OVERVIEW - Project Management

The DI Project Management program provides participants with the methodologies, tools, and templates to assure them success in the planning, development, execution and achievement of projects. The program is designed to enable Project Managers and team members to identify the business case for a project; secure project sponsorship and resources; anticipate and plan for contingencies and organizational impact; and establish clear metrics for project success and a return on investment of company resources.

The program is based on the premise that the most basic principle of project management is not just identifying what needs to happen, what plan you need, but what supports project managers and team members in how to successfully achieve results through people. Additionally, since most successful project management requires stewardship for:

  • creating the overall vision and purpose,
  • clearly communicating the direction,
  • and determining, clarifying, and supporting roles and responsibilities.

    • the Project Management workshop uses a blended learning approach to focuses on the key competencies associated with successful project managers.

    OBJECTIVES

    • To provide a new set of work practices, methodologies, and processes so that employees who have responsibility for initiating, executing and managing projects are more focused, more productive, and have a new ability to deliver desired results.
    • To enable project managers and team members to align their activities and actions around what will forward the objectives and commitments of their respective projects and the entire organization.
    • To enable managers and their team members to work together more effectively, and to continually increase their effectiveness in delivering projects with the highest quality standards.
    • To alleviate the sense of stress and overwhelm that comes from juggling competing projects, demands, priorities and deadlines, and give managers new capacities for managing work/life balance.

    As a result of the program, participants will learn to:

    • Identify and present the business case to support project initiation, acceptance and sponsorship; with clearly stated objectives, deliverables and return on investment.
    • Utilize a potent system and method for managing the Project Management Life Cycle--from formulation, concentration, momentum, stability and completion.
    • Make use of specific practices and tools that result in more effective management of time, tasks, people and other resources.
    • Gain the power and confidence to effectively communicate so that project team members have clarity and certainty around project objectives, deliverables, action items, roles and responsibilities, and organizational impact.
    • Develop processes to assess, plan for and anticipate the “trickle, ripple and domino” effect of actions within the organization.
    • Identify key elements of project team’s communication plan to ensure that specific messages are delivered and understood to stakeholders.
    • Incorporate key Return on Investment metrics at various phases of the Project Management Life Cycle.