Working with KT

KT Driver
Effective decision making propels a project from an optimistic start to a brilliant finish

Decision making is a key tactical skill that every project manager and project team member should possess. A robust decision-making process allows projects to move smoothly from initiation to closure.

Combining theory, application, and practice, this workshop helps you learn and apply a decision-driven approach to project management that dramatically improves your project execution. Learn to quickly scan project status to identify issues that can affect project success—and to respond to these issues and mitigate threats to their resolution. Over the course of a project’s lifecycle, some decisions are straightforward yet highly critical, such as selecting vendors, assigning responsibilities, and scheduling deliverables.  Others are more challenging, such as selecting project objectives, deciding whether to continue or kill a project, or determining how to proceed to the next phase of a project. Using the systematic KT approach you will improve the way these decisions are made and embraced. No matter the size or complexity of the project, this workshop prepares you to act on the decision points that influence the progress of the project and actively balance stakeholder expectations with the best possible choices.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
You will learn to make high-quality project decisions based on available knowledge and expertise. Using the KT approach brings transparency to the reasoning behind a decision so it is accessible and understood by others.

At the end of the workshop, you will be able to:

• Scan projects during implementation and at milestone reviews to pinpoint areas of concern
• Clarify project concerns to know how to resolve them
• Identify whom to involve and how much to involve them in resolving the concerns

• Write clear decision statements for choices to be made during implementation
• Develop decision objectives with appropriate stakeholder involvement
• Evaluate the performance of available alternatives and select the most balanced choice
• Identify and assess risks for the best performing alternatives
• Develop plans to prevent and mitigate risks

• Assess project-related recommendations from stakeholders
• Present project-related recommendations to important stakeholders and gain approval
• Use the scan, select, mitigate techniques to resolve project issues collaboratively

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