Project Management: A Team Approach for Accountability & Results
Have you ever been involved in a project where the goals were unclear or impossible, the specs kept changing, or resources were given then taken away? Much of what affects a project cannot be helped, but there are many obstacles to productivity and success that can be prevented, anticipated, or eliminated.
"Everybody knows" you're supposed to communicate when working as part of a team, and "everybody knows" what happens when we make assumptions and don't take the time to check them out with others. Everybody also knows how much poor communication can cost in time, resources, customer satisfaction and team morale. But knowing all this doesn't always ensure that people do communicate or check out assumptions, or even that they have the skills and framework within which to do so.
Using a mix of presentation, group interaction, experiential exercises, and real-world application to your own projects, this powerful 2-day course gives you and your team the common framework, skills, methodology, and language to generate the accountability and superior results you know are possible. It gives you access to real data, not just opinions or "gut feelings," that you can use in your interactions with project sponsors and customers to negotiate and set expectations for achievable results.
Course Objectives
- Establish a common language and set of processes that can be applied to all your projects
- Gain a better understanding of the major factors that impact projects, and learn how to more successfully manage your projects
- Project Team Dynamics: the people side of project management
- Project Processes: the methods and tools that make a difference in achieving project objectives
- Apply the principles of project management to a real project.
- Understand how to use the course workbook and other materials as a reference for your projects.
This class awards participants 13.5 PMI PDUs.
Key Topics
Day 1: Define and Organize the Project
- Introduction - Project Team Simulation Exercise
- Define and Organize the Project
- Project Initiation and Team Definition
- Project Objective and Priority Matrix
- Project Team Planning Meeting
- Project Infrastructure Checklist
- Validation Meeting with Sponsor
Day 2: Plan and Manage the Project
Plan the Project
- Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
- Dependency Diagram and Critical Path Method (CPM)
- Optimization Plans
- Risk Analysis and Management Plans
- Validation Meeting with Sponsor
Manage Progress to Plan
- Collect Status Information
- Identify and Analyze Variances
- Reports on Progress to Plan
- Close Out the Project
- Project Retrospective and Team Meeting
Instructors
PATRICK NEAL has a passion for helping people and organizations reduce costs, improve productivity, and shorten time-to-market by developing organizational and individual competence in project management. He has worked with more than 200 organizations including IBM, AT&T, Intel, Hewlett-Packard, Agilent Technologies, and PG&E. More than 10,000 project managers have attended his training classes.
Patrick was a member of the Hewlett-Packard Project Management Initiative which was credited by an industry study with developing the best high-technology approach to project management. He founded the Project Management Office at Agilent Technologies.
Patrick has a doctorate in Organizational Communication and is certified by the Project Management Institute as a Project Management Professional (PMP).
9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Integrated Device Technology, Inc.
Yale Conference Room
6024 Silver Creek Valley Road
San Jose, CA
Onsite Delivery
Contact: info@effectivetraining.com
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