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Manage your project successfully in different sectors and contexts.
Work together successfully in a project team.
Examine the elements of a project (such as interfaces, stakeholders, cultures, environment, technology, etc.) and their intricate interactions.
Identify what makes a project complex and how to perform a complexity assessment.
Develop a complexity footprint and adapt your management processes to the complexities of your project.
4 months. 4 - 6 hours per week suggested.
2 virtual courses in soft skills
Underestimation of project complexity is widely accepted as one of the main causes of project failure.
Based on international benchmarking activities (Merrow, 2010), we know that an average of 40% of projects do not deliver what was promised.
So how can you, as an engineer with a technical background, improve the performance of your project? In this program, you'll learn the project management skills you need to successfully manage engineering projects.
First, you will focus on the early phases of the project, which are crucial to the success of the project.
Areas covered include the project manager and team, the project process, and the project context.
At the end of this part of the program, you will have created your own project execution plan.
But how will you deal with the inherent uncertainties related to the duration and scale of engineering and infrastructure projects and their ever-changing environments? As with most external factors, many of the causes and consequences of these uncertainties are difficult to avoid or control.
Attempts to overcome these challenges simply by trying to reduce their causes are not enough.
In the second part of the program, you will learn our approach to mastering project complexity, focused on front-end development and teamwork.
You'll develop the skills you need to take timely action to address complexities and improve the project's chances of success.
You will learn how to identify what makes a project complex and how to perform a complexity assessment.
You will analyze these elements in the context of your own project.
Then, Based on our complexity framework, you will identify the complexity footprint of your project and use it to adapt your management processes.
This course has been designed by TU Delft's international experts in project complexity and is based on more than 60 years of practical experience as well as relevant research in the field.
“We see that projects still fail and it is necessary to do things differently.
That's what this course is about: delivering best practices for project execution based on our cutting-edge research
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