Course Description

During global economic booms and crisis, the business leadership teams have heavily relied on a number of strategic and tactical projects to steer through the enterprise strategy. The enduring reliance on project successes indicates the need to establish project management function as an integral part of every enterprise. Project management is constructed as a set of people, processes, systems that demands strong enterprise interface. Such an approach demands the need for driving project management similar to yet another enterprise function. Chief project officers (CPO) are the new positions that represent the projects organisation at the highest level of an enterprise providing strategy, direction, support and interface between project management and the enterprise supply chain.

Main Topics

The course topics are based on the good practices of project management as per international standards and leading publications/journals that have researched on the subject.

• Organisational Project Management Model (OPM)
• The emergence of CPO role (on demand)
• Project organisation types, selection criteria
• The 6S framework of a project organisation
• Establishing interfaces with business management functions
• Project management maturity model
• Define the project organisation model aligned to enterprise principles
• Establish a marketing strategy with C Suite executives and the enterprise (acceptance)

Learning Objectives

• Define the enterprise interface challenges of project organisation
• Appreciate the unique challenges of setting up project management office at strategic, tactical and operational layer
• Understand the role of CPO
• Define the overall strategic fitment of PMO within enterprises
• Define the project organisation model aligned to enterprise principles
• Establish a marketing strategy with C Suite executives and the enterprise (acceptance)

*Note: This course for manager/director level & above

Every project needs a leader who owns and supports the project.