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BEST PRACTICES FOR THE MULTI PROJECT MANAGER
Seminar No: 06523 -XNBB
CEU Credits: 1.8
Length: 3 days
Meet the challenge of handling multiple projects.
Balancing several projects with a seemingly limitless workload and limited resources and doing it in a dramatically altered business environment—that’s the challenge of the multi-project manager today.
The good news is that there are more effective methods for handling multiple projects, and you’ll discover all these skills and techniques at this seminar. Here’s where you’ll learn how to view your projects from a variety of perspectives. From strategic direction to risk analysis, you’ll look at how the “best in the business” attack multi-project management.
Attendees:
Project and program directors and managers who are working on multiple projects simultaneously; department heads who are balancing projects with their normal work; senior managers who are determining the best projects to undertake for successful strategic initiatives; and anyone who is trying to balance resources across multiple projects.
How You Will Benefit:
- Keep projects on track, on time and on budget
- Balance staff and workload while reducing risk and conflict
- Increase staff and personal productivity
- Set and maintain priorities
- Improve personal time management
- Improve your communication throughout the organization
- Align work and projects with the strategic direction of the organization
Outline:
Review of the Basics
Maintaining project schedule
Understanding phase development
Maximizing your resources
Managing risks to prevent catastrophe
Prioritizing Projects and Constraints
Setting stakeholders’ expectations
Knowing where the project fits in your organization
Balancing program constraints, goals-related projects
Designing and Developing Multiple-Project Plans
Defining coordination points among projects
Balancing risks and resources
Setting the right staff size for optimum performance
Setting inter-project dependencies to keep the project on track
Risk Management
Multiple project risk management
Managing contingencies
Network effects of risk across multiple projects
Negotiating
Negotiation basics that will yield success
Time, information and the requisite skills to finish the project
Needs vs. wants in multiple-project environments
Monitoring Multiple Projects
Techniques that support roll-up to effectively monitor multiple projects
Earned value for multiple projects
Statistical aids to gauge project costs
Time management in a multiple project environment
Reporting Multiple Projects
What to expect from project managers and staff
What and how to report to senior management and clients
Start and End times: first day - 8:30am-5pm, all other days 9am-5pm unless otherwise specified. Your registration confirmation notice will confirm the hotel/conference center for the seminar for which you registered. The information included on this page is all the information available on this seminar. Please use form below to register only. To request information that is not included above please send an email to
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New York
AMA executive Conference Center
1601 Broadway New York, NY 10019
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Chicago
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Chicago, IL 60631
San Francisco
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55 Fourth Street 2nd Level
San Francisco, CA 94103
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AMA Executive Conference Center
Address: 1170 Peachtree Street Ne Cnr Peachtree & 14th (3rd Flr)
City, State, Zip: Atlanta, GA 30309
Washington, DC
Arlington, Virginia
2345 Crystal Drive, Suite 200
Arlington, VA 22202
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