By the end of this Managing and Steering Complex Projects programme you will learn:

• To manage and  steer complexity and change
• Incorporate the science of complexity into project management strategies
• Manage complex projects involving strategic risks
• Apply a complexity assessment model and adaptive process
• Minimise uncertainty by leveraging best practises from Critical Chain, Agile, and Lean approaches
• Upgrade from traditional PPM approaches
• Identify the new generation of projects and programme types 
• Develop your own personal project management style 
• Grasp the advantage of the latest cutting edge research 
• A valuable overview of the current state and future trends in project/programme management.

Managing and Steering Complex Projects programme is ideal for:

• C-suite and senior-level executives seeking an overview of project management as well as insights on choosing the most appropriate project approach based on their strategic objective.
• Highly experienced PMP-certified project managers looking to go deeper than traditional PMP courses and develop their leadership skills in project management.
• Consultants who need the skill to articulate the case for projects and influence multiple stakeholders.
• The programme’s lessons are applicable across most major industries, including banking and finance, consulting, government, infrastructure,

Part 1

Introduction to Steering Complex Projects

• The project initialisation
• The project planning
• Design of project plans, cost estimates and budgets
• Planning of project quality, personnel deployment and communication channels

Part 2

Projects as Strategic Change

• Understand the strategic goals of the organisation and articulate what the project outcomes will contribute to the strategy
• Understand the political process of creating project goals, including negotiating and seeking win-win coalitions
• Translate high level strategic goals into project goals

Part 3

Execution Projects

• Identify the key characteristics of execution projects
• Understand the managerial relevance of the critical path and limitations
• Identify uncertainties and take mitigative or responsive actions

Part 4

Novel Projects

• Identify the key characteristics of novel projects and the technical steps of managing them
• Articulate steps to follow when encountering unforeseeable uncertainty
• Understand pivoting/iterating and parallelism, and how to incorporate them into project planning and monitoring

Part 5

Change Projects

• Identify the four methods for managing a change project
• Generate guidelines for managing the social dimensions of change
• Author a template for stakeholder management

Part 6

Managing People and Teams

• Identify and apply ingredients of goal clarity and three criteria for them
• Articulate competency-driven values for a project
• Analyse how to deal with rule-breakers and high-performers and establish related guidelines

Part 7

Governance

• Understand the role governance plays in maintaining strategic alignment in projects
• Identify the five elements of well-designed governance structures
• Build a framework for managing the governance structure with accountability measures

Part 8

Partners

• Understand what contracts can and cannot do, and identify the four different types of contracts for an appropriate fit
• Understand the role that co-location can play in project management
• Understand how renegotiation must be built into the contract from the beginning

Part 9

Project Communications 

• Channels & Models
• Communications Management Plan
• Manage Communications
• Monitor Communications
• Solutions 

Part 10

Learning and Integration

• Identify the tools for each project type, and how to deploy them
• Make informed choices from the portfolio of tools to ensure projects encourage learning within the organisation
• Apply established methods of knowledge exchange and learning tools in a way that is appropriate to the challenges of a project Monitoring and control of project risks, contract management

RECTUS attendance certificate will be issued to all attendees completing minimum of 80% of the total course duration