As a participant, you will also learn how to build the personnel and incentive structure necessary to identify
the right project for your strategy and implement it. Managing and Steering Complex Projects programme
can help you gain the expertise to take on more complex and novel projects, and successfully connect the
dots between your strategic goals and your project goals. You’ll learn project management processes as
well as how to build organisational capability to ensure that your projects are not only completed but that
your outcomes are also predictable.

At the end of this CDGA programme you will learn:

• To manage and  steer complexity and change
• Incorporate the science of complexity into project management strategies
• Manage complex projects involving strategic risks
• Apply a complexity assessment model and adaptive process
• Minimise uncertainty by leveraging best practises from Critical Chain, Agile, and Lean approaches
• Upgrade from traditional PPM approaches
• Identify the new generation of projects and programme types 
• Develop your own personal project management style 
• Grasp the advantage of the latest cutting edge research 
• A valuable overview of the current state and future trends in project/programme management.

• C-suite and senior-level executives seeking an overview of project management as well as insights on choosing the most appropriate project approach based on their strategic objective.
• Highly experienced PMP-certified project managers looking to go deeper than traditional PMP courses and develop their leadership skills in project management.
• Consultants who need the skill to articulate the case for projects and influence multiple stakeholders.
• The programme’s lessons are applicable across most major industries, including banking and finance, consulting, government, infrastructure,
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Part 1

Introduction to Steering Complex Projects

• The project initialisation
• The project planning
• Design of project plans, cost estimates and budgets
• Planning of project quality, personnel deployment and communication channels

Part 2

Projects as Strategic Change

• Understand the strategic goals of the organisation and articulate what the project outcomes will contribute to the strategy
• Understand the political process of creating project goals, including negotiating and seeking win-win coalitions
• Translate high level strategic goals into project goals

Part 3

Execution Projects

• Identify the key characteristics of execution projects
• Understand the managerial relevance of the critical path and limitations
• Identify uncertainties and take mitigative or responsive actions

Part 4

Novel Projects

• Identify the key characteristics of novel projects and the technical steps of managing them
• Articulate steps to follow when encountering unforeseeable uncertainty
• Understand pivoting/iterating and parallelism, and how to incorporate them into project planning and monitoring

Part 5

Change Projects

• Identify the four methods for managing a change project
• Generate guidelines for managing the social dimensions of change
• Author a template for stakeholder management

Part 6

Managing People and Teams

• Identify and apply ingredients of goal clarity and three criteria for them
• Articulate competency-driven values for a project
• Analyse how to deal with rule-breakers and high-performers and establish related guidelines

Part 7

Governance

• Understand the role governance plays in maintaining strategic alignment in projects
• Identify the five elements of well-designed governance structures
• Build a framework for managing the governance structure with accountability measures

Part 8

Partners

• Understand what contracts can and cannot do, and identify the four different types of contracts for an appropriate fit
• Understand the role that co-location can play in project management
• Understand how renegotiation must be built into the contract from the beginning

Part 9

Project Communications 

• Channels & Models
• Communications Management Plan
• Manage Communications
• Monitor Communications
• Solutions 

Part 10

Learning and Integration

• Identify the tools for each project type, and how to deploy them
• Make informed choices from the portfolio of tools to ensure projects encourage learning within the organisation

Apply established methods of knowledge exchange and learning tools in a way that is appropriate to the challenges of a project Monitoring and control of project risks, contract management

CDGA attendance certificate will be issued to all attendees completing the total of course duration