Course Schedule

Managing Multiple Projects

In today's fast-paced environment, few project managers are fortunate enough to manage only one project at a time. In fact, it's not uncommon to see project managers juggling as many as ten projects simultaneously—with varying types of complexities, durations, and sizes. The ability to manage multiple related and unrelated projects and prioritize competing demands is crucial to the success of today's multitasking project manager. Monitoring and controlling multiple projects presents additional challenges. This course focuses on these challenges and emphasizes the tools and techniques for project success.

In this hands-on, project-driven course, students learn to successfully apply tools and techniques to ensure projects succeed. Students will gain insight into multitasking strategies, planning and scheduling multiple projects, analyzing and evaluating schedules, prioritizing project work, effective delegation, and specific strategies for monitoring and controlling multiple projects.


  • Understand key concepts related to managing multiple projects
  • Apply effective multitasking strategies
  • Plan and schedule multiple projects
  • Perform an assessment of multiple project schedules
  • Prioritize and delegate project work
  • Monitor, control, and report on multiple projects

Key Concepts

  • What Is Multiple Project Management?
  • Project Management Environmental Factors
  • Project vs. Program Managers
  • Functional & Projectized Organizational Structures
  • Program & Portfolio Management
  • Address the Competing Demands on Multiple Projects
  • Stakeholder Management Process
  • Lesson Summary

Multitasking

  • Introduction to Multitasking
  • Microsoft®'s Tagline 1994–1999
  • Prevalence of Multitasking
  • Distractions of Office Life
  • Science of Multitasking
  • Reasons to Stop Multitasking
  • In Defense of Multitasking
  • Switchtasking & Continual Partial Attention
  • Impacts of Multitasking
  • Lesson Summary

Planning & Scheduling Multiple Projects

  • Stream of Projects
  • Initiating & Planning Multiple Projects
  • Integrated Master Plan (IMP)
  • Integrated Product Team (IPT)
  • Work Breakdown Structures (WBSs)
  • Scheduling Multiple Projects
  • Multiple Project Resource Allocation
  • Integrated Master Schedule (IMS)
  • Risk Management on Multiple Projects
  • Aligning Multiple Projects
  • Registration of Projects into the Portfolio
  • Working with the Program/Project Management Office (PMO)
  • Lesson Summary

Assessing Multiple Project Schedules

  • Common Scheduling Terms
  • Schedule Assessment Best Practices
  • Lesson Summary

Prioritizing & Delegating

  • Project Prioritization
  • Delegation
  • Lesson Summary

Monitoring, Controlling, & Reporting

  • Monitoring & Controlling Overview
  • Variance Analysis
  • Reporting EVM in a Multiple Project Environment
  • Executing, Monitoring & Controlling Checks
  • Issue Management on Multiple Projects
  • Project Reporting
  • Lesson Summary

Action Planning

  • Action Plan

This course is intended for project and program managers responsible for managing interrelated and independent projects who requires a formal framework for managing multiple and sub-projects.