Course Description

Project managers experience a wide array of success pattern (and failures). There are a number of factors governing the project performance, however, the project manager plays a pivotal role in managing uncertainties while embarking on a deep engagement model with stakeholders to meet project objectives. There are a number of areas that are overlooked (unintentionally) by a project manager leading to difficult challenges that could threaten the project performance. Based on years of exposure to a project manager’s approach across different cultures, the course design identifies areas that are highly susceptible for such overlooks. The course focuses on how a project manager should define certain disciplined approach to managing such vulnerabilities.

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.

• Missing the ‘integration’ aspects of comprehensive planning
• Overlooking the minor details that transforms into larger threats
• Mismanaging scope across life cycle and overlooking time discipline
• Failing on the emotional intelligence of team management
• Taking on the “Do’ role than getting things DONE
• Subjective approach to objective criteria
• Failing to perform factor analysis of common failure patterns
• Failing to leverage the environment

Learning Objectives

• Understand failure mode analysis
• Appreciate the soft and hard side of project knowledge areas
• Establish and leveraging the informal power network
• Define common areas overlooked by project managers

The P in PM is as much about ‘people management’ as it is about ‘project management’.