Juggling Multiple Projects* - 14 PDUs

* At the University of Toronto, this course is called Taking Charge of Multiple Projects

“ Your class was amazing! I wish everyone at my organization could have taken it. I have taken a lot of your teachings and turned them into team building exercises at my office, which is helping us all understand a few more points of importance for properly managing projects.
I especially love how you use analogies in your lessons, they are very useful and I conduct a lot of my business and marketing consulting that way!”
– Candice Faul, Chief Operating Officer, zfactor Inc.

Course Description: Juggling Multiple Projects

This advanced level 2-day course provides insights, strategies, and tools for managing multiple projects. You will learn how to schedule multiple projects so that minor delays in one project do not cause a domino effect requiring rescheduling of all projects. This course also provides techniques for increasing your personal and corporate capacity for managing multiple projects. Finally, Juggling Multiple Projects helps you understand how to advance from a project management methodology suited to one or two projects to a methodology capable of handling multiple projects.

Who should attend

• Project Managers
• Resource Managers
• Project schedulers
• Anyone involved in decisions to implement an ’enterprise project management (EPM)’ software tool

Materials

• Course materials containing copies of presentation slides
• A reference CD with course related reference materials
• Certificate of completion (framed for in-house clients)

Learning objectives

Participants of this course will be able to…

• Schedule shared resources  so that delays in one project do not cause a domino effect on the others
• Increase capacity for managing multiple projects — by reducing the overhead required in managing each one
• Identify key resources and avoid turning them into a bottleneck, while actually increasing their capacity
• Communicate with confidence the approach necessary to move forward and apply the methodologies learned
• Handle problems that often interfere with our ability to manage multiple projects

Prerequisites

This is not a beginner course. In addition to the following prerequisites, prior to taking this course participants should have hands-on project management experience.

• 3-day Project Management Essentials (or its equivalent)
• Exposure to and use of a project management software tool such as Microsoft Project is an asset but not required.

 

Click here for the full PDF course description and outline.

For information on how to arrange for an in-house delivery of this course, or for information on the location and dates for public deliveries of this course, contact
info@wcpconsulting.com or call 905-660-7184.

* At the University of Toronto, this course is called Taking Charge of Multiple Projects. Participants of the Juggling Multiple Projects  course will earn credit towards a University of Waterloo Certificate in Project Management.

** Until 2005, the Juggling Multiple Projects course was offered publicly through Schulich School of Business. The course of the same name now offered by Schulich — although having a similar outline — is not the WCP course.

The Juggling Multiple Projects course may be taken as a stand-alone workshop or applied to one of the following University level project management certificates:

• University of Toronto Certificate in Applied Project Management
• University of Waterloo Project Management Certificate
• University of Waterloo Advanced Project Management Certificate

Participants of this workshop may therefore also be interested in the other courses that make up these certificate:

• Project Management Essentials
• PM Essentials Part 2: Monitoring and Control
• PMP Exam Prep - The Velociteach System
• Hands-on Microsoft Project
• Business Analysis in for the PM
• People Skills: The Secret Behind Project Success
• Managing Stakeholder Expectations

For more information, email PMcertificates@wcpconsulting.com
 

What our clients say about
Juggling Multiple Projects...

“I enjoyed the anecdotal examples/stories. These often helped to reinforce the ideas. The practical exercises were also very useful in committing these practices to memory.”
 – Andrew Frost, ESRI Canada

“Appreciated the visual examples used (makes it easier to understand and visualize!). One of the better courses I have taken on PM.”
– Lisa Sharp, Alberta Ministry of
    Agriculture and Food

“Course provided me with effective and timely new tools to deal with very real Project Management situations. Classes were well-presented and delivered on the promises made in the course description.”
- Participant public course

“Focused and to the point. Nicely done!”
–George Bailak, L3 Communications

“A great follow-up to the fundamentals! This has hit the spot for me, and I know I will be referring to my ‘lessons’ frequently. Thanks!”
- Participant, public course