Management of innovative projects - free course from the Russian School of Management, training, Date: December 7, 2023.

Ph.D., business coach, strategic management consultant. Development and implementation of corporate training programs.

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.

Strategic session. Organizational Change Management
• Strategy and communications in the organization.
• Distinctive features of a successful strategy.
• Organizational communications are the lifeblood of business.
• Conducting strategic sessions.
• Goals and formats of strategic sessions.
• Stages of a strategic session.
• Typical problems of strategic sessions.
• Results of strategic sessions.
• Obstacles to successful strategy implementation.
• Results of the strategic session: how to bring them to life?
• Organizational change management
• Perception of organizational change. Thinking styles and stages of perception of change.
• Success factors and typical mistakes of organizational changes.
• Methods of working with resistance to change. Effective organizational communications in the process of change.
• Communication process in the organization: roles, levels, effectiveness.
• Types of internal communications: downward, upward, horizontal.
• Formal and informal communications.
• Communication barriers and ways to overcome them.

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.