Managing Multiple Projects & Priorities: Practical Workshop

Course Introduction

This course focuses on one question: how do teams in capital projects and programme portfolios apply Managing Multiple Projects & Priorities consistently and safely under real constraints? Five days of discussion, exercises and case work provide practical answers you can adapt to your own organisation.

Training Objectives

• 01Build a shared vocabulary and framework for Managing Multiple Projects & Priorities that your whole team can use
• 02Apply proven methods for Managing Multiple Projects & Priorities to realistic scenarios drawn from capital projects and programme portfolios
• 03Anticipate the failure points and compliance issues that most often affect Managing Multiple Projects & Priorities
• 04Communicate Managing Multiple Projects & Priorities decisions clearly to colleagues, clients and management
• 05Prepare a personal action plan to apply Managing Multiple Projects & Priorities in your own organisation

What You Will Take Away

• Templates for planning, tracking and reporting
• A stakeholder and communication map
• Decision frameworks and discussion guides for your team

Who Should Attend

• Project Managers & Coordinators
• Team Leaders on Project Teams
• PMO Staff
• Engineers Moving into Project Roles

Prerequisites: Open to all levels; participants are encouraged to bring a real work challenge.

Training Methodology

This is a hands-on workshop: short briefings followed by extended exercises, simulations and group activities, with most time spent applying rather than listening. Case material and examples are drawn from capital projects and programme portfolios.

Day-by-Day Programme (5 Days)

• Day 1
  Where Managing Multiple Projects & Priorities fits

  How Managing Multiple Projects & Priorities connects to wider operations in capital projects and programme portfolios, plus the essential vocabulary.

• Day 2
  Working with the standards

  Interpreting and applying the codes and good-practice guidance that govern Managing Multiple Projects & Priorities.

• Day 3
  Tools and techniques lab

  Guided practice with the tools, checklists and templates used for Managing Multiple Projects & Priorities.

• Day 4
  Risk, compliance and case review

  Analysis of incidents and cases to see where Managing Multiple Projects & Priorities succeeds or breaks down.

• Day 5
  Consolidate and plan

  Capstone discussion, action planning and a closing assessment.

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