Why projects fail. Three lifewheels.

Why should you consider the course?

Known recipe for a successful project like:

– appointing professional project managers;

– appointing a competent project team;

– developing a coherent project blueprint;

– and the use of appropriate project tools, it doesn’t work.
70% of projects around the world fail (soucre: Standish Group). Even if these principles are fully followed.

Why is this happening? What is missing?

Because there are three traps that a project manager and his team can fall into.

These are:

1) Endless, sometimes chronic and chimerical changes in project goals, scope, specifications, schedule, budget;

2) Unexpected deviations from the plan. People basically know how to run a project when things go well. When things go badly – they don’t necessarily deal with it anymore;

3) Failure to meet deadlines and deliver expected results despite project monitoring;

The course is very practical.

I will share with you three lifewheels for projects.

All will be presented using my own experience.

What will you learn in this course?

– How to manage project changes in advance using the Trade Off Matrix technique;

– how to manage deviations using the Deviation Baseball Game model;

– how to ensure the desired project pace using the Short Interval Control (SIC) mechanism;

– how to increase your individual project success rate;

Who should attend the course?

I. Beginners who are starting their adventure in project management

II. Practitioners who have quite a bit of experience in projects

III. Project management trainers and mentors

IV. Students of business, management, economics

What is needed to take the course?

– only very basic knowledge of projects

– no certificates are required

How is the course organized?

Each individual project lifebelt will be presented in 6 steps:

1. A brief introduction about the tool

2. Several examples illustrating how the tool works

3. The instructor’s own cases on the use of the tool

4. Summary of knowledge and its verification through a quiz

5. 2-3 real cases to be solved by the participant

6. Additional reading on the tool to be downloaded

Why me?

In my 30 years in business, I delivered 50 large-scale projects as a project manager.

These included:

– transformation projects

– Improvement projects (Lean, SixSigma)

– Modeling of managerial decisions

– Changing the size of the organization

– Changing cultural mentality

Across business sectors:

– Medical Devices & Diagnostics

– Banking & Investment Finance

– Shared services

– Business consulting

Who this course is for:

• Beginners: you are embarking on your first project and are concerned about whether you can get it right.
• Experienced practitioners: you have knowledge and experience in project management. You still face challenges, difficulties and would like to find a good recipe on how to deal with them.
• Mentors: you teach, offer coaching and mentoring to your project managers. You are looking for good, proven methods to help them grow in project management.
• Students: you are studying business, management and would like to acquire proven, practical project management knowledge to become a project management professional in the future.