High performance project planning and management

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High-performance project teams are rare in today’s workplace. One estimate is 2% of all workgroups. Another global study indicates that only 21% of employees are fully engaged in their work. Still other studies show that even middle managers are often not truly committed to their firm’s strategy.

This masterclass will show you the root causes of these issues, as well as why in some organisations and in some sectors, high-performance project teams are actually very common. Some firms know how to create them so this masterclass will show you what these firms know that most managers and firms don't.

You will learn what it takes to create workplaces that are buzzing with energy and excitement and enthusiasm. You will learn how you can do this in your context, in your organisation.

The masterclass is inter-active and operational. This is not some “pie in the sky” promise that sounds good in words but vanishes when you try to put it into practice. It is an approach that has produced quantified results in many firms and in many countries. The approach is concrete and specific and can be implemented over and over again. It involves a discipline that can guide us to help make any human group come alive.

What you will do DURING this masterclass

You will learn how to:

• Inspire your organisation to adopt a culture of high-performance
• Pursue relentless improvement in the way the work is done
• Come to closure on priorities on a continuing basis
• Continuously focus effort on the 20% of items that generate 80% of the benefits
• Generate teams that self-organise and pursue continuous improvement
• Coach the project team how to become hyper-productive
• Engage in real conversations with customers and clients
• Deploy user stories to understand client needs in depth
• Empower teams to take responsibility for work standardization
• Focus project teams on real work, as opposed to meta-work or re-work
• Avoid interrupting the project team, while still being able to shift direction to meet new priorities.
• Delight clients by presenting finished work at the end of each iteration

What you will be able to do AFTER this masterclass

You will know how to

• Create the conditions necessary for high-performance project planning and management
• Inspire others to adopt a high-performance culture
• Delight clients with project work that is on time, within budget and of the highest quality
• Create a sense of challenge around the project’s goals and inspire the team to implement
• Put in place the management arrangements necessary for high-performance project teams
• Convene a team that is capable of high-performance
• Use the power of cognitive diversity to generate high-performance project teams
• Coach a team, or use shock therapy, to generate high-performance project teams
• Sustain the fire of high-performance within a project team
• Teach the project team how to plan accurately how long tasks will take
• Calculate the team’s velocity and focus factor of the team
• Use velocity and focus factor as spurs to relentless improvement
• Deploy user stories to understand client needs in depth