than hinder progress, and to lead the project team from a new perspective. Among the tools provided is an automated template of ESI's Complexity Indicator. By answering the questions in the Complexity Indicator, this tool automatically calculates your project's complexity level, and plots the strengths and weaknesses of your project against the nine areas of PMBOK® Guide. This course is a must for the experienced project manager who needs a leg up in managing the seemingly unmanageable!

Reminder: Participants must already have practical project management experience and an understanding of project management tools and techniques.

Course Topics

  1. Understanding Complexity in Projects
    1. Elements of complexity theory
    2. Complexity
    3. Self-organization
    4. Emergence
    5. Nonlinear dynamics
    6. Open/closed systems
    7. Leadership approaches and ­techniques
    8. Competencies
    9. Behaviors
    10. Leaders in complexity
  2. The Complex Project Model and Process
    1. ESI’s Complex Project Model
    2. ESI’s Complex Project Process
    3. Communication
    4. Leadership
    5. Project management
  3. Determining Project Complexity
    1. ESI’s Complexity Indicator
    2. Assessing complexity levels
    3. Applying the indicator
  4. Communicating Project Complexity
    1. Communication platforms
    2. Risk and risk response
    3. Change management
    4. Problem solving
  5. Designing for Complex Projects
    1. OBS, PBS, WBS
    2. Design tasks
    3. Planning for project execution
  6. Leading Complex Projects
    1. Leading Complex Projects
    2. Clear vision
    3. Principles for leading complex projects
    4. Disciplines for leading complex projects Understanding Complexity in Projects

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