COURSE OBJECTIVE:
• Systems thinking and project management
• Chaos theory and project management
• Skills needed to lead a complex project
• Complexity theory and how to assess your project complexity
• Right structure for complex projects
• Assessing risk for complex projects
TARGET AUDIENCE:
This course is suitable for Project managers, IT project managers, project leaders, senior project managers, and program managers who have senior responsibility for high-risk, high-dollar, high-reward projects and programs.
COURSE PREREQUISITES:
• Project Management Fundamentals
• IT Project Management
• Applied Project Management
COURSE CONTENT:
1. The Complex Project
• Systems Thinking
• Chaos and Complexity Theory
• How these relate to project management
2. Leading Complex Projects
• Skills required
• Complex project competency self-assessment
• PMI® competencies
• Start personal mastery plan
3. Fundamentals of Complexity Theory
• What is complexity?
• Types of complexity
• Fitness landscape
• Chaos as it relates to complexity theory
• Complexity theory
• Linear and non-linear systems
• Complex adaptive systems
4. Assessing Your Project Complexity
• Complex project toolkit
• Elements of project complexity
• Organization breakdown structure
• Work breakdown structure
• Use the complexity assessment tool (CAT)
• Strategies of planning and managing complex projects
5. Structuring Your Project for Success
• Selecting the right project management methodology
• How to incorporate that methodology into your current processes
6. Risk Planning and Management
• Types of risks in complex projects
• Approaches to identification
• Risk assessment and response planning
7. Leading Complex Projects
• Assess your leadership competencies
• Applying adaptive leadership to complex projects
• Communicating a vision
• Implementing strategies to encourage innovation and build a cohesive team
• Types of personal behaviors and how to get the most out of people
• Identifying techniques for leveraging complexity
Hands-On Activities:
• Develop Your Personal Mastery Plan
• Assess Project Complexity
• Stakeholder Analysis and Planning
• Risk Identification and Response Planning
• OBS
PMI is a registered mark of the Project Management Institute, Inc.
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