Introduction:
Project managers juggle many projects simultaneously in today’s fast-paced environment. Managing multiple projects and prioritizing competing demands requires effective delegation and strategies for monitoring and controlling.
Course Objectives:
By the end of this Managing Multiple Projects Training course, you will be able to:
- Manage stakeholder relationships and expectations.
- Prioritize and sequence multiple projects.
- Manage time and stress within a multi-project environment.
- Effectively navigate the multi-project environment.
- Use appropriate methods to plan and control multiple projects.
- Apply scheduling and estimating techniques.
- Maintain a dynamic multi-project schedule.
Who Should Attend?
Managing Multiple Projects Training course is intended for anyone who:
- Manages a single project that is affected by other projects within his/her organization.
- Participates in or leads resource assignment.
- Makes decisions across multiple projects, and/or supports portfolio management decision-making processes for the selection and prioritization of projects.
- Manages multiple projects at his/her company.
Course Outlines:
Getting Started
- Introductions.
- Course structure.
- Course goals and objectives.
Foundation Concepts
- Portfolio, program, and project management principles.
- The multiple project environment.
- The MMP Process Model.
Developing the Multi-Project List
- Multi-project portfolio management.
- Project selection.
- Project categories and types.
- The multi-project list.
Multi-Project Logical Dependencies
- Project dependencies.
- Types of multi-project portfolios.
- Categories of logical dependencies across multiple projects.
- Project priorities in the multi-project schedule.
Multi-Project Resource Management
- Multi-project resources and resource management concepts.
- Multi-project resource loading.
- Resource pool and resource database.
- Multi-project resource issues and outsourcing.
- Critical chain resource management, including drum resources and multi-tasking.
Managing Risk Across Multiple Projects
- Multi-project risk management process.
- Identifying, assessing, and responding to multi-project risks.
- Critical chain and multi-project risks.
- Risk interrelationship management methods.
Creating and Executing the Multi-Project Plan
- The multi-project plan.
- Multi-project scheduling.
- Multi-project budgeting.
- Executing and maintaining the multi-project plan.
- Controlling in the multi-project environment.
- Tools in multi-project management.
Multi-Project Communications
- Effective communication in the multi-project environment.
- Common communication barriers.
- Multiple project communications plan.
- Resolving multi-project conflicts.