Build a concise delivery plan for big data decision support projects that colleagues can follow without further explanation.
Managing Big Data Analysis Projects to Support Strategic Decisions
Develop the judgement and the documentation needed to run big data decision support projects properly.
📍 Abu Dhabi🗓️ 5 training days📚 4 modules🎓 Accredited certificate
5intensive training days
4scientific modules
8training sessions
32detailed points
Course Overview
The estimate for big data decision support projects that nobody challenged is usually the one that fails. Scope on support projects expands through small agreements made in isolation. Participants gain a clear basis for measuring what the wider project and portfolio delivery agenda has actually achieved. The course sets out a working method for big data decision support projects that participants can apply the week they return. Buying a tool rarely fixes this strand of project and portfolio delivery; the underlying capability has to be built internally first. Applied research in project and portfolio delivery consistently shows that early structure around support projects reduces downstream rework. The level assumes working familiarity with the project but no prior formal training in big data decision support projects. Every module pairs a short input on support projects with structured practice on the participant's own material. The course ends by identifying what the participant will stop doing to make the project and portfolio delivery capability sustainable.
Expected Learning Outcomes
Control change to support projects so every variation has a price and a decision.
Build a schedule for big data decision support projects with a genuine critical path and realistic durations.
Manage stakeholders of support projects according to influence and interest.
Communicate the purpose of big data decision support projects to those who have to comply with it.
Manage dependencies between support projects and other initiatives.
Translate policy on big data decision support projects into procedures that hold up under day-to-day pressure.
Who Should Attend
Business change managers handling adoption of big data decision support projects.
Project sponsors accountable for the outcome of support projects.
Team members preparing to take on project responsibility for big data decision support projects.
Risk managers supporting support projects.
Specialists advising senior management on big data decision support projects.
Procurement and contracting staff whose agreements set obligations around support projects.
Course Modules
Big data decision support projects: governance, gates and decision rights
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Managing suppliers delivering part of big data decision support projects
- Agree the escalation threshold for big data decision support projects in advance.
- Register the risks to support projects with owner, probability and impact.
- Set out the decisions in big data decision support projects that require sign-off and by whom.
- Define how the benefit from support projects will be measured after closure.
Session 2Handing over support projects and proving the benefit
- Review at each gate whether big data decision support projects should continue at all.
- Confirm that those complying with support projects understand why it exists.
- Compare the cost of big data decision support projects with the cost of its absence.
- Archive the decision record for support projects so successors understand it.
Support projects: change control and variation
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Who answers for support projects, and to whom
- Decide what will be stopped to create capacity for big data decision support projects.
- Estimate the resource support projects requires to run as designed.
- Define the decision gates for big data decision support projects and what evidence each requires.
- Identify single points of dependency in support projects and reduce them.
Session 2Pricing every change to support projects
- Plan handover of big data decision support projects to the team that will operate it.
- Write the scope statement for support projects including explicit exclusions.
- Measure progress on big data decision support projects by value earned, not tasks ticked.
- Hold a lessons session on support projects while memory is accurate.
Support projects: schedule, critical path and realistic duration
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1The cost of support projects and how to present it
- Set the change control process for big data decision support projects and require cost and time impact.
- Build reporting on support projects that surfaces problems while they are small.
- Estimate big data decision support projects using two independent methods and reconcile the difference.
- Confirm that reporting on support projects reaches the people who can act.
Session 2Writing the scope of big data decision support projects including what is excluded
- Define acceptance criteria for each deliverable of big data decision support projects.
- Prepare the summary of support projects that senior management will read.
- Benchmark the organisation's big data decision support projects against comparable operations.
- Record what was learned when support projects did not go as planned.
Support projects: estimating cost and effort
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Keeping stakeholders of support projects genuinely supportive
- Reduce the variation in how big data decision support projects is carried out between teams.
- Test the procedure for support projects against a realistic scenario.
- Establish the boundary of big data decision support projects and record what sits outside it.
- Identify the critical path through support projects and the float elsewhere.
Session 2Building the method for support projects step by step
- Draft the minimum viable delivery plan for big data decision support projects.
- Manage supplier performance on support projects against contract, not goodwill.
- Identify the data already collected that bears on big data decision support projects.
- Write down the assumptions underpinning the approach to support projects.
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- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
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- Workshop or Program Participation
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- Supervision & Secretarial Services
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- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
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