Seminar Focus:

∙ Presents Situational Project Management (SitPM), which enables project managers to determine the most appropriate methodologies and leadership styles for their projects

∙ Shows how to analyze a project based on its physical characteristics, team behavior, enterprise environment, and market environment

∙ Provides an approach for adapting leadership styles to more effectively motivate team members

∙ Gives tools & techniques to engage stakeholders in the way that ensures they will benefit from project deliverables

Overview:

Most project managers would agree that every project is unique. However, not all project managers would agree that the best way to manage a unique project is unique. Many still cling to the old practice of having a methodology that is applied to all projects. "One size fits all" is still in common use, and this approach has proven to lead to project failure.

Flexibility, situational intelligence, and creativity are essential to deliver a project success

The need to recognize and master ever-changing requirements and environmental conditions is a tough challenge for professional project managers. The same practices that led to success yesterday may cause failure today. One of the difficulties for a project manager is understanding the requirements and challenges of a given project or project situation, then selecting and adjusting approaches, methods, tools and techniques so that they are favorable for that situation, and not try to apply inappropriate practices that would then be detrimental. Selecting favorable responses to a given situation is often the most critical factor of the dynamics of success and failure. This seminar is designed to help project professionals assess a situation, predict the appropriate approach, methodology and achieving styles, and then apply them in a situational fashion.

One size does not fit all in project management

To guide project managers in selecting the appropriate responses, Situational Project Management (SitPM) shows how to assess a given project, determine its unique characteristics, and select the appropriate methods to complete the project. During the seminar, participants will use SitPM to develop profiles of their projects, on the basis of the projects’ physical characteristics, the project teams’ behavioral characteristics, the enterprise environment, and the market environments receiving project deliverables. These profiles help project managers to determine the appropriate project life cycle approach and leadership style. Participants will also explore various ways to engage stakeholders on the basis of a project’s SitPM profile.

Not a common PMBOK-based training

The seminar uses a recently developed typology of projects to help project managers select the most favorable practices for the specific projects and for the specific situations. Participants will be introduced to the typology and to the practices that match them the best. Participants are taken through a series of known project management concepts and traditional practices towards the core of where situational approaches must be applied. This helps understand the dynamics of success and failure in a disruptive world, apply Situational Project Management and respond with more precision to various challenging project situations.

The seminar contains, explains and exemplifies interesting theoretical models that can be applied for some specific project management situations to keep a project under control.

Who Should Attend this Seminar

Ideally, you will not attend this seminar alone, as the situations are best exercised with colleagues from your own organization. If you are a PMO Lead or Project Director, we suggest you bring your team with you. If you are a Project Manager, we advise you to involve your boss and colleagues and attend together.

The seminar will be of particular benefit to the following roles:

∙ Project Managers
∙ Program Managers
∙ PMO Directors
∙ Business Analysts

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