The Leading and Managing Strategic Projects programme offers a guided tour through the six stages of the project life cycle; and secondly, it delves into the supporting elements that support the organisational or management structure.
The six stages of the strategic project management life cycle are:
1. Selection:we will look at project portfolio management, project prioritisation and aggregate capacity planning.
2. Organisation: we will look at the selection of the team, especially the manager, as this is a crucial factor, as well as the implementation of an appropriate organisational structure.
3. Definition:we will determine how to correctly define the scope of the project (stakeholders, evaluation criteria, risk management, etc.), which is key to avoid later problems.
4. Planning:we will review traditional methods for well-defined projects, as well as other more innovative methods for managing projects with little definition and a high level of uncertainty.
5. Monitoring and control: we will present techniques for monitoring, both in terms of follow-up and control of the changes that may occur. We will also discuss the main causes of project delays and how to prevent them.
6. Completion:we will deal with closure actions and satisfaction assessment. We will also study the most frequent causes of failure, in order to recognise them and avoid their effects on future projects.
Support elements
We will look at organisational structures for project management, including project financing, project team personnel and conflict management, remuneration systems, and management in a multi-project environment. To do this, we will explore the fundamentals of strategic project management:
(a) We will examine the incorporation of organisational learning into project management, the role of the project management office, and recent trends in work organisation and value creation.
b) Analyse models for defining, measuring and proposing ways to improve your organisation's ability to manage projects.
c) We will study the application of process maturity models from the quality standard to projects.
