Overview:

Session 1: Course Overview

•  Learning Objectives
•  Pre-Assignment
•  Why a Project?
•  How Does This Fit Into the Course?
•  Applying the Learning
•  Pre-Course Assessment

 Session 2: What is a Project?

•  What is a Project?
•  Definitions of a Project

 Session 3: Project Management Basics

•  What is Project Management?
•  What is Project Management?

 Session 4: Pre-Assignment Review

•  Eight Project Categories

 Session 5: How Can Projects Help Me?

•  The Benefits of Projects
•  Case Study: Mary Marvelous

 Session 6: A Project’s Life Cycle

•  The Life Cycle
•  Phase One
•  Phase Two
•  Phase Three
•  Phase Four
•  Milestones
•  Why Do Projects Fail?
•  Overview of Success Factors
•  Three Ways to End a Project

 Session 7: Selling a Project

•  Tom Peters
•  Bringing Ideas Forward
•  Selling Your Project
•  The Priority Matrix
•  Using the Matrix
•  Priority Quadrants
•  Priority Quadrants

 Session 8: Preparing Your Project

•  Things to Consider
•  Things to Consider

 Session 9: Preparing Your Project

•  A Project Manager’s Skills
•  To Be Completed By Proposer
•  To Be Completed By Proposer’s Manager
•  Bring the Team Together
•  Key Skills

 Session 10: Project Goals

•  Goals with SPIRIT!
•  Project Goals
•  Making Connections

 Session 11: Laying Out the Project

•  The Statement of Work
•  Defined Purpose
•  Project Deliverables
•  To Be Completed By Proposer’s Manager
•  Goals and Objectives
•  SWOT
•  Cost and Schedule Estimates
•  List of Stakeholders
•  Authority Levels
•  Assumptions and Agreements
•  The Communication Plan
•  Individual SOW
•  Individual SOW
•  Individual SOW
•  Project Planning Worksheet
•  Time Management
•  Cost Controls
•  Results Expected
•  Approvals
•  Writing Reports
•  Four Stages in Report Writing
•  Basic Formats
•  Basic Formats

 Session 12: Project Risks

•  Risk Tolerance Exercise
•  About Risks
•  Reducing Risks
•  Sources of Risk
•  Constraints

 Session 13: Contingency Planning

•  Contingency Planning
•  Components of a Contingency Plan

 Session 14: What Really Needs To Be Done?

•  Beginning to Plan
•  Preparing a Basic Schedule
•  Estimating Time
•  Estimating Time Exercise
•  Estimating Time Exercise
•  Float Time
•  Scheduling Checklist
•  Activity Scheduling
•  Scheduling My Project

 Session 15: The Work Breakdown Structure

•  The Work Breakdown Structure
•  Sample WBS

 Session 16: Planning Tools

•  Two Basic Tools
•  Milestone Charts
•  PERT
•  PERT Diagrams
•  Along the Critical Path
•  Gantt Charts
•  Gantt Charts
•  The Network Diagram
•  Revealing Workflow
•  Five Steps to Create a Network Diagram
•  More About Network Diagrams
•  More About Network Diagrams
•  Network Diagrams Conclusion
•  The Flow Chart

 Session 17: Budgets

•  Component Costs
•  Budget Methods
•  Making Connections
•  Costs and Time
•  Budget Controls

 Session 18: Teamwork

•  Why is Teamwork Important?
•  Building a Winning Team
•  Tips for Building a Winning Team

 Session 19: Developing Teams

•  Four Issues to Address with Project Teams
•  Four Issues to Address with Project Teams
•  Checklist for Success
•  Team Development
•  Forming
•  Storming
•  Norming
•  Performing
•  Adjourning

 Session 20: Teamwork

•  Introduction
•  Introduction
•  Individual Action Steps

 Session 21: Communication Tips

•  Communicating as Project Manager

 Session 22: Closing Out a Project

•  Closing Smoothly
•  Closing Smoothly

 Session 23: Team Meetings

•  Coordinating Team Meetings
•  During the Meeting
•  Effective Meeting Management
•  Making Committees Work
•  Assigning Work
•  Assigning Work

 Session 24: Presentation Primer

•  Project Management Presentation
•  Presentation Strategies
•  Speaking with Confidence

 Session 25: Project Presentations

•  Preparation Time
•  Evaluation Worksheet

 Session 26: A Personal Action Plan

•  Starting Point
•  Where I Want to Go
•  How I Will Get There
•  Summary

  Post-Course Assessment

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