PROJECTLAB
World of the Sr. Project Leader TM
accelerated education powered by a Management Worlds simulation

This intensive 5-day accelerated learning experience extends beyond the boundaries of a single project to the complex and ambiguous world of managing multiple projects. Participants manage concurrent projects within the framework of the organization's strategy and goals. They compete for project priority, visibility, and business resources, while they share and negotiate for the benefit of the entire organization. The workshop provides a rich learning laboratory to practice and improve enterprise multi-project thinking. Participants must balance the organizational goals of business performance and customer satisfaction while they build organizational capability and the human capital of the enterprise.

Learning Outcomes
This PROJECTLAB is designed for project executives, program managers, senior project managers, and functional managers. Participants need a good understanding of project management. Pre-requisite: Managing Complex Projects or equivalent.
Participants will:

• Develop multi-project thinking and a strategic view of projects
• Manage a portfolio of project priorities
• Improve enterprise project coordination and communications
• Develop enterprise and project capacity plans
• Allocate and manage organizational and project staff
• Manage enterprise risks and opportunities
• Balance the functional and project roles and responsibilities
• Develop integrated project plans
• Improve leadership and influence behaviors

PROJECTLAB
This PROJECTLAB features a powerful multi-project simulation that participants use to plan and then implement in a dynamic environment. The simulation provides the realistic context setting for making tough decisions about project priorities, staffing, capacity planning, customers, quality, schedule, and cost issues. They encounter typical project and organizational problems such as changing priorities, contending demands, management constraints, limited resources, shortages of qualified project leaders, and the management of new project arrivals. As they make decisions in the simulated environment, they practice and improve interpersonal and team behaviors, and gain insights into multi-project thinking. Participants learn to think systematically about their project and functional roles, their dependencies, organizational and project complexities, and their responsibilities to achieve business objectives.

During the closeout of a PROJECTLAB , participants reflect upon their actions and behaviors during their exploration of best practices. They will develop personalized best theories, skills and behaviors to apply back in their workplaces. With a critical mass of like thinking colleagues, they will guide their organization towards project excellence. Many participants will also exclaim:

"This is the best learning experience I've ever attended ...
... well worth my time"

36 PDUs