Transitioning from Project Manager to Program Manager
This one-hour webinar is designed to help you see the landscape from a Program Manager’s point of view. You’ll explore the structural, financial, and scheduling complexities that define program management, gaining insight into the challenges before attempting to solve them.
Description
Gain a clear perspective on the unique challenges of program management, including reporting, resourcing, hierarchy, cost, and schedule management, so you can anticipate, interpret, and navigate the complexities of leading multiple projects.
Presenter
Led by renowned instructor, Barry Mulkhraj! Barry is a Project Management Professional (PMP), Six Sigma Green Belt (SSGB), Certified Professional Coach (CPC), and a Professional Motivational Speaker with more than two decades of experience leading, teaching, and transforming project performance for hundreds of corporate and government organizations.
Barry speaks on project leadership, operational excellence, performance psychology, and strategic execution in uncertain environments. His sessions are energetic, precise, and insight-driven - designed to move audiences from information to transformation.
Course Outline
Reporting Challenges
- Managing multiple project dashboards and conflicting metrics.
- Communicating progress and risk up the hierarchy.
- Visibility versus overload: what executives and sponsors need to see.
Resourcing Challenges
- Allocating limited resources across interdependent projects.
- Conflicting priorities and competing demands on teams.
- Understanding trade-offs and ripple effects.
Management Hierarchy Challenges
- Leading without direct authority over all project teams.
- Navigating complex reporting lines and cross-functional dependencies.
- Balancing influence, alignment, and escalation.
Cost Management Challenges
- Managing budgets across multiple projects with interrelated impacts.
- Understanding aggregated program costs versus individual project costs.
- Anticipating financial risks that emerge from interdependencies.
Schedule Management Challenges
- Coordinating timelines across multiple, interdependent projects.
- Understanding critical paths at the program level.
- Handling cascading delays and impact on program objectives.