Martin Training Associates

Building Project Management Skills

Overall PM Skills 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 C.O.R.E. 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 the robust methods contained in the Project Managmement Institute, A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge, (PMBOK® Guide) - Fourth Edition, Project Management Institute, Inc., 2008 to real-life projects and relate what you have learned to your own project experience. Discussion questions will also help you relate what you've learned to your own real-life experiences.

Target Workshop 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

Project Management 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 / Prerequisites

14 units

Prerequisites

none

Materials Provided

Workshop notebook, The Project Management Memory Jogger™

 

Testimonials

What our class attendees
are saying:

“Great class! Timely; atmosphere of creativity and fun created by the instructor.”

“[The] exercises forced me to be interactive and participatory which resulted in better understanding of course objective.”

“I thoroughly enjoyed this workshop. The materials are clearly presented, the exercises were well timed and relevant and the instructors were extremely knowledgeable. I would strongly recommend this course to others.”

 

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