Stakeholders withdraw support for project delivery excellence quietly before they withdraw it formally. A schedule for this strand of project and portfolio delivery without a critical path is a wish list with dates. Participants gain a clear basis for measuring what this aspect of project and portfolio delivery has actually achieved. The difficulty is not agreeing that project delivery excellence matters — it is deciding what to stop doing to make room for it. The level assumes working familiarity with the project but no prior formal training in the practice within project and portfolio delivery. Field experience suggests that the barrier to better the wider project and portfolio delivery agenda is rarely technical. This programme builds project delivery excellence from first principles, without padding and without omitting what matters. Sessions alternate between guided analysis of this strand of project and portfolio delivery and supervised application. The final module sets out how progress on the project and portfolio delivery capability will be evidenced six months later.
Expected Learning Outcomes
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Choose the delivery approach for project delivery excellence — predictive, adaptive or hybrid — deliberately.
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Anticipate the objections that project delivery excellence will attract internally and answer them in advance.
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Document decisions about project delivery excellence in a form that remains useful after the people change.
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Plan handover and benefit realisation for project delivery excellence.
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Build the reporting on project delivery excellence that gives early warning rather than reassurance.
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Estimate cost and effort for project delivery excellence using more than one method.
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Integrate project delivery excellence into existing management routines rather than running it separately.
Who Should Attend
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Team leaders and supervisors who put project delivery excellence into practice day to day.
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Team members preparing to take on project responsibility for project delivery excellence.
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Newly appointed managers taking on project delivery excellence for the first time.
