How to build successful project strategy

• Setup targets for project
• Build successful project strategy
• Align project strategy to enterprise strategy process
• Define KPIs according to expected outcomes
• Techniques to follow status and do corrections

The tools and techniques to learn in this course

1. SWOT analysis

• Strengths to understand why project is able to be successful
• Weaknesses to know how weaknesses can be changed to opportunities or even strengths
• Opportunities to see how project communication will be successful
• Threats to know risks or possible issues to avoid

2. Balanced scorecard

• Financial perspective to keep KPIs on track for budget, schedule and scope estimates
• Internal perspective for creating KPIs to follow improve of project successes
• Customer or external perspective to know what will be beneficial for customers
• Learning and growth perspective to know your team is learning and project is aligned with enterprise strategy

3. Design thinking

• Make sure project is following best practice for end products
• Keep preparations and definitions clear to all
• Find improvement in testing
• Follow target of requirements

4. Templates for documents such as project charter, project plan, risk matrix, issue and change log

• Project charter to define milestones and used methodologies
• Project plan to execute in line (note in agile methodology more concentrated in story items and epics)
• Risk matrix to understand severity and likelihood
• Issue and change for keeping track

5. Linear responsibility chart

• Collecting all involved people and groups
• Seeing abilities for affections
• Understanding power of people
• Planning communication actions

6. AIDA communication method

• Attention to wake up audience
• Interest to get audience ready for message
• Desire to make audience want this project or end product
• Action to ask for some tasks or other thing to happen