Effective Project Management Process
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Day 1 Agenda
• Introductions
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Module 1: Project Management Concepts
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Break
• Module 2: Planning Basics
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Module 3: Project Objectives: Scope, Purpose and Strategy (start)
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Lunch
• Module 3: Project Objectives: Scope, Purpose and Strategy (finish)
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Module 4: Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
• Break
• Module 5: Estimating
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Module 6: Networking and Scheduling
• Break
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Module 7: Overview of a Project Planning Workshop (PPW)
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Summary and Assignments

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Day 2 Agenda
Introduction and First Day Review
• Your Priorities, Energy and Time
• Scope Statement Samples/Review
Break
• Module 8: Monitoring and Control of Projects
Lunch
• Module 9: Risk Management
Break
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Module 10: Project Communications
• Module 11: Change Control
• Module 12: Project Closure
Break
• Module 13 – Working with People
Summary and Actions

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Project
• A project consists of a series of activities and tasks that:
– objective
– end dates
– Consumes resources (e.g., Money, people, equipment)
– resource
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Unique

Concept
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High Level “Map” of Project
Management
Plan
Monitor &
Control
Execute Closure

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Project Management’s Triple
Constraints
Schedule
Time
Customer
Satisfaction
Cost
Resources
Performance
Scope

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Project Management Vocabulary
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Scope and strategy statements
• Work breakdown structure (WBS), deliverables and tasks
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Duration estimate
• Network definition
• Budgets and reserves
• Critical path
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Risk Plan
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Communications Plan

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Key Stakeholder
• Stakeholder is Affected by the project – team, functional managers, customers, …
• Key Stakeholder is the one or few that really determine success.
• Three Questions
As you look back on this project, how will you determine success?
Anything Else?
Their Priorities?

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Scope Statement Example
Design, build, and test a single passenger human powered vehicle which will allow the fastest sustained speed by January 1, 2012 for a development budget of $4.4 million. It can be carried by 1 person and will not rust.

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Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
• The WBS organizes and segments the project’s
• The WBS can be a good foundation for:
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Project and technical planning
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Cost estimation and budget formulation
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Schedule definition
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Progress reporting and problem analysis
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A well structured plan is easier to complete

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