International Project Management

General Overview
If you want your projects to be successful, you must delight your customers by satisfying their requirements and high expectations - all within their desired timeframe and budget. To meet this challenge on an international level, you need to have a solid foundation in project and people management skills - as well as possess the needed intercultural skills to consistently achieve maximum results.

This 4-day practice-based seminar combines theoretical knowledge and people skills - and will equip participants to be effective project management leaders along the current best practices recommended by the Project Management Institute.

Recommended for
Anyone involved in project work on a full-time basis, including team members as well as project managers. More experienced project managers will be able to sharpen their skills by coaching their less experienced team members during the case study exercises.

Objectives

• To improve your ability to effectively blend the different perspectives and interests of everyone affected by your project into a unified statement of objectives.
• To understand the basic processes of project initiation, planning, execution, controlling and closing.
• To discover new approaches to achieving quality by getting the requirements right the first time.
• To enhance your communication skills - both personally and cross-culturally.
• To learn the priniciples of project scheduling, budgeting and resource planning.
• To explore ways to more effectively identify and manage risk
  

Content

Introduction to project management
- The project management process
- Key activities in the project life cycle

Creating stakeholder partnership
- Understanding stakeholders
- Analyzing stakeholder groups
- Assessing stakeholder learning and communication styles

Getting the requirements right
- Scope planning
- The key questions
- The PM process

Planning and executing the project
- Communication
- Resource planning: selecting and managing people, equipment and material.
- Scheduling: How long will it take?
- Budget planning
- Risk planning
- Execution management and change control

Learning Methods
Presentations, discussions, case studies, and interactive exercises with debriefing.

Group size
5 - 30 participants (recommended minimum 8 to allow two teams for case study work)

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