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Download PDF Brochure May 14-16, 2007, Dubai Event Overview Who Should Attend Benefits of Attending Seminar Outline About the Seminar Leader Venue and Pricing Register

Who Should Attend

Project Managers, Project Administrators, and Project Team Leaders as well as executives and managers who perform the role of project sponsors or who are tasked with managing an organization's strategic projects portfolio will benefit from this workshop.

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This programme engages you in Management by Project within a Business Focused Project Management (BFPM™) framework, and provides you with a generic methodology that enhances project outputs and benefits realization.

At the end of this workshop the participant will:

• Be able to demonstrate an understanding of Business Focused Project Management (BFPM™) and its application and context within an organization.
• Understand how a project is conceptualized and initiated in support of the strategy and business plans of the organization.
• Introduces the participants to the concepts of “early stage” planning to obtain commitment and buy-in through the application of a Project Definition Workshop.
• Be introduced to and learn to apply alternative project management techniques, processes, and strategies.
• EARN 21 PDUs from Project Management Institute (PMI), USA

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• Projects and Project Management
  Define projects and discuss project types (fog, quest, movie, and painting by numbers), key participants (clients, upper management, sponsor, project manager, team members, and steering committees), and understand the value of the project lifecycle and a project management process.

• The Context of Project Management
  Address the concepts of project management, and develop an understanding of management roles; project management knowledge areas; the trade-off between scope, time, cost, and quality; management power flows, and project management methodologies, and obtain an integrated view of projects.

• Business Focused Project Management
  Introduction to the concepts of Business Focused Project Management and a unique set of project paradoxes that assist in the development of a wider understanding of projects, and the tensions in delivering project work in a cross functional manner.

• Project and Strategic Linkages
  Discuss the need for project strategic linkages and understand the “Wrappers” model, which integrates strategic, business and project layers, with a project process at the centre. Understand the importance of establishing performance measures across the three Wrappers and appreciate the need to build an environment that supports project management.

• Portfolio of Projects – The Business Link
  Address the concept of a portfolio of projects and the critical business links, with particular focus on a prioritization and selection process that delivers value to the organization. Requirements for managing multiple projects as a programme are considered, and project proposal and business-case guidelines are included.

• Introduction to ODPM®
  Understand the characteristics of ODPM® in a lifecycle and process format.

• The Project Initiation Phase
  Describes the project initiation phase and addresses project manager selection, feasibility verification, stakeholder identification, and project charter development. Business case/proposals are the input to project initiation.

• The Project Definition Phase
  Focuses on the definition phase of a project, including definition workshop, project purpose, objectives, performance measures, critical success factors, and project scoping. The definition plan comes from results-focused planning and organizing, including milestones, responsibilities, the stakeholder analysis and communications plan, risk analysis, and initial cost estimates.

• The Project Planning Phase
  Covers manageability and viability of the plan, and expands on the definition phase. Time, cost, quality, communications, human resources, procurement, cash flow, and project baseline are developed further developed from the definition phase. Project control mechanisms, project management information system (PMIS), and key performance indicators (KPIs) are developed.

• The Project Execution Phase
  Addresses the establishment of monitoring and control mechanisms, evaluation of project performance and progress, and production of performance reports. Focuses is on plan updating, problem solving, issues management and change control, while reviewing business objectives and benefits validity.

• Project Close-out Phase
  Considers close-out issues, process and planning. Addresses the necessary protocols and steps needed to bring a project to successful completion, including the final report and the post-implementation review, lessons learnt and benefits realization.

• Reasons for Failure and Guidelines for Success
  Investigates project-related problems, and addresses perceptions of success and failure and the complexities involved. The 10 deadly sins of IT projects are reviewed and guidelines to enhance success discussed.

• Programme Management as a business approach to deliver value

• Managing benefits from “concept to catch”

• Understanding Project Management Maturity in the context of organization capability

• Project Management Competency within the organization

• Review Programme and Project Health Checks and the related business value obtained

• Leadership challenges and styles in delivering projects

• Building teams with borrowed cross-functional resources

• Project Sponsor management and interfacing Steering Committees

• Project Support Office – are they required and what value do they offer?

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Dennis Comninos

A gregarious, sought-after, and prominent author, speaker, and business consultant, he is universally characterized by friends, colleagues, and clients as one of the most insightful, powerful, and compassionate men in business today.

Dennis has over 30 years of project management experience covering strategic, IT, development, engineering and business projects. For more than 2 decades he has lectured and consulted in major orgzanizations in the USA, Africa, Middle East, New Zealand, Australia and Europe. He is a Project Management Consultant to the World Bank, EU and the UNDP. Dennis is the co-author of a best-selling internationally published book entitled “The Practice of Project Management—A Business Focused Approach” His second book has recently been published internationally and has been awarded the association of MBAs seal of approval for use as a text book on MBA programmes.

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Venue: Crowne Plaza, Dubai, UAE

Fees: USD 1,900/- per delegate

Early Bird Discounts:

Register for USD 1,800/- on or before April 14th, 2007 and get USD 100 OFF!

Register for USD 1,700/- on or before March 14th, 2007 and get USD 200 OFF!

Group Discounts:

Register 3 delegates from your organization and the Fourth goes FREE!

In-house Option:

This course can also be delivered as In-house / On-site option. Please contact us if you have a group of employees to be trained at a location of your choice.

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