Corporate Training By Zack Academy - Lean Visual Project Execution Management Workshop

Why Should You Attend This Lean Visual Project Execution Management Workshop?

The early symptoms of inefficient project execution processes are instantly recognizable. They include stop-start work practices, proliferating meetings, re-shuffling priorities, dealing with one crisis after another, and chronic resource shortages. If these problems are not addressed at the root cause, conditions will deteriorate until the pleasure of worthwhile effort is replaced by frustration at the inability to bring tasks to completion, or at having to deliver compromised or low-quality work.

Most Project Managers today know that managing the project execution of their project is just as important as the fundamentals of good planning. But few have the toolkit and robust project management execution methodology they need to truly get the best out of their team and reliably bring projects in on time. Our two-day instructor led Lean Visual Project Management Execution Workshop will give you the toolkit you need to execute projects faster, and more reliably than ever before.

Complete Projects in 30% Less Time:

The most successful projects run just like a relay race, with the goal to complete each project with full scope and quality as fast as possible. In real life, however, this is rarely the case even as the pressure to deliver more projects faster has never been greater. While every project environment has its unique issues, there are many common challenges, such as: 

• Project durations are too long
• Due dates are frequently missed or the scope is reduced to meet the due date
• Difficulty knowing the true status of a project (i.e. finding out that the 90% of the work is left with 10% of the time remaining)
• Budgets are overrun
• Needed resources are frequently not available or stretched thin

These are problems that are not solved very effectively with more resources, new leadership or by simply accepting that this is the norm. Rather, the solution lies in improving your project delivery system by focusing attention on the core problems for poor project delivery rather than the symptoms.

The Lean Visual Project Execution Workshop will outfit you with the understanding and tools to deliver projects more effectively execute better and alleviate the underlying causes of poor project delivery performance. We guarantee the visual execution system you'll learn in this workshop will enable you to execute projects at least 30% faster.

Who Should Take This Course?

This course is primarily intended for Project Managers with sound PMI fundamentals who want to learn an effective visual management method to align their team, cut unproductive meeting time by 80%, reduce delays, eliminate communication snafus, and cut their project delivery times by 30% or more. Many PMs who come from a technical background have been left to fend for themselves when it comes to learning to effectively deliver projects and this course will enhance the careers of those who want to consistently deliver on-time, every time. This course solves that problem by presenting an effective, visual project management execution methodology in a logical, easy to follow way that is guaranteed to enable you to reduce project lead times, and improve on-time project delivery performance.

Benefits:  At the end of this course, you will have transformed your project management skills by learning:

• How to inspire your team to achieve project goals
• The nine keys to creating high-performing teams
• How to create your own leadership identity
• How to enable and empower your team to do their best work
• Keys for navigating through project challenges
• How to unlock your team’s potential

Syllabus

Course Outline:

Synchronization of work and resources

a. Making the work visible

b. Managing the flow

c. Clear and simple control of priorities

d. Controlling the amount of work in the system

e. Identifying & eliminating bottlenecks to increase the rate

f. Functional synchronization

g. Effective 10 minute stand-up meetings to maintain team alignment

Aligning the team

a. Establish the common goals

b. Create the right behaviors

c. Measurements to drive the right behaviors

d. Leadership reinforcement

e. Communication

Managing deadlines – commitments and delivery of internal and external task completion dates dictated by the project

a. Improving the visibility to the project as a whole

b. Engaging the team to focus on the future and not defending the past

c. Using forward looking indicators for proactive project management

d. Person-to-person accountability

e. Focusing the team on the right things

f. Accelerating flow

g. Establishing collaborative execution process

Reconciliation of resource capacity with work load

a. Improving teamwork & collaboration during execution

b. Dealing with inevitable resource contention in execution

c. Preventing resource bottlenecks

d. Early identification & problem resolution

f. Control WIP

g. Clean Start

Managing risk – understanding the level of uncertainty in the project plan to effectively manage execution

a. Preventing the behaviors like Parkinson’s Law which cause time losses

b. Rapid issue resolution process

c. Responding to unanticipated issues. (Early detection & response)