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Complex Project Management Training

Course 287

  • Duration: 3 days
  • Sandbox: Yes
  • Language: English
  • 17 PMI PDUs
  • Level: Advanced

Learn Complex Project Management in this intensive real-world, three-day project scenario training course. Learn how to assess, communicate and manage complex projects. Gain a deep understanding of essential influencers of project success or failure and a tool set to address the specific issues for your complex project.

Complex Project Management Training Delivery Methods

  • In-Person

  • Online

  • Upskill your whole team by bringing Private Team Training to your facility.

Complex Project Management Training Course Information

In this course, you will:

  • Incorporate the science of complexity into project management strategies.
  • Manage complex projects involving strategic risks.
  • Apply a complexity assessment model and adaptive process.
  • Minimize uncertainty by leveraging best practices from Critical Chain, Agile, and Lean approaches.
  • Test your knowledge in the included end-of-course exam.

Prerequisites

We recommend attendees have a solid understanding of conventional project management at the level of the following courses:

Complex Project Management Course Outline

  • Stretching the limits of conventional project management
  • Rethinking the future of project management

Introducing complexity science and chaos theory

  • Comparing and contrasting simple and complex systems
  • Applying various complexity modeling techniques

Adopting the four-dimensional project complexity diagnostic tool

  • Analyzing project boundary conditions to understand the complexity of your project
  • Determining the edge of chaos
  • Assessing the significance of complex project risks
  • Communicating project complexity factors to others

Beginning with adaptive principles

  • Building with Agile software development
  • Borrowing from the combat operations loop and the scientific method

The four-step adaptive project management process

  • Implementing rolling wave planning and progressive elaboration
  • Managing adaptive requirements, change and quality
  • Scheduling, budgeting and metrics on complex projects

Aligning with corporate strategy and value engineering

  • Executing portfolio management strategies
  • Making the business case and delivering value
  • Utilizing business capability and purpose alignment models

Developing small, strategic batches of work

  • Applying Van Creveld's Iron Rule and Occam's Razor
  • Delivering minimal marketable features

Maintaining control through speed and agility

  • Dealing with daily disruptions
  • Employing fast-tracking and crashing
  • Compressing the critical path

Incorporating Critical Chain and Lean techniques

  • Evaluating Critical Chain project management
  • Employing the theory of constraints and five focusing steps to eliminate waste and optimize flow

Leading adaptive teams

  • Developing your core competencies
  • Growing your sphere of influence and managing politics

Building CRACK teams

  • Facilitating emergent organization and self-management
  • Agreeing on vision, goals, objectives and values
  • Empowering and motivating the team
  • Implementing effective feedback loops

Identifying and managing risks with scenario modeling

  • Quantifying and mitigating risk threats
  • Exploiting risk opportunities for disruptive innovation

Implementing probabilistic estimating tools and techniques

  • Managing precision and accuracy
  • Correcting estimating bias and reducing variability
  • Revisiting the cone of uncertainty and order of magnitude estimating
  • Leveraging PERT, Monte Carlo and Agile techniques
  • Putting it all together
  • Analyzing a real-world case study
  • Assessing your own real-world projects
  • Identifying specific actions you will take
  • Gaining support and managing risks
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  • 3-day instructor-led training course

  • After-course instructor coaching benefit

  • Learning Tree end-of-course exam included

#287
  • Aug 6 - 8 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM EDT
    Herndon, VA or Virtual
  • Sep 17 - 19 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM EDT
    Ottawa or Virtual
  • Nov 5 - 7 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM EST
    Herndon, VA or Virtual
  • Dec 17 - 19 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM EST
    Ottawa or Virtual
  • Feb 11 - 13 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM EST
    Herndon, VA or Virtual
  • Mar 25 - 27 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM EDT
    Ottawa or Virtual

  • 3-day instructor-led training course

  • After-course instructor coaching benefit

  • Learning Tree end-of-course exam included

#287
  • Aug 6 - 8 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM EDT
    Herndon, VA or Virtual
  • Sep 17 - 19 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM EDT
    Ottawa or Virtual
  • Nov 5 - 7 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM EST
    Herndon, VA or Virtual
  • Dec 17 - 19 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM EST
    Ottawa or Virtual
  • Feb 11 - 13 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM EST
    Herndon, VA or Virtual
  • Mar 25 - 27 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM EDT
    Ottawa or Virtual

  • Bring this or any training to your organization

  • Full-scale program development

  • Delivered when, where, and how you want it

  • Blended learning models

  • Tailored content

  • Expert team coaching

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Complex Project Management FAQs

Competitive, dynamic environment, the challenging characteristics of programs and projects may be viewed as complexity.

Managing complex projects is much more than applying a set of standard practices. This course will help you recognize the level of complexity early, establish the proper initial conditions, and communicate the drivers of success and failure to management, stakeholders and the project team.

Certification candidates and existing credential holders are responsible for reporting all Continuing Certification Requirements Program (CCR) activities to PMI. To report the completion of a Learning Tree course, you can use the Online PDU Resources System.

  1. Go to the PMI Continuing Certification Requirements System https://ccrs.pmi.org/
  2. Log in with your username and password
  3. Locate the claim code associated with your course in the table in this document
  4. Click on “Report PDU for this activity”
  5. Fill in the date started and date completed
  6. Click on the box agreeing this claim is accurate and then submit

PDU Information for This Course:

  • Total PDUs: 17
  • Technical PDUs: 17
  • Leadership PDUs: 0
  • Strategic & Business PDUs: 0
  • PMI Claim Code: 1154TT530V

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