A significant number of projects fail to achieve their initial goals and/or are not completed within budget and their original timetable. As a team member, a CMA has a unique skill set and experiences to assist in project management.
DESIGNED FOR
Public, private, and non-profit organizations and their members – CFOs, CEOs, controllers and managers
BENEFITS
- Understand the process of project management
- Provide management and organizational techniques to establish the necessary environment for success and provide examples of alternative approaches to the process
- Demonstrate the use of analytical tools to assist throughout the process. These tools/techniques can improve the outcome of each step from selecting a project through planning, implementing, controlling, and when necessary, modifying the project.
- Identify traps that frequently occur, and steps to manage through them
- Find references for further research
HIGHLIGHTS
- Establishing a system: identifying forces that support the status quo; setting milestones and goals; the role of the CMA
- Necessary first steps: set a framework for the project’s activities; identify needed resources; obtain support; decide on a structure; establish a team for a specific project; identify necessary team skill sets
- Project evaluation: analytical tools, strategic evaluation; sources of risk
- Maintaining focus: monitoring and measuring results; keeping to the project’s scope
- Avoiding frequent traps: sunk costs; financing pitfalls; project creep; tunnel vision; failure to integrate the team’s work internally and/or the final project with the remaining organization
- Introduction and examples of analytical tools throughout the session: mapping; CPM; Gantt charts; benchmarking; Pareto analysis; PESTLE analysis; valuation techniques; post-completion evaluations
ADVANCE PREPARATION
None