Best Practices for the Multi-Project Manager Seminar # 6523

Put the best concepts, tools and techniques available for multi-project management to work for you!

Discover how to balance resources across multiple projects and minimize risks while improving performance. You will examine two Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award (MBNQA) winners—and learn the best practices they share and how to put them into action in your organization. Find out the common characteristics of successful multi-project environments—such as ensuring communication from top-to-bottom and bottom-to-top…encouraging change…and establishing accountability.

How You Will Benefit

• Recognize the best practices in project management and how to incorporate them into your operation
• Discover how to establish an environment that supports effective multi-project management 
• Optimize resources across projects and other business processes
• Support your organization’s core values and strategic direction
• Learn how to provide for continuous project improvement
• Discover the benefits of a Project Management Office,steering committee and gate review teams

What You Will Cover

Primary Concepts for Managing Multi-Projects

• Objectives of multi-project management
• Best practices for MPM success

Establishing an Environment for Success

• Best practices within the industry and within the class
• Organizational structures that support MPM

How the Program Management Office Relates to Managing Multi-Projects

• Managing inter-project coordination points
• Multi-project resource leveling
• Developing project managers
• Program/portfolio reporting
• Constructing a PMO

The Project Management Business Process

• Business process basics
• Core concepts of improvement
• The project management businessprocess: gate and process reviews

Management by Metrics

• Characteristics of successful metrics
• Collecting and reporting on the data
• Establishing a baseline and target goals
• Multi-project applications of earned value
• Applying balanced scorecard to MPM
• Queuing theory and basics
• The great project conundrum
• Resource utilization in a multi-project environment
• The theory of constraints
• Multi-project (program) critical path

Summary: Achieving Best Practices in Multi-Project Management

• Consistency in project management practices
• Cultural characteristics needed for MPM
• Organizational responsibility

Who Should Attend

Project and program directors and managers, department heads, senior managers and anyone who is trying to balance resources across multiple projects.

Additional Information

• Extended Seminar Description
• Faculty Info
• Seminar Hours
• Accreditation and Continuing Education Units
• Travel and Accommodations
• Cancellation Policy
• Federal Government Employee Discounts
• On-Site Delivery

Registration Fee

3 days / 1.8 CEUs / 18 PDUs
Nonmembers $2,095 / AMA Members $1,895 / GSA $1,623

Schedule

We have 17 scheduled sessions located nationwide starting between August 4, 2008 and April 20, 2009.

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