Projects live and die by the value they create for the organization. The dilemma is that in our turbulent business environment, strategy is ever changing.  Projects that were ideal at launch quickly become of low value, and other projects become better investments.  Yet our project selection and on-going management processes do not take strategic priorities into account.

During this half day session, you’ll be playing The Game of Strategic Project Management. You, along with a team of five to seven other PM’s will be given the resources to fund four projects and take them through a 25-move 4’ x 6’ game board. You will learn and practice the principles of SPM as you use strategic priorities to select and launch projects, deal with resource and funding issues, changes in strategy, etc. with each roll of the dice. ‘The winning team’ will get more ‘strategy points’ across the finish line than the others.

These team based exercises will highlight the importance of employee engagement. Attendees will discover how to establish the strategic value of projects and 'allocate' that value back to the teams and the people completing the project work. Keeping score, participants will realize the impacts of related decisions on project execution and will learn how to use the Balanced Scorecard to manage stakeholder expectations. The lessons you will learn will be immediately applicable to your organizations.

Don’t miss The Game of Strategic Project Management led by Brett Knowles, Achievement Evangelist, Strategic Planning, Portfolio Management and Balanced Scorecard expert. His client results are published in Harvard Business Review, Forbes, Fortune and countless other business magazines, books and periodicals.