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Managing Troubled Projects
Make the most of your training time by attending this half-day course on some of the hottest topics in project management.
Are you leading a project that seems like it’s doomed to fail? Are you constantly putting out fires on a project and it’s spiraling out of control? This course gives you stress-relieving tools and techniques to manage troubled projects and determine if they can be recovered. You’ll learn how to assess a project’s health, how to communicate project challenges to upper management, and when and how to save a project or just pull the plug.
Who Should Attend
- Project Managers responsible for leading multi person or cross functional teams who are currently leading a project that is at risk of not meeting its goals
- If you are leading a project in the execution phase and are at risk of any of the following:
- Estimated budget, schedule, or scope will not be met
- Overall quality will not be acceptable or
- Project customers will not be satisfied
- Project managers looking to proactively learn about how to detect and course correct a troubled project
Immediate Takeaways & Benefits
- Understand and identify drivers of project failure
- Use tools to monitor if a project is in trouble
- Rapidly assess project health and identify the root cause of troubles
- Develop a project recovery plan
About the Instructor
Patty Kramer is an adjunct assistant instructor in MSOE’s Rader School of Business, where she teaches graduate-level marketing, project management and leadership courses. She has more than 20 years experience working in the marketing ranks for consumer products companies such as SC Johnson, Dow Chemical and Hanover Foods, and she has led numerous innovation and business projects. She is the founder and president of BrandBlazers, a marketing consulting and leadership training company that works with clients and their teams across a variety of product and service categories.
Course Details
Dates: TBD
Time: 8 a.m. - Noon
PDHs: 4.0 | CEUs: 0.4
Price: $695
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— Patty Kramer, MSOE instructor and marketing expert
