Build a register of the risks attaching to subscription product launch projects and keep it current.
Managing Digital Subscription Product Launch Projects for Markets
Turn subscription product launch projects from a stated policy into a practice your organisation can evidence.
Course Overview
A schedule for subscription product launch projects without a critical path is a wish list with dates. Projects involving launch projects are rarely late all at once; they are late a day at a time. They leave able to brief senior management on the practice within project and portfolio delivery in terms that support a decision. Teams frequently over-invest in documenting subscription product launch projects and under-invest in testing it. Where this strand of project and portfolio delivery is measured, it improves; where it is only discussed, it drifts. The method assumes participants will be challenged on their handling of launch projects and prepares them for it. Participants come from operational and oversight roles, and both perspectives on subscription product launch projects are used deliberately. The programme takes participants through launch projects end to end, from framing the problem to closing it out. Participants leave with a first-ninety-days plan for the practice within project and portfolio delivery rather than a set of notes.
Expected Learning Outcomes
Estimate cost and effort for launch projects using more than one method.
Distinguish the parts of subscription product launch projects that must be standardised from those that require judgement.
Manage dependencies between launch projects and other initiatives.
Adapt recognised practice on subscription product launch projects to local constraints without hollowing it out.
Control change to launch projects so every variation has a price and a decision.
Manage stakeholders of subscription product launch projects according to influence and interest.
Who Should Attend
Contract and procurement staff supporting subscription product launch projects.
Project sponsors accountable for the outcome of launch projects.
Business partners who must understand subscription product launch projects well enough to challenge it.
Procurement and contracting staff whose agreements set obligations around launch projects.
Technical leads delivering work packages within subscription product launch projects.
Planners and schedulers building the timeline for launch projects.
Course Modules
Subscription product launch projects: estimating cost and effort
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1The decisions in subscription product launch projects that cannot be delegated
- Define acceptance criteria for subscription product launch projects in advance.
- Plan handover of launch projects to the team that will operate it.
- Identify where judgement in subscription product launch projects is legitimate and where it is not.
- Measure progress on launch projects by value earned, not tasks ticked.
Session 2Writing the scope of launch projects including what is excluded
- Review at each gate whether subscription product launch projects should continue at all.
- Set out the decisions in launch projects that require sign-off and by whom.
- Manage supplier performance on subscription product launch projects against contract, not goodwill.
- Record the rationale for each significant choice made about launch projects.
Launch projects: change control and variation
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1What to measure in launch projects and what to ignore
- Identify single points of dependency in subscription product launch projects and reduce them.
- Agree the escalation threshold for launch projects in advance.
- Agree what will be standardised in subscription product launch projects and what will not.
- Set the change control process for launch projects and require cost and time impact.
Session 2Pricing every change to launch projects
- Compare resource demand from subscription product launch projects against other commitments.
- Estimate launch projects using two independent methods and reconcile the difference.
- Map the handovers in subscription product launch projects between functions and secure them.
- Estimate the resource launch projects requires to run as designed.
Launch projects: governance, gates and decision rights
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Recovering launch projects when it is behind
- Define acceptance criteria for each deliverable of subscription product launch projects.
- Define the decision gates for launch projects and what evidence each requires.
- Establish what evidence demonstrates subscription product launch projects is under control.
- Distinguish symptoms from causes when launch projects underperforms.
Session 2The risks to subscription product launch projects nobody wants to raise
- Set out how exceptions to subscription product launch projects are requested and approved.
- Define the trigger that would require launch projects to be redesigned.
- Remove steps in subscription product launch projects that add effort without adding assurance.
- Identify the critical path through launch projects and the float elsewhere.
Launch projects: scope definition and exclusions
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Decision gates on launch projects that can actually stop it
- Establish the boundary of subscription product launch projects and record what sits outside it.
- Record what was learned when launch projects did not go as planned.
- Map stakeholders of subscription product launch projects by influence and current level of support.
- Reduce the variation in how launch projects is carried out between teams.
Session 2Escalation and decision rights in launch projects
- Write the scope statement for subscription product launch projects including explicit exclusions.
- Hold a lessons session on launch projects while memory is accurate.
- Prepare the recovery plan for subscription product launch projects before it is needed.
- Archive the decision record for launch projects so successors understand it.
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- Workshop or Program Participation
- Airport Transfers
- Customized Badge
- Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
- Supervision & Secretarial Services
- Accredited Certificate of Participation
- Complete Training Kit
- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
Gold Package
At least 3 people
- 5-night stay in a 5-star hotel
- Workshop or Program Participation
- Airport Transfers
- Customized Badge
- Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
- Supervision & Secretarial Services
- Accredited Certificate of Participation
- Complete Training Kit
- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
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