Essential Skills for Managing Projects -

Workshop Description - 2 or 3 days in length

This comprehensive course covers the broad range of skills needed to plan and manage projects of all types and sizes. Essential Skills for Managing Projects is ideal for project managers, subproject leaders, team members and project stakeholders. Experienced project managers as well as new project managers will benefit by learning through application of CORE PM (Collaborative, Organized, Results-Focused, Easy) methodology in an interactive case-study-based exercise:

Based on The Project Management Memory Jogger, a pocket guide for project teams.

Aligned with the internationally accepted standards outlined in A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide), Project Management Institute, Inc.

Course Objectives

In this course, participants learn a simple, powerful, collaborative method to organize, plan, and manage projects from beginning to end using proven techniques to efficiently and effectively define project plans and progress. Participants will:

Create a project charter
Define the scope of the project, project deliverables and acceptance criteria
Create a work breakdown structure (WBS) with clear accountability
Develop schedules: interdependent and milestones
Create a project budget & project effort estimate
Assess risk and develop responses to reduce risk in a fun, credible, and creative way
Manage project change to prevent scope creep, project progress and issue project status reports
Closeout the project

Table of Contents

Instruction Modules	Topics
Introduction	Overview and Key Terms Ground Rules	PM Process Overview
1. Initiation: Project Management Overview & The Charter	Project vs Operations Charter Roles, Responsibilities	Brainstorming Project Problems PM Process Overview
2. Planning: Working with the Team	Kickoff Meeting Parking Lot	Issues List
3. Planning: Project Scope	Scope Description SMART Acceptance Criteria Deliverables Table	Interim Deliverables Project Boundaries Analysis Work Breakdown Structure
4. Planning: Project Risk	Project Risk Definitions Project Risk Analysis - Scope, Schedule, Cost	Advanced Project Risk Analysis
5. Planning: Team Membership	Team Membership Analysis
6. Planning: Scheduling	Project Schedule Definitions Milestone Schedule Deliverables Schedule Schedule Risk Analysis	Contingency Quality Plan Scheduling Software
7. Planning: Effort & Cost	Effort Estimate Cost Estimate Procurement Plan Communication Plan Organizational Change Management	Project Change Management Assemble the Plan Project Management Plan / Leadership Summary Project Planning Checklist
8. Execution	Project Team Meetings Project Status Report	Meeting Evaluation Customer Sponsor Review Meeting
9. Closeout	Customer Sponsor Satisfaction & Feedback Survey	Lessons Learned Project Closeout Report Final Project Status Report
Worksheets	Project Worksheets

Who Should Attend

This workshop is designed for:

Project managers
Subproject leaders
Project team members
Project stakeholders

Essential Skills for Managing Projects includes a participant workbook and a copy of The Griffin Tate Group's best-selling book, The Project Management Memory Jogger™.