Plan resource and capacity for research and development projects against other commitments.
Managing Research, Development and Corporate Innovation Projects
Learn to design, measure and defend your organisation's approach to research and development projects.
📍 Cairo🗓️ 5 training days📚 4 modules🎓 Accredited certificate
5intensive training days
4scientific modules
8training sessions
32detailed points
Course Overview
A schedule for research and development projects without a critical path is a wish list with dates. Most recovery effort on development projects is spent on problems that were visible early. It establishes a shared vocabulary for the project and portfolio delivery capability so that teams can disagree productively about it. A common pattern is strong design of research and development projects paired with weak follow-through. Each session closes with a decision the participant must justify about this area of project and portfolio delivery in their own setting. They leave able to brief senior management on development projects in terms that support a decision. Comparative studies of research and development projects across sectors find the same handful of failure points recurring. The level assumes working familiarity with the project but no prior formal training in development projects. It ends with a prioritised list of changes to this strand of project and portfolio delivery that the participant is prepared to defend internally.
Expected Learning Outcomes
Establish escalation routes for development projects that work outside normal hours.
Build a concise delivery plan for research and development projects that colleagues can follow without further explanation.
Choose the delivery approach for development projects — predictive, adaptive or hybrid — deliberately.
Assign clear ownership for each element of research and development projects across the functions involved.
Control change to development projects so every variation has a price and a decision.
Manage dependencies between research and development projects and other initiatives.
Who Should Attend
Team members preparing to take on project responsibility for research and development projects.
Programme and portfolio managers overseeing development projects.
Planners and schedulers building the timeline for research and development projects.
Planning staff whose forecasts and budgets are affected by development projects.
Anyone whose accountability for research and development projects exceeds their current formal training in it.
Project managers responsible for development projects.
Course Modules
Research and development projects: change control and variation
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Handing over research and development projects and proving the benefit
- Compare the cost of research and development projects with the cost of its absence.
- Write the scope statement for development projects including explicit exclusions.
- Measure progress on research and development projects by value earned, not tasks ticked.
- Define acceptance criteria for each deliverable of development projects.
Session 2Estimating development projects without anchoring on the answer wanted
- Define how the benefit from research and development projects will be measured after closure.
- Set the change control process for development projects and require cost and time impact.
- Agree the escalation threshold for research and development projects in advance.
- Estimate development projects using two independent methods and reconcile the difference.
Development projects: handover, benefits and lessons
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Building a schedule for development projects with a real critical path
- Plan handover of research and development projects to the team that will operate it.
- Map stakeholders of development projects by influence and current level of support.
- Prepare the recovery plan for research and development projects before it is needed.
- Establish what evidence demonstrates development projects is under control.
Session 2What to measure in development projects and what to ignore
- Write down the assumptions underpinning the approach to research and development projects.
- Confirm that contractual obligations around development projects are understood.
- Identify the critical path through research and development projects and the float elsewhere.
- Set out how exceptions to development projects are requested and approved.
Development projects: procurement, contracts and suppliers
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Where development projects typically breaks, and why
- Arrange the handover of research and development projects so capability survives staff changes.
- Build the internal briefing that explains development projects to those affected.
- Register the risks to research and development projects with owner, probability and impact.
- Hold a lessons session on development projects while memory is accurate.
Session 2Pricing every change to research and development projects
- Distinguish symptoms from causes when research and development projects underperforms.
- Set out the decisions in development projects that require sign-off and by whom.
- Review at each gate whether research and development projects should continue at all.
- Record what was learned when development projects did not go as planned.
Development projects: schedule, critical path and realistic duration
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Moving development projects from approval to execution
- Check that records of research and development projects answer the questions likely to be asked.
- Draft the minimum viable delivery plan for development projects.
- Identify the data already collected that bears on research and development projects.
- Prepare the summary of development projects that senior management will read.
Session 2The risks to development projects nobody wants to raise
- Remove steps in research and development projects that add effort without adding assurance.
- Archive the decision record for development projects so successors understand it.
- Record the rationale for each significant choice made about research and development projects.
- Manage supplier performance on development projects against contract, not goodwill.
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- Accredited Certificate of Participation
- Complete Training Kit
- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
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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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