Project Sponsoring Workshop Overview

This one-and-a-half-day workshop is targeted at managers who have not had prior formal project management training. It introduces managers to a common project management methodology and provides them with the information and skills they need to oversee projects effectively.

Participants will improve their project sponsorship skills by learning how to write a charter and to review a scope plan, organizational plan, risk assessment and resource plan. They will also learn the essential elements of a change management procedure, how to audit a status report, how to empower the project leader, and how to ensure the project stays on track. This workshop, like all the management workshops, can be customized to meet the needs of the client's management team.

Learning Objectives:

• Improve your ability to oversee projects
• Manage the project leader more effectively
• Ensure that projects are on track
• Understand the role the sponsor should play in creating a successful project

Skills You Will Learn:

• Write a charter
• Review a scope plan
• Review an organization/accountability plan
• Review an assurance plan
• Review a communications plan
• Review a resource plan (schedule, budget, staff effort estimate)
• Identify the essential elements of a change management procedure
• Audit a status report
• Appropriately empower the project leader
• Ensure the project is on track
• Effectively oversee the project
• Hold a review meeting with the project leader
• Close out a project

Sponsoring a Project
One-and-a-Half-Day Agenda

Day One:

• Business Process vs. Project Management Project Types
• Strategic Plan Deployment
• Approaches to Project Management
• Accountability
• Roles and Responsibilities
• Project Team Thinking Styles
• Project Management Process
• Standard Reporting
• Charter
• Project Leader Characteristics and Skills
• Kick-Off Meeting
• Scope Planning
• Scope Boundaries
• Reviews and Approvals
• Project Structure
• Work Breakdown Structure
• Team Composition
• Stakeholder Management

Day Two A.M.:

• Risk Threshold
• Risk Identification, Analysis and Response
• Opportunity Assessment
• Communication Plan
• Milestone Schedule
• Deliverables Schedule
• Schedule Contingency
• Staff Effort Forecast
• Spending Forecast and Estimate
• Change Management
• Project Status Reporting
• Project Close out