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Workshop: Program Management

Workshop Objective: After this workshop, you will be able to develop appropriate program plans for any high technology project. You will learn how to reviewing and manage program risks. You will be able to bring in the appropriate intra-company functions to unite your organization in its product development

Workshop Overview: This workshop will present program management methodology to be used for product development. We will also discuss the concepts of Concurrent Engineering, and how to make the whole product come to market faster. We discuss the issues surrounding program management and the matrix nature of the organization. We will discuss appropriate levels of planning, and ensuring that you know what the company wants. We will discuss and use examples for managing a program throughout its duration and team building and meetings. We will discuss the particular issues at each phase of the program: initial, execution, end game. We will work with examples to make you effective.

Target Audience: Software or Hardware Engineering Managers of all levels, Project leaders for software or software/hardware projects, Individual Contributors.

Prerequisites: Attendees should have experienced at least one project of at least 24 person-months of duration in a leadership role, either technical or managerial.

Workshop Duration: 2 days

Workshop Outline

1. Introduction
   1. Workshop purpose and expectations
   2. Program management definition: scope, teams, types of programs
2. Program Scheduling
   1. Lifecycle choices and practices that make a difference
   2. Concurrent Engineering
   3. When time to market is critical
3. Project Management: Yourself
   1. Manage your time
   2. Problem Solving
   3. Communications
   4. Facilitation
   5. Examples and Debrief
4. Program Teams: Others
   1. Technical Leadership
   2. Meetings and other communications
   3. Building a team of project managers
   4. Examples and debriefs
5. Program Management Methodology
   1. Meetings and making them useful
   2. Managing interdependencies
   3. Managing risks in a program
   4. Concurrent Engineering methodology
   5. Creating a visible dashboard to see status
6. Program Management during the different phases of a project life cycle
   1. Planning
   2. Execution
   3. End game
   4. Examples of successes and failures, and discussion of why
7. Summary and wrap-up

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