Duration: 3 Days
In this course, you will learn the concepts, tools, and techniques to be able
to:
- Perform basic trouble
prevention activities early in a project
- Identify areas to focus on to reduce project failures
- Assess project health and identify when a project is in trouble
- Determine the need for project recovery based on a situation's severity
- Present recovery options for a project
- Formulate a recovery plan
- Lead project recovery actions and monitor recovery success
- Stabilize and restore project performance based on redefined objectives
- Conduct a meaningful lessons learned process that can help reduce future project
troubles
Students pursuing a university-recognized and/or accredited certificate in
Canada or continuing education units in the US must attend at least 90% of class
time, participate in class exercises and section-knowledge checks, and score at
least 70% on an end-of-class, multiple-choice assessment.
What You Will Learn
- Concepts and
activities that help prevent troubled events from occurring and contribute to
project success
- How
to check project performance beyond the traditional scope, schedule, and budget
measures
- What is
considered to be a troubled project
- Signs of project trouble and causes of project failure
- Create a project recovery plan to bring the project back to acceptable
performance levels
- Define the recovery targets and goals to ensure stakeholders' alignment and
expectations management
- Execute and monitor a project recovery plan to assess its effectiveness
- Conduct a lessons-learned process to close the cycle and reduce the chance for
future recoveries
Hands-On Exercises
- Perform a Complexity Assessment
- Develop a Readiness Assessment
- Design a
Project Health Measurement Tool
- Make
Recommendations Based on EVM
- Identify
Signs of Project Trouble
- Rank the
Degree of Project Failure
- Plan a
Recovery Assessment Interview
- Perform a
Root Cause Analysis
- Develop a Recovery
Plan Overview
- Assess Recovery Status
- Develop Project Trouble Prevention
Measures
Audience
Associate project managers, project managers, IT project managers, project coordinators, project analysts, project leaders, product managers, and program managers
Prerequistes
Course Outline
1. Project Trouble Prevention
- Managing What Matters
- Project Readiness Assessment
- Project Kickoff Meetings
- Additional Prevention Measures
2. Project Health
Measurement
- Project Health
Assessment
- Project Health
Measurement Tools
- Forecasting Based on Project Health
3. Project
Failure Identification
- Causes of Project Failure
- Recognizing Failure
4. Recovery Initiation
- The Recovery Manager
- The
Recovery Charter
5. Recovery Assessment
- Assessing the Failing Project
- Deciding to Terminate
- The
Recovery Assessment Report
6. Recovery Planning
- Realistic Recovery
- The
Recovery Plan
- The Recovery
Team
- The Recovery Kickoff
- Recovery Success Criteria
7. Recovery Execution
- The Recovery Project
- Recovery Risk Management
- Tips and Guidelines for Recovery Execution
- Sources of Project Trouble
- Decision Making
- Dealing
with Change
8. Recovery Closure
- Stabilization and Restoration
- Knowledge Transfer and Lessons Learned
Course Labs
