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.

A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK^® Guide) areas covered:
Project Communication Management.

Who should attend?

Managing multiple projects is ideal for those who are assigned to multiple projects at the same time or those who are working on projects within programs (but not as the program manager). The skills taught best serve those who are trying to establish project priorities, particularly in an environment where those priorities are not organizationally mandated.

How will I benefit?
Develop and enhance the contributions you make to your organization by being able to:

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

What will my seminar experience cover?

You’ll examine the nature of the multi-project environment and how to establish priorities in an environment where they have not previously been established. 

You’ll build a prioritization matrix as a team, and define how to deploy it as a sales tool with your team and with management.

You’ll examine competing and complementary objectives for projects and find ways to leverage the efforts from one project into the next. 

You will discover strategies that mitigate risk across multiple projects and that work to serve multi-project needs

You will construct templates and protocols to facilitate long-term multiple project management.

What instructional materials will be used?

Lecture, Videotapes, Facilitated Group Discussion, Individual Exercises, Games, Group Exercises.