Workshop: Project Management Overview

Duration: Four Hours

Description: This short workshop presents a basic project management framework and team roles and responsibilities, and introduces key management tools that project managers and team leads can use on all projects, regardless of size or business area.

Audience: Project managers, project team leads, and project core team members who want an introduction to basic project management tools for use on small to medium sized projects.

Workshop Topics:

1. Project Management Framework

1. What is a project? How does it differ from operational processes?
2. What is project management? How does it differ from management? What are the goals of project management?
3. Project management phases and deliverables checklist
4. Project team roles and responsibilities

2. Initiating a Project

1. Defining the Project Objective and Triple Constraint trade-off
2. Creating a Project Charter
3. Creating a Communication Plan

3. Planning the Project

1. Creating a Work Breakdown Structure
2. Initial scheduling using task dependencies
3. Resource loading
4. Identifying and assessing risks

4. Executing and Controlling the Project

1. Developing teamwork
2. Collecting progress information & assessing progress
3. Effective status meetings
4. Status Reports

5. Closing Out the Project

1. Closing out the project
2. Collecting the lessons learned
3. Archiving the project file