Director of the project office - free course from the Russian School of Management, training, date: December 6, 2023.

Certified Project Management Specialist (C/IPMA). Expert on project office, strategic programs and project portfolios.

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.

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.

Management of strategic programs and project portfolios
• Initiating and planning a program/project portfolio based on strategy. Typology of projects within the organization.
• Prioritization of projects within the program and functional portfolios.
• Project office (structure, powers, composition, responsibility). Development Directorate. Project teams of functional areas.
• Detailed planning of projects within the portfolio using the project server. Working with a corporate resource pool. Critical path and chain methods.
• Formation of the budget for the program of strategic projects.
• Change management during project implementation. Adjustments to strategy and project portfolios. Adjustments to project plans/budgets. Working with risks.
• Reporting on the program/project portfolio. Types and frequency of reports. Examples of reports.
• Completion of projects and transfer of their results to the business environment of the organization. Estimation of delayed effects. Qualitative and quantitative analysis.

Intensive development of the company: innovative projects and startups
• 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.

Systems thinking and idea generation in turbulent conditions
• System and systems thinking. Areas of use.
• Types of systems, laws and principles in the system.
• Elements and relationships in the system. Properties of the system and its parts.
• Information in systems. Feedback.
• Reinforcing and balancing feedback in systems.
• Cause and effect: error and truth.
• Construction of system models.
• Systems thinking tools.
• Creative and Logical thinking.
• 5 stages of the creative process. Warm up. Generating ideas (Brainstorming Tool). "Ripening" of ideas. Evaluation and selection of ideas. Final analysis.
• How to “pump up” your mind.