Core Skills for Managing Projects
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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 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 or 3 Days (3 days is the preferable length)
Case Studies Available
There are four options for case studies :
- IT - This case study is oriented to the development of an e-commerce web site.
- NPD - This case study involves the development of a baby heart monitor.
- Generic - The development of community leaders is the generic case study.
- Client's Real Life Project(s) - Bring your own project and use it as the case study for the workshop. Get work done in real-time!
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
- Lead a team through a collaborative planning process
- Maintain team member accountability during project execution
What You Will Learn
HOW TO:
- 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 staff effort & 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
- Life Cycle Stages
- The Components of a Charter
- Exercise - Write a Charter
- 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
DAY TWO
- Scope Definition
- Scope Boundaries
- Exercise - Acceptance Criteria
- Project Types
- Interim Deliverables
- Subproject Work Breakdown Tree
- Exercise - Subproject Work Breakdonw Tree
- Exercise - Discussion Questions
- Risk Assessment
- Exercise - Risk Assessment
- Reviews & Approvals
- Communication Planning
DAY THREE
- Scheduling
- Exercise - Creating a Schedule
- Critical Path
- Contingency
- Shortening the Schedule
- Documentation
- Staff Effort Estimate
- Spending Estimate
- Change Management
- Assemble the Plan
- Exercise - Project Solutions
- Team Meetings
- Status Reporting
- Exercise - Team Meeting
- Communicating with the Sponsor & Customer
- Close Out
PDU's
21 Units (3 day workshop)
Prerequisites
None
Materials Provided
Workshop notebook, The Project Management Memory Jogger™