Lessons from the Guide

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Classroom training: 1 day

Webinar: 3 hours

Target audience

• project, program & portfolio managers and coordinators
• project team members
• project management professionals and experts

Description and benefits

Start your galactic journey by hearing what the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Project Management has to offer.

Learn the rules and tools that an experienced project hitchhiker uses when navigating in the vast universe of project management. Address the ultimate question and live without the ultimate answer. You will equally here other Infrequently Asked Questions (IAQs) (credits to PM² Alliance and Methodology).

Guide is freely available for registered users.

Working methods

lectures, tips, warnings and reflections

Prerequisites

none

Program

• Opening words for the project hitchhiker

• Travel arrangements

  • Project objectives and other impossibilities
  • The art of asking the ultimate question (and living without the ultimate answer)
  • Other Infrequently Asked Questions (IAQs)

  • Stakeholders and galactic courtesy rules

• Project planning in the known universe

  • A limitless universe and project scope
• • "Schedules are illusions created by lunches."
  • "Don't panic: the budget will only expand if you define it."
  • Journey to the dark side: project risk management

• Galactic dialects and other project communication pitfalls

• The Project Hitchhiker’s Guide to AI (mandatory section)

• The Grand Unified Theory: Project Team Management

• Project close-out: thanks for all the fish and good luck with future projects!

• Self-study (i.e. extra reading or telepathic transmission)

  • Rules for the project hitchhiker
  • Tools for the project hitchhiker

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