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• Aligning Project Management with Organisational Strategy
• Guiding Organisational Change
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• Leading Project Managers: A Guide to Success
• Managing Global Projects
• Program Management
• Rapid Assessment and Recovery of Troubled Projects
• Leading High Performance Teams
• Requirements Management: A Key to Project Success

Managing Global Projects

Course Duration: 3 Days (8:30am-5:00pm)

Professional Development Units (PDU): 22.5

Continuous Professional Development Points (CPD): 15

You'll Learn How To:

• Distinguish the unique characteristics of a borderless or global project effort
• Identify the elements of a global project plan needed to lay the foundation for success in dealing with the challenges inherent in global projects
• Incorporate global project environmental factors into your risk management plan
• Systematically approach and address the unique issues surrounding the management of global projects

PMBOK® Knowledge Areas:

Project Integration Management Project Risk Management Project Scope Management Project Human Resource Management Project Quality Management Project Procurement Management Project Time Management Project Communications Management Project Cost Management

Program Objectives:

Global trends are reshaping the competitive dimensions in the world and are driving the need for increased use of borderless, or global, project management. The management of the global projects cuts across organizational and national borders. To be successful, project managers must be prepared to overcome a unique set of obstacles. Special challenges arise from differences in cultures, mores, tradition, values, philosophies and languages of the project partners. In addition, attitudes of the project team in each of the partner organizations take on added importance. The financial risks and implications of the project can be immense, extending far beyond the financial capabilities of any one partner operating independently. Competition in the global marketplace is becoming dependent on using consistent organizational processes throughout the global community.

In Managing Global Projects, you'll learn how to systematically approach these complex global management issues as well as how to minimize the risks inherent in doing business in the worldwide marketplace. Through an interactive case study based upon real-world scenarios, you'll experience what it really takes to manage a typical global project. You'll develop an understanding of the many unique problems inherent in managing a global project and explore ways to solve them. The case study and exercises provide a clear roadmap for initiating, planning, implementing, controlling and successfully closing out a global project.

You will also get numerous tips, templates and tools that you can apply to any of your global efforts.

Participants will receive a copy of Global Project Management Handbook by David Cleland and Roland Gareis.

Reminder: Participants should already have an understanding of project management tools and techniques.

Course Outline:

1. Overview of Global Project Management Characteristics of global projects Global project management challenges Global project management skills
2. Initiating Global Projects Identifying global business opportunities Criteria for selecting a global project Global risks and threats Conducting a pre-project country study
3. Planning Global Projects Defining global project requirements and scope The Global Scope Management Plan The Staffing Management Plan and the project team Risk management planning for globally dispersed projects
4. Implementing Global Projects Political, social, economic, infrastructure, legal and industry-specific considerations Joint ventures and strategic alliances Negotiation norms and styles Intellectual property rights and laws Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA)
5. Controlling Global Projects Complexity factors in controlling global projects Characteristics of an effective project control system Organisational considerations for controlling projects across multiple countries Schedule, cost and quality control in global projects
6. Closing Global Projects Closing out a global project Challenges of financial and administrative closeout of a global project Repatriation challenges Documenting lessons learned
7. Avoiding Troubled Projects Project management skills and methodology Classic mistakes Continuous improvement systems Reviews

Course Schedule and Fees

Prices below are indicative of Public Courses Only. Discounts apply for groups and on site training. Please call ESI to discuss.