Your Situation
You are a project leader, prospective project leader, sub project leader or a project team member with potential for future managerial functions in projects.You possess the required professional knowledge to conduct your projects. However, in order to structure, plan, supervise and bring your projects to a successful end, you now wish to acquire the process competence in project management.
Even if you have not worked in projects up to now, this seminar will provide you with a detailed overview about the tasks and responsibilities of project management.
Your Benefit
This seminar gives you the necessary confidence and competence to manage complex projects.
After this seminar you will be able to manage and steer your projects or sub projects on your own. You will be able to structure your project, conduct stakeholder analyses, set up a project plan based on cost, resource and time-line factors, supervise your project with greater effectiveness and efficiency and, not least, bring the project to a successful finish.
This seminar gives you the necessary confidence and competence to manage the risks, chances, claims and change requests that occur in projects.
Additionally you get a clear understanding of psychological success factors of project work which enables you to make your collaboration in your project team more effective.
Contents
Module 1
1. Initiating the project
- How do I prepare a stakeholder analysis and define the targets?
- What are the exact details of the project order?
- What does a professional project organization look like?
2. Planning the project
- By which criteria do I structure my project?
- How do I create a project structure plan?
- How do I define an optimal project process (network)?
- Which methods enable me to calculate the costs for the work package?
- How do I use the network for planning time, resources and costs?
3. Supervising and steering the project
- What possibilities do I have to deal with changes or interruptions in the project?
- How do I create milestone, cost and trend analyses?
- How do I ensure the quality of my project?
- By which criteria do I ascertain the degree of completion of my project?
- How do I present the “Earned Value Analysis”?
- What information does an efficient project status report contain?
4. Bringing the project to an end
- By which criteria will the project results be accepted?
- What processes must a project leader initiate for the end of the project?
- How do I secure the experience, know-how and lessons learned from the project?
Module 2
1. Leading in projects
- Management behavior and style of leadership
- Important traits of good leaders
- Motivation and job satisfaction
2. The project leader as team builder
- Team development
- Group dynamics
- Team roles
3. The project leader as facilitator
- Heading, facilitating team meetings
4. The
project leader as conflict manager
- Conflict signals and conflict avoidance
- Conflict analysis and conflict phases
- Conflict solution
Module 3
1. The fundamentals of successful risk and claim
- How do I formulate risks, chances, claims and change requests?
- How do I identify risks and chances in the proposal phase (project definition)?
- How do I recognize snares in contracts and project requirements?
2. Risk analysis
- With which methods do I evaluate risks and chances?
- By which criteria do I classify risks and chances?
- How do I define actions to minimize risk and limit damage?
3. Claim strategy and the claim process
- What are aspects of an appropriate claim strategy?
- What does an efficient claim process look like?
- How do I coordinate the claim process with my contractual partner?
- How must I formulate the contents of a claim?
4. Supervising risks, chances, claims and change requests in the course of the project
- How can I successfully manage risks and chances?
- By which criteria can I make and assert claims on my contractual partner?
- How can I appropriately react to claims from my contractual partner?
- How can I successfully prepare and conduct claim meetings?
Requirements
First experiences in leading or coordinating (sub) projects.
Methodology
With the support of your trainer you work in small groups and use the teached methods and behaviours immediate and practical in case studies. Lecture, discussion, role plays, hands on examples and presentation with following analysis and evaluation determine the training schedule. With this mix of methods your training success will be assured.