Project Integration Management – How to Put it All Together

Project Integration Management: the Knowledge Area that everyone talks about but no one is quite clear on what it involves and what it takes to achieve true integration – beyond following the processes and tasks that are in the PMBOK^®. This one-of-a-kind session will help participants gain a glimpse at the often unexplained area of project integration management and at the art of “putting it all together”. The course will outline the topics of ensuring a systematic approach to decision making in constantly changing conditions that are less than ideal.

This 1-day course will propose a new and tangible view of how to perform project integration. It will address techniques to organize and streamline the process of incorporating the multitude of areas that play a role in making informed decisions in challenging and constantly evolving project environments. Management of dependencies

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

By the end of this power session participants will be able to identify approaches and techniques to achieve the following project integration-related benefits:

• Focus on the main areas required for effective integration of the project’s components
• Address prevailing trends and challenges related to decision making, leading teams and delivering value to the organization and the customer
• Articulate and define project success in the context of business objectives to make decisions that are informed, timely and relevant
• Apply methods to reduce false alarms in the project and by that increase value creation and team’s focus
• Utilize techniques to enhance the project manager’s credibility and ability to govern and to lead the project team
• Perform a series of activities that serve as the foundation of project success:
  
  • Managing assumption
  • Performing cross-project resource coordination
  • Considering project and business risks
  • Understanding stakeholders’ needs and identifying value drivers
  • Realizing the downstream impact of scheduling decisions
  • Articulating business objectives and project success criteria
  • Measuring the cost of quality
  • Tracking project indicators and project “health” measures
  • Effectively managing issues and changes
  • Efficiencies, time management and prioritization

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

This course is designed for project managers, project sponsors and team members who are involved in projects.

PREREQUISITE

There is no prerequisite for this course. It functions as a stand-alone course.

MATERIALS

Participants will receive a course binder and a copy of the book Managing Stakeholder Expectations for Project Success, by Ori Schibi (J. Ross, 2013)

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

PMP, CAPM, PMI, PMBOK are registered marks of the Project Management Institute, Inc.