COURSE 4100 | 2-DAY SESSION
Managing Outsource/Offshore Projects

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Capitalize on Lean, Agile, and controlled project management principles for success in leading and managing outsourced projects. Get your skills recognized and gain credibility with this in-demand certification.

In this class, you will learn how to:

• Retain outsourced project cost reductions through solid engagement control
  
• Utilize cultural diversity to amplify result delivery
  
• Control known outsource risks
  
• Understand joint and individual project responsibilities
  
• Prepare for outsourced projects – getting your business in order
  
• Appreciate the true value of outsourcing through proper cost and benefit analysis
  
• Manage outsourced engagement involving traditional and agile delivery models
  
• Acknowledge the importance of viability when compared to capability
  

As an added bonus, you will receive recognition as Certified Outsource/Offshore Project Managers (COOPM). This designation is sanctioned by the International Institute for Outsource Management and recognizes your proficiency in this critically important, highly specialized topic area.

20 Key benefits of Attending this class

1. Learn to accurately measure the cost versus the benefits on any outsourced project
   
2. Learn the mechanics of cross-cultural teamwork, and how to integrate them on your projects
   
3. How your weaknesses that you compensated for now have to be addressed when projects are outsourced
   
4. Learn why successful outsourcing is not driven by contractual stipulations (these are remedial measures)
   
5. Understand the importance of ownership responsibilities being clearly defined
   
6. Evaluate the different communication mediums available, and why multiple trips might be necessary
   
7. Learn why onshore contracts from outsource providers does not deliver better results
   
8. Understand how project management involves 3 plans, each intertwined with the other (outsourcer-client-collaborative plans)
   
9. Appreciate that outsourcing requires onshore investment in details that would have been compensated for through local understanding
   
10. Understand that a ‘word’ does not necessarily mean ‘the word’
    
11. Learn why failure propensity in outsourcing is directly attributableto mutual misunderstanding and lack of outsourcing knowledge and experience
    
12. Establish realistic expectations beyond cost savings
    
13. Determine what portion of work to outsource and what portion to retain
    
14. Learning the warning signs of things going wrong and techniques for dealing with them early
    
15. Incorporate cultural benefits that add value to all team members
    
16. Know when owning offshore may be the answer to success, and when it is not the answer for your situation
    
17. Learn how to pick the right project and techniques for ensuring its success
    
18. Form-specific measures that monitor outsourced projects
    
19. Learn the key steps to becoming an effective Outsource/Offshore Project Manager
    
20. Establish how Outsource/Offshore Project Management can be a team event, and why that matters