Managing Projects Workshop Overview 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™