Project Management Success Stories and Research Lessons

Background

This course is for anyone who is interested to learn more about projects. It presents extensive research and experience lessons collected during 20 years on over 1000 projects. Since traditional well-established project management techniques are insufficient to deal with today’s complexities and challenges in projects, the course is aimed at understanding the secrets of the most successful and great projects of all times. But it will also present lessons from famous failures and analyze their reasons.

Course Objectives – What Will You Learn?

• Understand the fundamental principles of the most successful projects and learn the secrets of their success
• Collect lessons from famous failures and understand the reasons for failure
• Use the lessons to identify the pitfalls and gaps in traditional risk management and their impact on project success
• Develop a mindset and a set of analytical tools to identify success and failure and implement it into your project.
• Practice the lessons on your real company projects

Course Delivery Style

The course is highly interactive. It combines stories and theory to understand the lessons. The course will present the stories first and ask participants to draw their conclusions, then after a class discussion we will analyze the lessons based on theory and research findings.