Overview
Registrations close 1 week before the course.
The course is designed to introduce organisational leaders and core enabling staff to the concepts of complex project management and systems thinking. It's not only suitable for experienced and aspiring program delivery leaders, but also for staff of complex projects and leaders of enabling functions who contribute to the success of complex projects. Who should participate The course will benefit organisational leaders, senior and aspiring projects managers, key project management staff, commercial managers, supply chain managers, portfolio managers and key advisors independent of sector or program type.
- Delivery
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Where:
We're offering this course in Brisbane and Canberra.
- Brisbane
- QUT Gardens Point
Executive Education Centre
B Block, Level 4 - Canberra
- QUT Deakin campus
2 King Street
Canberra
Details: We'll email you activities for you to complete before the workshop, and an electronic copy of the reading material, which includes the cases discussed during the workshop.Brisbane Canberra 18-20 March 2013, 9.00am - 5.00pm 6-8 May 2013, 9.00am - 5.00pm 23-25 October 2013, 9.00am - 5.00pm 23-25 September 2013, 9.00am - 5.00pm
On the day, you'll receive a printed version of the reading material and additional supporting documents. This includes Michael C Jackson's book Creative Holism for Managers. - Cost
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$3,025 (inc GST) per person (discount for bookings of 4 or more).
All-day catering provided.
- Contact
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For more information about this course, contact Natasha Crossley.
Details
Registrations close 1 week before the course.
This course is an introduction to those wishing to enhance their understanding of complex project management.
It provides a conceptual bridge, complementing and extending traditional analytical tools of senior organisational members, project portfolio directors and project managers into the field of complex project management. It takes participants through the strategic imperatives within complex systems through to organisational and holistic systems approaches, so they can design and manage viable project systems, and solve emerging problems.
The course starts with the real-world issues that have led to adopting a systems thinking approach to complex projects. The context also considers organisational strategy, stakeholder needs, and project delivery architecture.
During the 3-day program we work with a number of cases to bring together the systems methodologies that may be applied to help with the design of the content with an example project delivery methodology. Participants have significant opportunities to consider the transfer of the learning to their own projects.
What will participants get out of this course?
By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
- make sense of complex problems using soft systems methodology
- challenge project/problem boundaries and 'taken for granted assumptions using critical systems heuristics
- use the 'viable system model'
- understand organisational strategy and strategic alignment
- implement a complex program.
Participants have significant opportunities to consider the transfer of their new knowledge to their own projects. Feedback for this course shows that the transfer of learning to the workplace is immediate and powerful.
Credit points for industry reaccreditation
Credit points are available toward reaccreditation with industry bodies. Contact Natasha Crossley for details.
Modules
This course includes 7 modules. After they're completed, the focus is brought back to participants and their organisations. We encourage participants to identify system methodologies that may be applied to help with their own organisational challenges.
Module 1
Module 1 sets the context in which decisions about complex project management are made, with a focus on the systemic and strategic context of complex projects. The module covers the language of complexity and the critical variable that is strategy in successful complex project management.
Module 2
Module 2 demonstrates that due to the evolving and interactive complexity of problems, systems-thinking managers must be creative and holistic in their approach to tackling problems. Often several systems approaches will be required in combination to address the root causes of a complex problem.
Module 3
Module 3 deals with the way that we look at the world and how this view impacts our decisions when managing complex projects.
Module 4
Module 4 introduces the 'viable system model', which contributes to designing a viable organisation to achieve goals, and looks at how cybernetic principles assist organisation design.
Module 5
Module 5 examines how we make sense of complex problems using soft systems methodology, intervention approaches to solving complex problems, and engagement with complex project stakeholders to achieve a common purpose.
Module 6
Module 6 challenges project/problem boundaries and assumptions, using critical systems heuristics to ensure fairness. It looks at giving a 'voice' to 'silent' stakeholders, and deals with thinking 'out of the box' to address emerging issues in new ways.
Module 7
Module 7 looks at applying creative holism and critical systems practice to generate integrated approaches to deal with complex problems.
Register
Registrations close 1 week before the course.
This course is offered by QUT, in conjunction with the International Centre for Complex Project Management (ICCPM).
Register for the Brisbane course in March
Register for the Canberra course in May
Please note registration for the Brisbane course in October will open in April. Registration for the Canberra course in September will open in May.
