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Special Topic Courses GPD's innovative courses have been delivered successfully at leading corporations and universities, continuously improved through partnership with recognized leaders in project management, global business strategy, intercultural studies, and systems engineering. These courses focus on special topics for addressing the challenges of teamwork during complex projects. |
Consistent with Project Management Standards (PMBOK, P2M, Prince2) and best practices from GPD experience across sectors and global regions, this course for non-experts establishes fundamentals of project design and management. The course can be tailored to reflect the terminology and priorities of performance for your organization. |
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Teams on complex projects struggle with uncertain future events which lead to both risks and opportunities. This course provides the systems thinking and practical techniques for teams to manage program risks working across boundaries -- functional, corporate, and cultural. |
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Lean management techniques, originally pioneered for production, have now been shown to be effective to address waste, value driven leverage of resources, coordination across work chains, and ongoing learning. This course introduces the principles of lean management and applies them to practical techniques for designing and ongoing performance of complex projects. |
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The Project Definition Rating Index (PDRI) evaluates completeness and accuracy of scope definition as appropriate at various project stages. Participants will be able to prepare PDRI for their own projects and lead cross-functional teams in PDRI at key milestones in product development. |
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Global initiatives present challenges -- teams with work cultures and abilities across subsystems, services, and time zones to be integrated in an overall solution. This course covers case studies and best practices cover cross-boundary product development, cross-cultural coordination, outsourcing/ offshoring, localization, and virtual teams. |
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This course, explores foundations and techniques for high performance teamwork with Japan. |
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