Project
Management: Tools and Tactics Details
Learning
Outcomes: Participants will...
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Improve cost, schedule and requirements
performance |
Be able to develop
effective team charters and ground rules |
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Learn
key elements of project success
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Learn and practice three
planning and two scheduling tools |
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Be able to develop and
defend a sound project scope |
Learn and practice risk
assessment techniques |
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Understand and use phase-gate
life cycles for control |
Creatively use project
responsibility charts |
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Improve “up-front” planning |
Be able to analyze and
overcome
implementation problems |
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Be able to create sound
project definitions |
Develop a broad
understanding of project control tools |
A Typical Two-Day Outline,
Annotated
This
section stresses the payoffs and issues around good planning
practices; it develops the case for concurrent or “up front”
planning. It includes a two-hour group planning exercise as
well, introducing teamwork issues early.
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I. |
The PM Process |
What Is Project Management?
Project Management Effectiveness
Team Project Planning Exercise
Project Planning: A Life
Cycle View
Planning: Investing In Success
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Participants learn about basic PM tools such as work
breakdown structures (using several planning tools), bar
charts, CPM methods. Most involve hands-on exercises. |
II. |
Project Planning
& Management |
Purpose & Targets: Charter
and Definition
Work Breakdown
Structures
Multiple Pass
Planning: Three Tools
Risk Mitigation
Scheduling
Bar Charts
Network Methods
Resource Loading and
Leveling
Responsibility Charts
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Group
decision-making and teamwork is addressed in an exercise
stressing application to participants' own experience.
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III. |
Managing Project
Teamwork |
Group Decisions: When? Why? How?
Project
Team Exercise |
We
focus on “back home” implementation problems here project
control tools. We also address stakeholder commitment
issues. If time permits, another team exercise addresses
the planning/implementation interface.
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IV. |
Implementing the
Plan |
Implementing: PDCA
Project Control
Implementation Problems
Project Execution Exercise |
| We
use a "hands-on" construction project as a capstone
exercise. Its tangible nature makes it suitable for any
group. |
V. |
Project
Simulation |
Applying All the Tools
Action Planning |
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VI. |
Appendices and
Bibliography |
Appendix One: Project Success
Appendix Two: Project Conflict
Bibliography
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Available in one and two
day in-house versions. Tailoring and customizing is available.
