An in-depth overview into each module:
Introduction to the course, scenario, learning pathway and course navigation
Developing a Business Case for project funding and approval, including:
- The art of getting enthusiastic support for your business case
- Describing the benefits of the project and how they will be achieved
- Getting buy-in and alignment from all stakeholders
- Getting active senior management support
- Providing realistic budgets, return-on-investment and risk reduction info
- Identifying all options and provide recommendations
- Setting out the roadmap for your proposed way forward
Once your project is approved - Planning and resourcing your project, assembling your project team, thinking ahead about beneficial change. This module covers:
- Creating a solid foundation for your project – avoiding pitfalls and planning for success
- Understanding what you need to consider, and how best to prepare
- Examining what essential roles are required and who is best to perform them
- How to get the best out of your project team
- Understanding the risks to your plan and the appropriate mitigations
- Creating your vital project management tools, including Project Plan, PID, Risk Register, Resourcing Plan, Change Management and Benefits Plans
Gathering your project requirements to suppliers, and reviewing business processes including:
- The key skills of requirements gathering:
- What to include and what not to include
- Your organisation’s priorities
- Must haves versus nice-to-haves
- Avoid misunderstandings and extra costs
- When (and how) to review business processes
- How best to engage your stakeholders for buy-in and ongoing support of the project
Choosing your ideal technology supplier - Creating a Request-for-proposal (RfP) and running a successful and supplier selection process, including:
- Understanding why so many supplier selections create problems for the project
- Understanding what makes a good RfP
- Creating an RfP that will avoid disputes and misunderstandings with your potential suppliers
- Evaluating potential suppliers to pick the ideal supplier
- Ensuring buy-in and ongoing support from your stakeholders
- Understanding what can go wrong, and how best to prepare
Learn how to deliver successful business change alongside your project, including:
- What change management means in practical terms
- The benefits of change management and why it matters
- How to plan for and deliver change management as part of your project
- Overcoming resistance and ensuring support for your project
- How to make the change a permanent part of your business
You’ve chosen your supplier and created your project team – time to implement the technology and business change across the organisation. Learn how to:
- Establish a solid working framework with your supplier, project team and management team
- Plan for project success - understand where projects fail, and how to make sure yours doesn’t
- Communicate effectively to get the best from your supplier and business stakeholders
- Anticipate and avoid risks and project issues
- Keep a focus on delivering benefits at every stage
Managing high-risk areas - Data, integration, Reporting and User Acceptance Testing, including:
- The best approach to these three high-risk areas
- Allowing the right time and resources
- What User Acceptance really means, and how to achieve it
- Focusing on key challenges – avoiding surprises
Preparing for go-live and the “new business-as-usual”, including:
- Go-live is difficult! How to avoid the risk of failure
- Preparing for organisation-wide change while avoiding complaints
- Engaging with your stakeholders to ensure buy-in
- What happens when the project team moves on? Planning for ongoing support, maintenance and improvement
Introduction to Benefits Management as part of your project, including:
- Learn how to run your project to get the most benefit from it
- Benefits are about people and change – how to get buy-in to achieve benefits
- Keeping an eye on the Business Case
- Learn how to define and measure the benefits you expect from your project
An in-depth overview into each module:
Introduction to the course, scenario, learning pathway and course navigation
Developing a Business Case for project funding and approval, including:
- The art of getting enthusiastic support for your business case
- Describing the benefits of the project and how they will be achieved
- Getting buy-in and alignment from all stakeholders
- Getting active senior management support
- Providing realistic budgets, return-on-investment and risk reduction info
- Identifying all options and provide recommendations
- Setting out the roadmap for your proposed way forward
Once your project is approved - Planning and resourcing your project, assembling your project team, thinking ahead about beneficial change. This module covers:
- Creating a solid foundation for your project – avoiding pitfalls and planning for success
- Understanding what you need to consider, and how best to prepare
- Examining what essential roles are required and who is best to perform them
- How to get the best out of your project team
- Understanding the risks to your plan and the appropriate mitigations
- Creating your vital project management tools, including Project Plan, PID, Risk Register, Resourcing Plan, Change Management and Benefits Plans
Gathering your project requirements to suppliers, and reviewing business processes including:
- The key skills of requirements gathering:
- What to include and what not to include
- Your organisation’s priorities
- Must haves versus nice-to-haves
- Avoid misunderstandings and extra costs
- When (and how) to review business processes
- How best to engage your stakeholders for buy-in and ongoing support of the project
Choosing your ideal technology supplier - Creating a Request-for-proposal (RfP) and running a successful and supplier selection process, including:
- Understanding why so many supplier selections create problems for the project
- Understanding what makes a good RfP
- Creating an RfP that will avoid disputes and misunderstandings with your potential suppliers
- Evaluating potential suppliers to pick the ideal supplier
- Ensuring buy-in and ongoing support from your stakeholders
- Understanding what can go wrong, and how best to prepare
Learn how to deliver successful business change alongside your project, including:
- What change management means in practical terms
- The benefits of change management and why it matters
- How to plan for and deliver change management as part of your project
- Overcoming resistance and ensuring support for your project
- How to make the change a permanent part of your business
You’ve chosen your supplier and created your project team – time to implement the technology and business change across the organisation. Learn how to:
- Establish a solid working framework with your supplier, project team and management team
- Plan for project success - understand where projects fail, and how to make sure yours doesn’t
- Communicate effectively to get the best from your supplier and business stakeholders
- Anticipate and avoid risks and project issues
- Keep a focus on delivering benefits at every stage
Managing high-risk areas - Data, integration, Reporting and User Acceptance Testing, including:
- The best approach to these three high-risk areas
- Allowing the right time and resources
- What User Acceptance really means, and how to achieve it
- Focusing on key challenges – avoiding surprises
Preparing for go-live and the “new business-as-usual”, including:
- Go-live is difficult! How to avoid the risk of failure
- Preparing for organisation-wide change while avoiding complaints
- Engaging with your stakeholders to ensure buy-in
- What happens when the project team moves on? Planning for ongoing support, maintenance and improvement
Introduction to Benefits Management as part of your project, including:
- Learn how to run your project to get the most benefit from it
- Benefits are about people and change – how to get buy-in to achieve benefits
- Keeping an eye on the Business Case
- Learn how to define and measure the benefits you expect from your project