Mastering Digital Project
Mastering Digital Project Management Essentials
Duration: 1 Day ( 9 – 5 pm)
When digital projects go wrong, the costs implications can be astounding. This training programme is for anyone involved with specifying, commissioning or running large digital projects – from introducing new management systems, to building a new website, Game Development, Mobile Application Development, iPad Applications Development, etc to integrating all your digital marketing practices. Whatever the project, this course will deliver skills in good planning, setting the criteria for success, project control and disaster recovery.
Managing projects is an ardous task. Projects can vary in size and complexity so with any two projects not being on the same scale or magnitude. Client demands can be chaotic and hard to manage in the beginning. Priorities from other stakeholders may cause conflicts. Issues escalate daily and start affecting delivery milestones – derailing your project.
How do you manage such a dynamic environment. To start with – say YES – I CAN!
Key Focus:
- Project Management techniques gathered from working on large complex projects with diverse groups in different geographies
- Key steps to limit scope creep and change requests
- 5 Essential skills you need as a project manager
- 5 important communication strategies to help you deal with all levels – internal and external
- 7 Ways to mitigate and manage risk
- Important and essential tools and documentation
- Overcoming problems (thinking out of the box)
Who should attend?
- Anyone tasked with specifying, commissioning or running a large digital project – agency or client side
Benefits to you and your company
- You will leave with a clear understanding of how to successfully plan, run and control a digital project – avoiding project failure and potentially saving your company millions.
Programme Outline:
Introduction
- Types of major digital projects (Website, Animation, iPhone, iPAD, Game, Mobile, etc)
- Project Managers v Fire Fighters
Getting the basics right
- Having a solid business case for the project
- Devising a clear plan and setting the criteria for success
- Users and stakeholders
- Ease and effectiveness models/workshops
Arriving at a good plan
- Corporate profiling – unbundling the organisation
- Visibility, collaboration and accountability
- Risk and governance
- Strategy and success metrics
- Communication within the organisation
- Consulting relevant external partners
- Leadership and support
- Change management
- Risk and governance
- Linking business strategies to IT and digital strategies
- Procurement processes and the legal side
- Invitation to Tender (ITT) preparation
- Budgeting
Vendor selection
- Single vendor or several?
- Sourcing the right type of vendor
Project Control
- Who manages the project – internally and externally?
- Testing
- Schools of Project Management, e.g. PRINCE2, Scrum
- Gant charts, site maps, wireframes, content manifests/matrixes and online collaborative tools
Disaster recovery
- Avoid scapegoating
- Identifying likely stumbling blocks, e.g. cost, time
- Get the project back on track!
- When to euthanize the project
Training
- Costs – in time and money
- The importance of implementing the right training
Closing the project
- Prove it has been successful against the agreed objectives
- Undertake a post project review – and learn from it
- Produce a project report