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In preparing for a high-stakes project -- the redesign of a best-selling car -- VW Brazil revved up an ambitious training program to open up lines of communication, shape up project management methods and build up a team culture supported by a new PMO.
Improved communication and increased collaboration. That’s what the common ground of high-level project management training is delivering to employees at Volkswagen Brazil. According to Raimundo Ramos, VW Brazil’s Sao Paulo-based human resources executive manager, project-focused people are talking more effectively and department silos are coming down.
Thus far, 44 VW employees have earned master’s certificates in project management and 125 more have received basic project management training. The training is provided by Arlington, Va.-based ESI International via a multiyear agreement that continues through 2006.
And the advancements are only beginning. The real pots of gold at the end of the training rainbow are an engrained project management culture, a project management office and an outstanding redesign of one of VW Brazil’s popular, best-selling car models.
The Need for Change
The project environment wasn’t always as promising as it is now, according to Ramos. “Prior to the training, we didn’t have the correct methodology to follow our projects,” he says. “The idea was to introduce the master’s program to bring…
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