Applied Project and Stakeholder Management
Workshop Overview
This is a highly interactive workshop that addresses how to identify, monitor, document, and balance crucial information for the successful management of projects.
It also covers the development of a baseline for the project that will allow the efficient compilation and the timely generation of performance comparisons.
This workshop usually marks a milestone in the project management development road map. Participants will be required to develop a comprehensive project plan.
The success of the project is contingent on a variety of factors including and very importantly keeping the stakeholders satisfied. We cannot please everyone; nevertheless, identifying the major stakeholders that can affect one or more initiatives outcomes in a positive or negative manner and seeking to earn their buy-in is quintessential. The workshop is a walk-through over proper guidelines to maintain proper stakeholder engagement and tools & techniques to resolve conflicts.
Learning Objectives
- Understand and Practice Applying the Project Planning Framework
- Develop a Project Charter
- Identify and analyze project stakeholders
- Break down project deliverables into manageable items
- Estimate activities duration and develop project schedule
- Estimate costs and develop realistic budget
- Understand quality process to fulfill stakeholder requirements
- Map deliverable with project roles and set authorities
- Manage hypothetical project risks comprehensively
- Develop Full Project Plan
- Learn and practice how to deal with multiple stakeholders in complex projects
- Understand how to manage stakeholder expectations, including quality and performance expectations
- Develop Stakeholder Engagement Strategy
- Practice communicating with a variety of stakeholders through role-plays and scenarios
- Resolve competing expectations
- Manage project and organizational politics
Course Outline
- Introduction
- Project Planning Framework
- Brainstorming Project Ideas & Forming Project Groups
- Project Charter
- Stakeholder Register
- Communication Plan
- Requirements Documentation
- WBS & WBS Dictionary
- Activity List & Attributes
- Project Schedule
- Cost Estimates & Budget
- Organizational Chart & RACI Matrix
- Risk Management
- Project Stakeholder Management
- Principles of Stakeholder Management for a Project
- Case Study: Project Stakeholder Management
- Communication Management Plans
- Issue Management
- Change Management
- Case Study: Program Stakeholder Management
- Conflict Resolution (personal, group and organization)
- Principles of Stakeholder Management for a Portfolio
- Case Study: Portfolio Stakeholder Management
- Stakeholder Management Strategies
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