Extreme Project Management

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3 day(s) , 18 instructional hours

About This Event:

Traditional project management models, tools and bureaucracy simply don't work and often backfire on projects that many would describe as chaotic: those complex, volatile adventures characterized by high speed, high change, high unpredictability, and high stress. Now there are agile and intuitive project management frameworks proven to work: approaches that result in quick ramp-up, enable adaptation to sudden opportunities and risks, and reduce time-to-profit. This interactive, experiential workshop addresses the unique challenges of extreme projects.

Recommended For:

This event is designed for project managers, program managers, team members, and project sponsors who are expected to succeed on projects that are deadline driven and/or feature high speed, high change, and high uncertainty. Implementations of eXtreme project management are thriving in information systems, research, new product development, and process re-engineering environments across all industry sectors. No previous training in project management is required to reap the benefits of this workshop.

You Will:

Learn how to manage both the mechanics and the dynamics of an extreme project.
Leave with the know-how and skills to maintain control and deliver business value in the face of volatility.
Experience a holistic project management method, one that's built on a proven foundation of principles, shared values and Critical Success Factors that are essential for succeeding on today's ultra-demanding projects.

Topics Covered Include:

How to apply the tools of extreme project management from planning through execution
The extreme project management infrastructure
The 4 accelerators for unleashing motivation and innovation
The 10 shared values for building the confidence and trust needed to succeed
The 4 business questions for ensuring that bottomline benefits are delivered to the project sponsor
The 5 critical success factors that comprise best practices in self-mastery, leadership by commitment, flexible project process, real-time communication, and organizational agility
Communication infrastructure capabilities needed to accelerate the rapid flow of information and decision-making
How to improve self-mastery: the ability to lead oneself in the face of adversity
Extreme project management templates that you can take back for immediate use.

Additional Information:

This event is an elective for the Project Management Certificate.

Instructor(s):

Instruction Provided by the Lewis Institute, Inc.

The Lewis Institute has built a reputation for delivering practical, hands-on instruction that provides tools and techniques you can use immediately upon leaving the seminars to manage your own projects. The Lewis Institute insists that all of their instructors have real-world experience managing projects, so that they can go beyond the workbook content and answer your questions. Questions such as, "What to you do when....?" and "How do you handle a situation in which...?" These are the kinds of concerns that people have when they attend our programs; they want more than a textbook answer - they want "meat and potatoes."

You will also find the instructors very generous with their time in answering questions both during the class and after it is over. They freely give their email addresses to their clients and invite them to correspond with them. They treat you as a client, not a customer. The difference - a client is someone you care for, whereas a customer is simply someone who buys from you. The Lewis Institute is proud of their reputation and pleased to be working with the Office of Professional Development and the Industrial Extension Service to bring you the finest continuing education experience that you will find anywhere.