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PPS Advanced project management

Project management in complex projects

3 days. Remote or in classroom

PPS Advanced project management - Managing Complex Projects

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Do you face complex challenges in your projects?
Do you need advanced planning methods?
Are you required to coordinate different production models?

This course covers a wide range of topics and combines exercises with theory. It builds on the PPS Project Management course and takes a deeper look at many of the competencies previously covered, while also introducing new areas. We focus on overarching themes such as how to adapt the project to different production models—e.g., agile—and how to identify the most effective strategy for delivering project results to maximize contribution to the expected benefit and support ongoing business operations. The balance between the project and the base organisation affects our ability to manage the project. Other aspects that can expand your toolbox for more complex projects include enhanced options for WBS, milestones, estimation, earned value, and risk calculations to define an appropriate risk reserve.

Course Focus

Content

  • Project conditions and strategies
  • Benefit management and prioritisation of the project objective
  • Production models and production strategy
  • Project planning
  • Requirement management, scheduling, milestones, budgeting, and WBS
  • Project organisation
  • Distributed projects, subprojects, resource planning and provisioning
  • Project execution
  • Follow-up using earned value, risk management, and project analysis
  • Project or base organisation (who governs)


Objectives
After the course, you will have:

  • A holistic view of the project’s role and relationships
  • An understanding of how benefit owners, steering groups, and
  • business operations can influence project conditions
  • Insight and knowledge of tools and methods for managing more
  • complex projects
  • Practical tools for planning and managing the project’s production
     

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