Project Management Workshops

Building Project Management Skills

Overall Workshop Description

Learn a team-based, collaborative approach to project management that will improve your bottom line results. Intended for everyone in the organization, this hands-on, highly interactive workshop immerses participants in the simple, easy-to-use Martin Training CORE PM method, with minimal lecture and maximum class involvement.

You'll learn how to create a charter and a project plan, and how to monitor project progress and control change. While working on a case study, or a project of your own, you'll learn how to apply this robust, PMBOK® 2000 Guide aligned method to real-life projects and relate what you have learned to your own project experience. Discussion questions will help you relate what you've learned to your own real-life experiences.

Target Audience

Project leaders and/or project team members

Length of Workshop

2 Days

Learning Objectives

The major learning objectives for the workshop include:

• Work with the sponsor to start the project off in the right direction
• Become a better project leader
• Work through a collaborative planning process
• Maintain team member accountability during project execution

What You Will Learn

PM Concepts you will learn:

• Foster team participation
• Create a team contract
• Create a charter
• Define the scope of the project
• Set scope boundaries
• Break down the work
• Determine who should be on the team
• Develop a deliverables schedule
• Estimate spending
• Assess risks
• Create countermeasures to reduce risk
• Manage changes to the plan
• Monitor project progress
• Hold status meetings
• Write a status report
• Manage an issues list
• Capture lessons learned
• Assemble a project plan
• Write a close out report . . . and more.

Detailed Agenda

DAY ONE

• Introductions
• Introduction to the Project Process
• Exercise - Project Problems
• Roles & Responsibilities
• The Components of a Charter
• Exercise - Write a Charter
• Exercise - Discussion Questions
• Creating an Issues List & Lessons Learned List
• Kicking Off the Project
• Exercise - Team Thinking Styles
• Building a Team
• Team Contract
• Principles of Team Leadership
• Project Leader Skills & Characteristics
• Exercise - Project Leader Self-Assessment
• Scope Definition
• Exercise - Scope Definition
• Project Types
• Interim Deliverables
• Subproject Work Breakdown Structure

DAY TWO

• Exercise - WBS
• Exercise - Discussion Questions
• Risk Assessment
• Exercise - Risk Assessment
• Estimating
• Exercise - Schedule Preparation
• Scheduling
• Exercise - Creating a Schedule
• Shortening the Schedule
• Documenting the Schedule
• Spending Estimate
• Exercise - Project Solutions
• Assemble the Plan
• Change Management
• Exercise - Project Solutions
• Team Meetings
• Status Reporting
• Exercise - Team Meeting
• Communicating with the Sponsor & Customer
• Close Out

PDU's

14 units

Prerequisites

none

Materials Provided

Workshop notebook, The Project Management Memory Jogger™