Managing Multiple Projects: (Prioritizing and Keeping Your Projects on Track and on Budgets)
Program Overview:
Managing cost in today’s business environment requires that we embark on a number of projects simultaneously. Project managers these days have to contend with multiple projects all at once. These projects exist in three dimensions:
1- Task-oriented projects
2- Independent projects
3- Interdependent projects
This program is designed to give leverage to project managers saddled with managing multiple projects at the same time.
For Whom:
Project managers at all levels handle multiple projects or preparing to manage multiple projects. A good knowledge in project management is a necessary pre-requisite to participate in this program.
Learning Objectives:
At the end of the program, participants will be able to;
■ Analyze multiple projects situations
■ Prioritize among projects for effective project time scale
■ Create realistic schedules using project management tools
■ Manage through organizational problems
■ Develop measures in managing project crisis
Course Outline:
Day 1: Multiple Projects Situation: Overview
■ Benefits of managing multiple projects
■ Categorizing project portfolio
■ Building on Project management for single projects
■ Requirements for task-oriented and independent projects
Day 2: Challenges with Multiple Projects
■ What are your individual project objectives?
■ Priorities?
■ Project sponsor?
■ Corporate project management methodology
■ Realistic project scheduling: Mission impossible
Day 3: Resource Management with Multiple Projects
■ Getting organized
■ Control management system
■ Effective delegation
■ Resource availability
■ Matrix organization
Day 4: Success Strategies for Managing Multiple Projects
■ How to analyze multiple project situations
■ Clear project priorities
■ Active project sponsors
■ Project management methodology for multiple projects
■ Designing realistic schedules
■ Effective delegation
Day 5: Productivity Improvement Strategy for Managing Multiple Projects
■ Increase productivity: Learn the tools of PM
■ Solve organizational problems
■ Automate your PM tools
■ Getting out of the crisis
■ Evaluate your strategies for results.
Training Methodology
Lectures, discussions, exercises, and case studies will be used to reinforce these teaching/learning methods.