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Global Project Management: Understanding the Global Project Environment

Course Details

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Managing projects is an undertaking in itself, but when they’re on a global scale, project managers face an entirely new set of circumstances: cross-cultural issues, regulations, logistics and processes, managing at a distance, and much more. This program focuses on the project life cycle in a global context and explores cross-cultural, managerial variables from both a theoretical and a practical application standpoint.

PDC is a globally approved Registered Education Provider (R.E.P) of the Project Management Institute (PMI®).

There is no prerequisite for this course.

Instructor

Wes Balakian CEO of TSI

Wes Balakian, PMP®, CEO of True Solutions Inc, (TSI), and author of Harnessing the Power of Project Management.

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Who Should Attend

  • Managers and project managers who work on international projects.
  • Project team members who manage or work on projects that have an international level of participation.

Professional Development and Continuing Education Units

This program awards 14 PDUs and 1.4 CEUs

Outcomes

Develop and enhance your global project management skills by being able to:

  • Understand and manage global stakeholder relationships
  • Manage both client and team expectations
  • Work effectively with different types of cultures and ethics
  • Resolve difficult cultural, distance or travel situations
  • Understand how to facilitate project communications in a global environment
  • Understand how to negotiate effectively with different cultures
  • Identify issues and plan solutions for the global project

Seminar Outline

Overview of Managing Global Projects

  • What is a global project?
  • Characteristics of global projects
  • Global project management processes

Preparing to Manage a Global Project

  • Understanding the context of your global project
  • Gathering information for global projects
  • Country studies
  • Initiating a global project

Challenges in Management of Global Projects

  • The global project plan
  • Forming a project team
  • Working with global stakeholder
  • Developing global project control plans

Factors Affecting Global Project Management

  • Getting started in the host country
  • Infrastructure and logistics challenges
  • Economic challenges
  • Cultural challenges

Avoiding Pitfalls in Global Projects

  • Industry challenges
  • Firm challenges
  • Team challenges

Keeping Global Projects under Control

  • The context for controlling global projects
  • Controlling processes

Closing a Global Project Effectively

  • Plan project closure
  • Relocation of the global project team
  • Tying up relationships

Coordinator(s)

Questions about this course?

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