Project Management for the Executive

Course Type: Instructor Led
Estimated Time of Completion: Full-day / Two half-days
Language: English

Description:
Project management is quickly becoming a core competency for most organizations as they move toward a project-oriented approach to managing their businesses. This one-day course is designed to provide an overview of project management for the executive. The course focuses on the benefits of project management and how senior management can improve the success of project management within the organization. The executive will learn how best practices in project management can add consistency to the process of delivering quality products and solutions to customers - on time, under budget, and ahead of the competition. The course also provides an overview of the Project Management Center of Excellence and its strategic value. Includes a class book for each student.

• Benefits of project management

• Project management best practices
• Role of key participants
• Strategic project management
• Project management culture
• Environment for successful projects
• Organizing for project management
• Managing and developing project managers
• Senior management influence
• Project Management Center of Excellence

Course Objectives

At the end of this course the student will:

• Understand the benefits of project management and the role of key participants
• Understand how senior management can influence the success of project management
• Learn how to create an environment for successful projects
• Learn how to give projects a strategic emphasis
• Learn how to create a project management culture in the organization
• Understand the responsibilities and characteristics of a project manager
• Learn how to manage and develop project managers
• Understand the Center of Excellence concept and its benefits
• Understand the "getting started" steps in implementing a project management program and the keys to success
• Understand the importance of project planning
• Understand how to develop project management as a career