Control change to public sector project management so every variation has a price and a decision.
Managing Government and Public Sector Projects: Challenges and Solutions
Develop the judgement and the documentation needed to run public sector project management properly.
📍 Istanbul🗓️ 5 training days📚 4 modules🎓 Accredited certificate
5intensive training days
4scientific modules
8training sessions
32detailed points
Course Overview
The estimate for public sector project management that nobody challenged is usually the one that fails. Stakeholders withdraw support for project management quietly before they withdraw it formally. Participants finish able to explain the project and portfolio delivery capability to a non-specialist audience without losing precision. Discussion is anchored to worked examples of public sector project management rather than to abstract argument. Most organisations already have a policy on the wider project and portfolio delivery agenda; far fewer can show it working. Comparative studies of project management across sectors find the same handful of failure points recurring. The content is relevant to those who own public sector project management and to those who are held accountable for its results. The programme takes participants through project management end to end, from framing the problem to closing it out. Participants leave with a plan for the project and portfolio delivery discipline sized to what their organisation can realistically absorb.
Expected Learning Outcomes
Assess whether project management should continue at each decision gate.
Translate policy on public sector project management into procedures that hold up under day-to-day pressure.
Manage dependencies between project management and other initiatives.
Set acceptance criteria for public sector project management before work begins rather than after.
Close project management properly and capture lessons while they are still accurate.
Adapt recognised practice on public sector project management to local constraints without hollowing it out.
Who Should Attend
Project managers responsible for public sector project management.
Programme and portfolio managers overseeing project management.
Client and stakeholder representatives monitoring public sector project management.
Contract and procurement staff supporting project management.
Internal auditors reviewing how public sector project management is designed and operated.
Those responsible for briefing external stakeholders on project management.
Course Modules
Public sector project management: procurement, contracts and suppliers
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Managing suppliers delivering part of public sector project management
- Plan the sequence in which improvements to public sector project management will be introduced.
- Write the scope statement for project management including explicit exclusions.
- Agree the indicators that will show whether public sector project management is improving.
- Define acceptance criteria for each deliverable of project management.
Session 2Making project management work when resources are constrained
- Identify single points of dependency in public sector project management and reduce them.
- Set the change control process for project management and require cost and time impact.
- Record what was learned when public sector project management did not go as planned.
- Estimate project management using two independent methods and reconcile the difference.
Project management: schedule, critical path and realistic duration
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Building the method for project management step by step
- Prepare the recovery plan for public sector project management before it is needed.
- Define the decision gates for project management and what evidence each requires.
- Agree what will be standardised in public sector project management and what will not.
- Distinguish symptoms from causes when project management underperforms.
Session 2The risks to project management nobody wants to raise
- Hold a lessons session on public sector project management while memory is accurate.
- Prepare the summary of project management that senior management will read.
- Define acceptance criteria for public sector project management in advance.
- Map the handovers in project management between functions and secure them.
Project management: scope definition and exclusions
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Getting other functions to support project management
- Agree the escalation threshold for public sector project management in advance.
- Confirm that contractual obligations around project management are understood.
- Identify the critical path through public sector project management and the float elsewhere.
- Build reporting on project management that surfaces problems while they are small.
Session 2Building a schedule for public sector project management with a real critical path
- Measure progress on public sector project management by value earned, not tasks ticked.
- Archive the decision record for project management so successors understand it.
- Draft the minimum viable delivery plan for public sector project management.
- Identify the data already collected that bears on project management.
Project management: progress measurement and early warning
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Handing over project management and proving the benefit
- Benchmark the organisation's public sector project management against comparable operations.
- Register the risks to project management with owner, probability and impact.
- Manage supplier performance on public sector project management against contract, not goodwill.
- Establish who is informed, consulted and accountable in project management.
Session 2Decision gates on project management that can actually stop it
- Review at each gate whether public sector project management should continue at all.
- Agree the smallest change to project management that would be visibly useful.
- Plan handover of public sector project management to the team that will operate it.
- Decide what will be stopped to create capacity for project management.
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USD1,250
- 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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At least 3 people
USD1,850
- 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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