Goal Directed Project Management

Audience

Senior Responsible Owners, programme, portfolio and project sponsors, steering group and project/programme board members, key stakeholders, programme and project managers, project executives, team leaders, team members, project and programme office staff – in fact, anyone involved in defining plans and then delivering against them

Background

Goal Directed Project Management (GDPM) provides an extremely powerful, yet deceptively simple, approach for ‘cutting-through-the-detail’ to provide a one-page view of a complete business project or programme showing all key milestones and progress towards achieving them.

GDPM offers a set of consensus-based planning techniques, which focus on the fundamental business outcomes that are required from the project or programme, and who is responsible for delivering them.

These techniques are first applied during project mobilisation, resulting in a Milestone Plan which is then used throughout the project as a high-level tracking and communications tool. Detailed planning is still required, of course, but is always aligned with the Milestones.

GDPM has been used by many organisations over the last twenty five years to strengthen their activity-based delivery plans by providing high-level clarity of true project and programme achievement against goals.

Objectives

On completion, delegates will be able to start applying the GDPM techniques to real projects and programmes, to:

• Identify and agree project or programme outcomes
• Build and improve a Milestone Plan as part of a team
• Identify roles and responsibilities for Milestones, as part of a team
• Link the Milestone Plan to the detailed workplans
• Monitor progress against the Milestone Plan
• Describe how GDPM supports industry-standard methods such as PRINCE2®

Course Content               

• An introduction to GDPM
• Overall objectives of the project or programme: Milestone planning
• Overall responsibilities: Responsibility charting
• Delivering the outcome: detailed workplans
• Tracking and comms:  using GDPM throughout the project or programme
• Putting it all into practice

The course uses a real-life social scenario (not workplace related) to practice the GDPM techniques. The lecturers also draw on their personal experiences of using GDPM to illustrate how it works in the business environment

Duration

One day in-house. The course is most effective when it is followed by a facilitated project day

Awards

n/a

Delivered by

This course is delivered in association with SMA

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