Course Length: 2 days
PMBOK® Guide Knowledge Areas Covered:

• Project Communications Management
• Project Human Resource Management
• Project Integration Management
• Project Quality Management
• Project Scope Management
• Project Time Management

Course ID: PM48322

Course Overview

This course is designed for experienced project managers who are responsible for recovering out of control projects. Learn techniques to recover existing projects and to understand the early warning indicators that a project is heading in the wrong direction. Participants will team together to apply techniques learned from the lectures.

Key Outcomes

Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:

• Learn how to perform an effective and objective assessment of the project status
• Develop techniques to recover projects based on the triple constraints
• Manage team and management buy-in during the recovery process
• Devise control mechanisms to ensure projects stay within predefined project constraints
• Understand how to identify a project that's in trouble EARLY
• Leverage communication techniques to assist in the recovery success
• Learn how to manage project stakeholder expectations
• Take advantage of a detailed checklist to be customized for YOUR work environment

Course Outline

Quick Assessments

• Sponsorship
• Customer commitment
• Project team status
• Analyzing your current situation

Finding and evaluating buy-in

• Re-establishing buy-in
• Understanding team loyalty
• Identifying aligned stakeholders
• Team involvement

Examining critical and victory paths

• Identifying resources necessary for critical path completion
• Clarifying critical path milestones
• Understanding victory path items
• Re-setting the project plan

The Communication Plan

• Assessing the existing plan
• Accuracy and relevance of status reporting
• Techniques to re-tool the communication plan
• Getting the word out!

Leveraging Staff

• Identifying the skills that do exist
• Matching tasks with prevalent skills

Developing your own evaluation checklist