Managing multiple projects is as much an art as it is a science. Handling multiple projects means more than just dealing with multiple schedules; it involves multiple risks, stakeholders and budgets. To expertly manage multiple projects, you need to recognize priorities and delegate wisely not an easy feat in today’s complex environment. To do that successfully, you need an extensive understanding of how risk, human resources, schedules and costs must be integrated. In this course, you’ll learn techniques for establishing priorities, identifying risks generated by the multi-project environment, sharing resources and managing your energies as a manager effectively.

This course will cover:
• Establishing priorities
• Identifying risks generated by the multi-project environment
• Sharing resources
• Designing templates to help manage your energies effectively as a multi-project manager
• A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK^® Guide) knowledge areas: human resources, scope, cost, integration, risk, time and communications

This course will help you:
• Recognize and establish project priorities
• Assess schedule and resource conflicts to determine approaches
• Identify and apply optimization practices across projects
• Apply risk management on concurrent multiple projects
• Build organizational authority by applying consistent authorization practices

Who should attend?
Project and program managers seeking to more effectively manage multiple projects. Those seeking key tools within the conventional project management tool kit to optimize their ability to manage more than one effort at a time. Those working toward identifying and creating their own tools, templates and protocols to serve the projects, the project office and the organization. Anyone wrestling with the age-old quandary of “which project comes first?”