| Practical Project Case Studies |
The learnings would be from Practical Project Case Studies that you can easily relate to. |
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| Hands-On Exercises |
Hands-On Exercises (using objects) and linking the learning to real-life project world. |
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Enabling you to develop a sustained habit of continuously delivering breakthrough results. |
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Based on 2 decades of experience compiled into
"Steering Project Success - Simple Innovatons in Execution" published by McGraw Hill, 2007 |
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This workshop is focussed on achieving a tangible increase in the Project Manager's ability to deliver projects successfully. This will have a direct impact on the bottom-line as well as top-line of the project through increased profitability and increased opportunity mining across projects, accounts & sectors.
This workshop goes beyond the standard Body of knowledge on Project Management, its methodologies, processes and tools and focuses mainly on getting Practical Project Management insights applied at ground level.
- Gain better project execution strategies
- Derive innovative co-creation strategies involving all Project stakeholders
- Ability to steer through grey areas/ uncertainties in Projects/Programs efficiently
- Gain insight into crafting win-win solutions in complex environments
- Mentorship ability for Project Managers, Team and customer side stakeholders.
- How to say a “positive No” and a “conditional Yes” to steer expectations
- Be able to develop the entrepreneurship mindset needed for steering a project to success.
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- Project Managers
- Consultants
- Outsourcing Professionals
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- Program Managers
- Relationship Managers
- Business Development Managers
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- Project Leaders
- Team Leaders
- Alliance Office heads
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Participants should have a minimum experience of 3 Projects in any of the above roles, to be able to perceive and understand related challenges. |
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| This training will be delivered as |
- An instructor led workshop designed to enable participants to learn through practical project management insights/wisdom
- An experiment through hands-on case studies
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| 2 Full days of intensive training from 9:30 AM – 5:30 PM |
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Practical Case Studies / Insights demonstrating the thinking differentiator
- Translating Project decisions to business success:-
- Demonstrating Integrity by being able to say a Positive NO / Conditional YES and enabling Customer to appreciate this.
- Making the best of ‘forced business decisions’.
- Leveraging absorbed costs as bargaining point for negotiating next project billing
- Maintaining Value Register delivered beyond Expectations
- Quantifying stretch effort that delighted stakeholders
- Value additions through Pro-active , Pre-emptive suggestions/proposals.
- Leveraging Value Register
- Demonstrating Partnership mindset – unasked for
- Suggesting Innovative solutions /proposals /changes
- Educating Customer on benefits of new suggestions
- Presenting viable options to customer on dealing with Change requests that are a no-go
- Balancing Customer-Investor interests for Volatility in Requirements
- Introducing novel ways to enable sign-off’s , Minimize expectations mismatch, Handle wait time, avoid resource discontinuity etc.
- Delivering Profitability while dealing with Grey areas
- Exploring ways to increase productivity
- Handling Estimation approvals
- Handling re-negotiations on ‘Discovery’.
- Proposing / identifying SLA’s
- Managing of customer side delays
- Handling possible estimate variances due to ambiguous requirements
- Aligning Customer Confidence to overall interest of the Relationship
A copy of the book - Steering Project Success by Madhavan |
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Mr. Madhavan is a certified Project Manager with over 2 decades of experience in providing Leadership for Delivery, Business Performance Management, Project Management and other areas. His experience spans Industries like Manufacturing, Automotives, Healthcare, Insurance, Education, Innovation and Delivery Assurance. He was responsible for establishing the first Project Management Centre of Excellence at Satyam. He has been the Sr. Project Manager for several multi-million $ IT Projects for Fortune 500 Customers and has led Programs / Accounts for State Farm Insurance, Caterpillar, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Volkswagen etc.
He has led Strategic Corporate Initiatives including - Fixed Bid Projects Profitability . Innovation, Idea Junction, Best Practices etc. He has provided Mentorship and Guidance to several Project Managers/Program managers across Global Accounts, as part of Delivery Assurance. He is a regular Industry Contributor ; currently as Director/Advisory Board Member of Project Management Institute , Bangalore Chapter. He has been the Founder Member of PMI Pearl City Chapter, Hyderabad. His unique snowballing workshops on ‘Steering Project Success’ and ‘Assurance based Project Management' has benefited several 1000's of Project Managers.
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Quality Solutions for Information Technology Pvt. Ltd.
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M.G. Road Bangalore - 560 001 India
Ph: +91 - 80 - 4081 8888 / 4113 4334
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for further enquiries please mail to: trainings@qsitglobal.com
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Mohan Srinivasan , TOC Guru and Founder ,
Nth Dimenzions
“It is a useful guide to all fellow project managers in the IT industry. It is a great piece of work with hard efforts put in to compile them in a unique way – the Seven mantras for success. On reading the book, I do feel that project management professionals would get another view point.”
Amar V Bhaskar, PMP, Past President PMI Bangalore Chapter IBM Global
“This book has straight forward, down-to-earth, easy to understand illustrations on balancing the delight levels of all stakeholders (team, customers, investors) amidst all the challenges and vulnerabilities in present day projects”
AS Murthy, CTO,
Mahindra Satyam
“Madhavan is a rare visionary in the field of Project Management. He has painstakingly distilled deep and telling insights through his vast professional experience managing complex programs, and has conceived the elegant concept of Assurance Management. Madhavan understands what it takes to Steer a Project to Success. Is also a great coach and trainer and can help Project and Program Managers think differently about their work.”
Suresh Kalpathy Vaidyanathan, Vice President - Global Business Development at Defiance Tech
Prabhu Stanislaus,
Head - Application Managed Services,
Cognizant
Neal Jacob,
Program Director,
Mahindra Satyam
Ranganatha Rao,
Services Delivery Manager, IBM
Siva Nuti, SVP,
GSS America Infotecch Ltd.
Krishnamurthy Voora,
Head - Application Management,
CapGemini |
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