Track progress on event and conference project management by earned value rather than by activity completed.
Managing Major Event and International Conference Projects
Move event and conference project management from general awareness to a repeatable, reviewable practice.
📍 Abu Dhabi🗓️ 5 training days📚 4 modules🎓 Accredited certificate
5intensive training days
4scientific modules
8training sessions
32detailed points
Course Overview
The estimate for event and conference project management that nobody challenged is usually the one that fails. Stakeholders withdraw support for project management quietly before they withdraw it formally. It is pitched for practitioners with responsibility for this aspect of project and portfolio delivery, not for observers of it. Buying a tool rarely fixes event and conference project management; the underlying capability has to be built internally first. Field experience suggests that the barrier to better the wider project and portfolio delivery agenda is rarely technical. They acquire practical criteria for judging when project management is working and when it is only appearing to. The programme converts event and conference project management from an area of general awareness into a set of repeatable practices. The teaching approach is deliberately practical: participants build a delivery plan for project management as they go. The programme ends where implementation begins, with this aspect of project and portfolio delivery broken into steps someone can start on Monday.
Expected Learning Outcomes
Define the scope and boundaries of project management so that responsibility for it is unambiguous.
Set a realistic target state for event and conference project management and a defensible route to it.
Agree the first three actions on project management that will be taken on returning to work.
Manage dependencies between event and conference project management and other initiatives.
Plan resource and capacity for project management against other commitments.
Close event and conference project management properly and capture lessons while they are still accurate.
Who Should Attend
Public sector officials applying event and conference project management within a regulated framework.
Risk managers supporting project management.
Project managers responsible for event and conference project management.
Project sponsors accountable for the outcome of project management.
Experienced practitioners formalising an approach to event and conference project management that has grown up informally.
Client and stakeholder representatives monitoring project management.
Course Modules
Event and conference project management: scope definition and exclusions
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1The cost of event and conference project management and how to present it
- Compare resource demand from event and conference project management against other commitments.
- Check that records of project management answer the questions likely to be asked.
- Build reporting on event and conference project management that surfaces problems while they are small.
- Manage supplier performance on project management against contract, not goodwill.
Session 2Estimating project management without anchoring on the answer wanted
- Define acceptance criteria for each deliverable of event and conference project management.
- Estimate project management using two independent methods and reconcile the difference.
- Define the trigger that would require event and conference project management to be redesigned.
- Archive the decision record for project management so successors understand it.
Project management: schedule, critical path and realistic duration
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Building a schedule for project management with a real critical path
- Compare the cost of event and conference project management with the cost of its absence.
- Agree the indicators that will show whether project management is improving.
- Rank the weaknesses in event and conference project management by consequence rather than by ease of fixing.
- Decide what will be stopped to create capacity for project management.
Session 2Keeping stakeholders of project management genuinely supportive
- Set the review interval for event and conference project management and who attends.
- Plan handover of project management to the team that will operate it.
- Record what was learned when event and conference project management did not go as planned.
- Agree the escalation threshold for project management in advance.
Project management: governance, gates and decision rights
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1What to measure in project management and what to ignore
- Define acceptance criteria for event and conference project management in advance.
- Build the internal briefing that explains project management to those affected.
- Measure progress on event and conference project management by value earned, not tasks ticked.
- Define the decision gates for project management and what evidence each requires.
Session 2Testing event and conference project management before relying on it
- Review at each gate whether event and conference project management should continue at all.
- Define how the benefit from project management will be measured after closure.
- Prepare the recovery plan for event and conference project management before it is needed.
- Estimate the resource project management requires to run as designed.
Project management: risk identification, quantification and ownership
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Measuring progress on project management honestly
- Map stakeholders of event and conference project management by influence and current level of support.
- Identify the data already collected that bears on project management.
- Establish who is informed, consulted and accountable in event and conference project management.
- Set the change control process for project management and require cost and time impact.
Session 2Writing the scope of project management including what is excluded
- Test the procedure for event and conference project management against a realistic scenario.
- Distinguish symptoms from causes when project management underperforms.
- Agree the smallest change to event and conference project management that would be visibly useful.
- Identify the critical path through project management and the float elsewhere.
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Silver Package
At least 3 people
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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