Establish quality acceptance criteria for the deliverables of mobile application projects.
Managing Mobile Application Projects from Concept to Store Launch
A concise, decision-focused programme covering mobile application projects end to end.
Course Overview
The estimate for mobile application projects that nobody challenged is usually the one that fails. Projects involving the project and portfolio delivery discipline are rarely late all at once; they are late a day at a time. It is pitched for practitioners with responsibility for the practice within project and portfolio delivery, not for observers of it. The method assumes participants will be challenged on their handling of mobile application projects and prepares them for it. Moving the wider project and portfolio delivery agenda from written policy into daily practice is not achieved by a single decision. They gain the ability to sequence improvements to this aspect of project and portfolio delivery in an order their organisation can absorb. Organisations that document mobile application projects properly resolve disputes about it far more quickly. Content is organised around the decisions practitioners actually face in this area of project and portfolio delivery, not around theory headings. Work concludes with a self-assessment of the wider project and portfolio delivery agenda that participants can repeat annually.
Expected Learning Outcomes
Set a realistic target state for mobile application projects and a defensible route to it.
Assign clear ownership for each element of mobile application projects across the functions involved.
Recognise early indicators that mobile application projects is drifting away from its intended design.
Build the reporting on mobile application projects that gives early warning rather than reassurance.
Design the governance and decision rights for mobile application projects.
Track progress on mobile application projects by earned value rather than by activity completed.
Who Should Attend
Technical leads delivering work packages within mobile application projects.
Experienced practitioners formalising an approach to mobile application projects that has grown up informally.
Project management office staff assuring mobile application projects.
Programme and portfolio managers overseeing mobile application projects.
Client and stakeholder representatives monitoring mobile application projects.
Planning staff whose forecasts and budgets are affected by mobile application projects.
Course Modules
Mobile application projects: governance, gates and decision rights
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Estimating mobile application projects without anchoring on the answer wanted
- Measure progress on mobile application projects by value earned, not tasks ticked.
- Build reporting on mobile application projects that surfaces problems while they are small.
- Agree the escalation threshold for mobile application projects in advance.
- Rehearse the briefing on mobile application projects that would follow an incident.
Session 2Decision gates on mobile application projects that can actually stop it
- Map stakeholders of mobile application projects by influence and current level of support.
- Identify single points of dependency in mobile application projects and reduce them.
- Define the decision gates for mobile application projects and what evidence each requires.
- Compare resource demand from mobile application projects against other commitments.
Mobile application projects: estimating cost and effort
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1The decisions in mobile application projects that cannot be delegated
- Register the risks to mobile application projects with owner, probability and impact.
- Plan handover of mobile application projects to the team that will operate it.
- Prepare the recovery plan for mobile application projects before it is needed.
- Set escalation thresholds for mobile application projects that work out of hours.
Session 2Measuring progress on mobile application projects honestly
- Compare the cost of mobile application projects with the cost of its absence.
- Estimate mobile application projects using two independent methods and reconcile the difference.
- Agree the smallest change to mobile application projects that would be visibly useful.
- Estimate the resource mobile application projects requires to run as designed.
Mobile application projects: procurement, contracts and suppliers
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Handing over mobile application projects and proving the benefit
- Reduce the variation in how mobile application projects is carried out between teams.
- Build the internal briefing that explains mobile application projects to those affected.
- Define acceptance criteria for mobile application projects in advance.
- Draft the minimum viable delivery plan for mobile application projects.
Session 2Closing mobile application projects and capturing what was learned
- Identify the critical path through mobile application projects and the float elsewhere.
- Agree the indicators that will show whether mobile application projects is improving.
- Set out how exceptions to mobile application projects are requested and approved.
- Verify six months later that changes to mobile application projects have held.
Mobile application projects: change control and variation
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Getting other functions to support mobile application projects
- Define acceptance criteria for each deliverable of mobile application projects.
- Review at each gate whether mobile application projects should continue at all.
- Establish who is informed, consulted and accountable in mobile application projects.
- Manage supplier performance on mobile application projects against contract, not goodwill.
Session 2Escalation and decision rights in mobile application projects
- Identify the data already collected that bears on mobile application projects.
- Test the procedure for mobile application projects against a realistic scenario.
- Write the scope statement for mobile application projects including explicit exclusions.
- Archive the decision record for mobile application projects so successors understand it.
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- Supervision & Secretarial Services
- Accredited Certificate of Participation
- Complete Training Kit
- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
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- 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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