Project Management: Taking Control of Projects

Who should attend

Senior managers, executives and directors with budget control of project teams, project managers delivering change, products, functionality or outcomes, either internally or to clients.

• Project Executives and Project Sponsors. This group of individuals will be responsible for ensuring that projects they initiate or are accountable for, are structured in the most effective way, to ensure the successful delivery and achievement of key project objectives (scope, time, cost, quality, risks and benefits). This group of individuals will want to learn and understand, how to spot a project that is out of control and how to set it back on track. They will be interested in understanding how to setup a project for effective control from the very start. They will also be interested in understanding what they need to do before and during the project, to assist the appointed project manager and the project team, to ensure the correct controls are in place from the start and stay in place throughout the project lifecycle.

• Operational/Functional Managers. This group of individuals may actually take the role of Program Manager, fully responsible for planning and delivering a number of related projects, however they will do this, via an appointed project manager/s, who will work the day to day of the project on their behalf. This group of individuals, will be keen to learn how to setup and control the program of projects to best deliver business unit plans. They will also benefit from early warning signs of an out of control project.

• Intermediate Project Managers. This group of individuals will be familiar with all the basic tools and techniques of project management and would have attended some sort of project management training before. These individuals would attend for the purposes of leveraging 20/20 vision to best circumvent out of control projects and to learn techniques of how to setup projects for better control.