• Share detailed insights into how projects are managed in some of the world's leading companies.
• Develop a holistic approach to project management, taking into account organizational requirements, people, culture and team issues, and business issues.
• Obtain a thorough understanding of advanced project management concepts and their application in complex and international projects.
• Be immersed in real issues and their successful resolutions.
• Learn how to apply bench marking techniques and how to develop positive plans for improvement.

• Project teams as building blocks of the company.
• Latest trends in "management by projects" and cross-organizational teams.
• Effects of differences in national, organizational, and personal cultures and values.
• Organizational ingredients for effective project management.

  Participation: The Assessment Inventory of Project Management
  Participants will determine how well they conduct project management.

Organizational Support of Project Teams

• Designing the organization for project management.
• New approaches and trends from various industries.
• The influence of different cultures, values, and management styles on organizational effectiveness.
• Using executive management committees, groups, and teams for organizational support.

  Workshop: Organizational Support
  Participants share their organizations' greatest assets and biggest challenges in providing organizational support to cross-functional projects teams and propose solutions to these challenges.
  
  Participation: An Assessment of Your Organizational Support
  Participants will assess the organizational support to project teams provided by their companies and benchmark their results against research data being gathered by BMC from a wide range of international companies.

Project Planning Systems and Behaviors (the state-of-the-art)

• Necessary ingredients of a project execution plan.
• The five basic project planning elements.
• Project definition and approval cycles.
  Goal: building agreement
• Structuring and organizing multiple projects and task teams.
  Goal: building accountability.
• Scheduling multiple projects, tasks, and resourcing.
  Goal: building communications.
• Establishing performance baselines, budgets, and contingencies.
  Goal: building control.

  Workshop: Structuring and Organizing
  Participants share their greatest challenges in conducting appropriate planning and control of projects and programs in their companies and suggest solutions to these problems.

Project Control Behaviors

• The most basic requirements for a company and its projects to be "in control."
• Project control in a multiproject environment.
• Performance measurement and reporting methods.
• Designing reporting systems.

Project Risk Management

• What do we mean by "risk"?
• Risk management in an operational environment.
• How to perform a risk assessment.