Project integration ensures all processes in a project run smoothly, and results in a properly synchronized series of deliverables such as the project charter, project plan, and preliminary project scope statement. This course will help managers plan the integration needs, communicate with staff and stakeholders, and integrate the project into an organizational portfolio. Along the way, Bob McGannon, PMP, shows how to ensure your scope, risk, and change approaches are in sync; recognize warning signs when integration goes awry; and plan the simultaneous integration of multiple projects and customer deliverables.

Topics include:

• Planning for integration
• Managing scope, cost, and risk
• Integration and communication techniques
• Staffing the integration
• Mapping project interrelationships
• Dealing with multiple critical paths

• Introduction
• 1. Integration Management Fundamentals
• 2. Integration Management Master Tips
• 3. Integrating Your Project Within an Organizational Portfolio
• Conclusion
• Frequently Asked Questions

Bob McGannon is vice-president of Mindavation in the United States and director of Mindavation Pty Ltd in Australia. Both of these consultancy organizations focus on increasing business capabilities in the portfolio, program, and project management space by providing delivery consultants, workshops, and coaching.

Bob specializes in strategic program and portfolio management and has helped set up project management offices on three different continents. He has 25 years of IT, project management, and project analysis experience, 18 of those years with the IBM Corporation. His management experience includes technology outsourcing, IT delivery measurement and quality, business analysis, and general project management. Bob has worked internationally while playing a major role in the development of international trade applications in use in the United States and Europe, and recently worked in Australia on a consulting engagement with Medicare in Canberra. He has managed project teams as large as 460 individuals, once serving as the IT delivery manager for IBM, supporting American Express.

Bob is certified as a Project Management Professional by the Project Management Institute, an Executive Project Manager with IBM, and a Certified Project Management Coach for the Boeing Corporation. He also holds a practitioner certificate in the PRINCE2 project management methodology and has written papers and articles that have been published internationally.