The Advanced Project Leadership Series consists of Organization, Strategy and Business Needs, Navigating Corporate Structures, Bringing Home the Value, and Selling Project Management to the Organization.

Organization, Strategy and Business Needs teaches project managers how to be successful managing high profile projects in large corporations by learning how to navigate different organization types, and what role project management plays in the different organization types. You will acquire the skills necessary to determine company strategy and the process to use that knowledge to determine whether or not the project supports company strategy. Lastly, you will learn what questions to use when preparing a Project Charter that is consistent with company strategy.

Navigating Corporate Structures teaches the project managers how to understand the corporate environment, in particular as it relates to high-profile projects. First, you will learn how to identify different types of stakeholders, and how they may influence the project. You will learn how to deal with stakeholders Hidden Agendas. You will also learn about project sponsors, and how their position in an organizations structure affects their responsibilities towards a project. You will also learn how to help the inexperienced sponsor be successful. Finally, you will learn how to execute projects in a Functional Organization, the most prevalent and difficult environment for project management.

Bringing Home the Value teaches project managers to consider both the monetary and non-monetary value of a project, first of all by understanding how a project supports strategy. Project Managers will learn how to calculate Earned Value, Return on Investment and Net Present Value. They will also learn how to interpret the results to make decisions about the value of a project. Finally, project managers will learn about the characteristics of Internal, Client and Research and Development Projects and how the valuation techniques apply to each.

Selling project management to the organization focuses selling project management to senior executives. This course explores the problems faced when implementing project management, the value of project management, while identifying the barriers faced when selling project management to senior executives. This course will also discuss the process for implementing project management as project.

User will be setup on the IP System 3 learning site for a post test, PMI certificate of completion for PDU credit (70% of higher score) and a course evaluation. The certificate can be printed directly from the learning site. The training documentation will be kept on record for one year in our office as part of the PMI REP requirements.

Objectives

• Learn organization, strategic and business needs for high profile projects
• Understand the corporate environment and how it relates to high profile projects.
• Learn how to determine monetary and non-monetary values of a project.
• Understand the problems faced when implementing project management to senior mangers.
• Identify effective methods for selling project management to senior executives.