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Managing Complexity in Technology Projects

Course Overview: 

A two-day advanced course for Information Technology and Product Development project managers that routinely deal with multiple stakeholder environments, competing priorities, and constantly shifting requirements, technologies, and competition.

Course Description: 

The SOMOS course Managing Complexity in Technology Projects is an advanced course for project managers whose projects require more than a Gantt chart and weekly team meeting to manage.

Project managers leading Information Technology and Product Development projects are expected to overcome extreme technical challenges in an environment of multiple stakeholders, competing priorities, and constantly shifting requirements, technologies, and competition. Of course, the basic demands for "First Class Results, On-Time, On Budget" still hold.

Objectives: 

The SOMOS course Managing Complexity in Technology Projects gives attendees the tools to deal with those challenges.

This course begins by looking at the environment that is encountered in Product Development and Information Technology projects. We examine the nature of complexity, arising from issues of technology, organization, personality, legislation, competition, and dynamics. Some of the common models for describing and managing complexity are surveyed and compared. We then present several powerful tools that project managers can use to manage the complexity that they encounter.

This course is built on proven principles from Systems Engineering and Project Leadership, as well as the latest thinking in Agile Software Development and Management Science.

This course uses a combination of lecture presentation, case study, discussion, and group work. It is intended for experienced project managers. Attendees will take away a set of practical tools to analyze the nature of their project's complexity, to reduce that complexity, and to successfully deal with the different elements of complexity.

Duration: 

2 days | 14 PDUs

Class Size: 

SOMOS experience has shown the optimal class size to be between 14 and 20 students. This enables proper interaction between the participants and the instructor.

Target Audience: 

Experienced project managers 

Registration Information: 

This course is offered to groups of 15 or more.

If you would like to discuss your organization's management development needs with a SOMOS account executive, please click here or call 613-592-5050 x229.

Refer to course code 2MCTP00- Managing Complexity in Technology Projects