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Project Management for Executives
- One-day seminar

Program Number: PMGNFE
PDUs: 6

1.0 Preface

• Aimed at helping the course participants to understand what upper management can do to support PM
• Designed to help the participants better understand the benefits of PM to THEM and the organization as a whole

2.0 Introduction

• Discussion of “What Project Management Is...”
• Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK)
• Project life cycles
• Project processes
• Integration management
• Scope management
• Time management
• Quality management
• Human resource management
• Communications management
• Risk management Procurement management
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification

3.0 Implementing Project Management in Your Organization

• Basic steps of implementing PM in an organization.
• Strategic planning for project management using a project management maturity model
• What is the end goal? How will you know you are there?
• Various models available today
• Where are you in the maturity model?
• Strategies for increasing your project management maturity level.

4.0 The Role of upper Management with Respect to

• Supporting the Project Management Team
• Executive sponsor for the overall PM implementation effort Project sponsorship
• Behavioral and decision consistency necessary to support PM.
• Honesty

5.0 Creating an Organizational Environment that truly supports Project Management

• Brainstorm and evaluate ways to create an organizational environment that supports project management

6.0 Project Management Professionalism – How Project Managers Perceive Themselves and Their Efforts to Manage Projects Professionally

• The right way to do PM
• The PM process {Life Cycle}
• Generating estimates through parametric modeling
• Honesty in estimating & reporting
• CHANGE-CONTROL

7.0 Reinforcing the “Right” Behaviors

• Rational, scientific objectives
• Telling the truth
• Truthful reporting

8.0 How to avoid unintentionally undermining the Project Management Process

• What should be avoided by management

9.0 Project Estimating – “Getting Beyond Numbers Games”

• More in-depth treatment of the estimating process and how to “do it right”

10.0 What Decision-Makers should expect from Their Organization’s Project Management System

• Help participants truly understand what a healthy organization looks like
• What a well-functioning PM System brings to the organization
• Learn informed-decision-making to increased efficiency
• Learn effectiveness and how to higher profits

11.0 Understanding the Stresses that Project Managers Face

• Lesson on “Understanding and Empathizing With Your Project Manager...”

12.0 How Project Management is likely to Change Your Organization

• Understand what happens when an organization implements PM
• Learn about change-management
• Learn about resistance to change

13.0 Setting Realistic Policies and Procedures for a  Projectized Organization

14.0 Need for Organizational Leadership in a Projectized Organization