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POLICY AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT: making policies happen Workshop

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Venue: DPI&F Conference Centre, Ground Floor, Primary Industries Building, 80 Ann Street, Brisbane

Time: All workshops are conducted from 9am - 4:30pm

1-Day Workshop
Facilitated by: Professor Scott Prasser and Dr Gary Johns


Aims
Successful policy development is not only about defining problems and proposing ideas. These are important. To be a really effective policy player, skills are needed to operationalise ideas and policy goals into clear actions within definable time frames to produce assessable outcomes.

The purpose of this workshop is to connect policy development and in particular implementation to a project management process and framework. Project management techniques and processes offer a means of tackling essential policy development issues such as:

  • Establishing policy ownership
  • Managing organisational boundaries
  • Choosing policy instruments
  • Clarifying tasks
  • Defining work allocations
  • Allocating resources
  • Sequencing actions
  • Ensuring coordination
  • Maintaining commitment
  • Ensuring compliance
  • Promoting accountability
  • Monitoring progress
  • Meeting deadlines
  • Defining outcomes
  • Reviewing achievements

Key issues for discussion in this workshop include:

  • Understanding the policy development process
  • Implementation issues and problems
  • Connecting policy development to project management
  • Appreciating the project management framework
  • Thinking systematically about implementation
  • Clarifying policy and goals
  • Defining the operational issues
  • Assessing tasks, activities and work requirements
  • Allocating resources appropriately and in a timely manner
  • Defining deliverables within clear time frame

Methodology

The workshop will introduce participants to key concepts and information sharing and then through case studies, group activities and interactive tasks seek to provide a means for the application of these to real world situations.

This workshop equips participants to:

  • better appreciate the overall policy development process
  • understand the key tasks needed to operationalise policy
  • be able to apply a project management framework
  • connect policy development and project management
  • apply project management techniques and processes to effective policy implementation
  • better meet government priorities
  • manage resources more effectively


Who will benefit most from this Policy & Project Management workshop?

Public Sector Managers involved in:

  • policy development
  • managing across government programs
  • implementing policy projects
  • assessing and reviewing policy