Project Management for Non-Project Managers 2018

Topics

• Specifying the project work to be done and establish the project`s timing and resource requirements
  • Naming key tasks
  • Develop the work breakdown structure
  • Special project situations
  • Making assumptions
  • Displaying the work breakdown structure
  • Long-term project planning
  • What to document
  • Categorizing project work
  • Reading and interpreting a network diagram
  • Purpose and function of the network diagram
  • Develop the initial schedule
  • Creating the network diagram
  • Gaming the schedule
  • Determine activity durations
  • Estimate the human resource requirement
  • Determine team member skills that are needed
  • Resolve resource overloads and conflicts
  • Meeting resource commitments
  • Developing the budget
  • Handling multiple projects
• Introduction to Project Management -An Overview
  • What is project management?
  • What is a project?
  • What is effective project management?
  • The project manager`s role
  • The triple constraint, collaboration and flexibility
  • The five stages of a project
  • Determine and specify the business need
  • Project management pitfalls
  • Determine your project audience, i.e. project stakeholders, initiator, and champion(s)
  • Identify the project expectations, resources, and budgets -project scope statement/project charter
  • Determine/craft project objectives
  • How to work and interact with your audience
  • What are the project`s constraints?
• Risk, the project team, project management and control
  • Identifying the risk factors
  • Risk factors and risks
  • Assessing and weighing risk
  • Risk types
  • Develop a risk mitigation strategy
  • Determine consequences
  • Organizational structures for managing projects
  • Develop your risk management plan
  • Team member roles and responsibilities
  • Define the key players and their roles
  • Authority versus responsibility
  • Assigning project tasks
  • Developing team operational strategies and procedures
  • The RACI Chart
  • Developing your team
  • Managing team activities
  • Working cross-culturally
  • Managing team and individual team member performance
  • Scope creep and how it is managed
  • Collaboration and flexibility -how are they executed and managed successfully
  • Work-effort tracking
  • Tracking and reporting progress
  • Communicating effectively -how to make it work
  • Managing the budget
  • When things go wrong -scheduling alternatives

Who should Attend

• Product Managers
• Marketing Associates
• Contract Managers
• Program Managers
• Project Managers