How to launch a startup in a project company - free course from the Russian School of Management, training, date: November 28, 2023.

Project management - from charter to reports
• Introduction to project management.
• Project initiation. Preparing for an effective start.
• Building an organizational structure.
• Project scope management.
• Deadline management.
• Creation of a project management system in the organization.
• Management of risks.
• Project control and monitoring/change management.

Strategy. Business transformation. Balanced Scorecard
• Assessing the current strategic position, identifying possible options for business transformation.
• Analysis of industry development trends and the region where the company operates.
• Assessing the current strategic position and key risks.
• Identification of areas of strategic problems.
• Assessing the effectiveness of the organization of key business processes.
• Analysis of options for strategic development of the company.
• Assessment of development opportunities in terms of available resources and operating technologies.
• Development of strategic options for business transformation.
• Business optimization in conditions of stabilization of the market situation.
• Business contraction due to a sharp deterioration in the market situation.
• Active development in promising segments.
• Business reengineering with a radical change in strategy.
• Assessing the need and possibilities for using innovative solutions.
• Structuring and formalization of the company's strategic goals in the logic of the balanced scorecard.
• Analysis of available resources and key performance indicators.
• Transformation of strategic goals to the level of processes and projects.
• Interpretation of strategic goals at the level of financial prospects.
• Identification of cause-and-effect relationships between performance indicators.

Flexible project management in business
• The place of flexible design approaches in business. Product Development, Customer Development and Lean Startup.
• Business model of the project and business.
• MVP. A minimally working product to find a solution.
• Pivot: when and how a decision or strategy should be changed.
• Agile in project management. Popularity of different Agile approaches.
• Scrum. The concept of Sprint. Roles in Scrum.
• Team members. Functions and required skills.
• Documents in the project: Product backlog. Sprint backlog. Burndown chart.
• Processes: Sprint planning, review and retrospective. Scrum meeting.
• Implementation of Scrum. Problems and solutions.

Project team management
• Project team: composition, structure, characteristics.
• Defining the roles of project team members (according to M. Belbin).
• Tasks of forming a project team.
• Project manager competency model using the “PMI talent triangle” (key skill groups).
• Determining the types of motivation of project team members.
• Tools and methods for project team management.
• Development of interpersonal relationships in the team, effective decision making.
• Features of a remote team.
• Specifics of the role of a manager managing employees remotely.
• Main tasks and difficulties of remote management.
• Main channels of remote communications.
• Overcoming information distortions in remote communication.
• How to establish constructive communication remotely.

Intensive development of the company. Innovation and Start-up
• Areas of innovative development. Innovation strategy, new products and services, breakthrough business models, technological innovation.
• Innovation Factory. Creating an intensive process for generating and implementing new ideas. How to move from one-time ideas to a full-fledged system.
• Portfolio management of innovative projects. How not to slip into bureaucracy, but to ensure the reliability and transparency of innovative projects.
• Startup. How to launch a real startup in an existing company, because this is not just a project or creating a business.
• Risks. The desire for risk is the basis of real breakthroughs. Risks carry the threat of losses, but open up serious opportunities for growth and development.