The roles that would benefit from this course:
- Performers owning a deliverable – An individual charged with leading a team to complete a project deliverable and gaining acceptance for it.
- Performers owning task work – An individual who is providing one or more activities on a deliverable being completed for a project.
The student will be provided with the following job aids and class materials:
- Student Guide
- Key Reference Materials: Project Process Overview Chart – A chart describing the key facilitations and deliverables on a project.
- Project Process Chart – A chart describing the processes within each project facilitation
- Project Roles & Responsibilities – A document describing project key roles and their key responsibilities
- Project Management Guides – A chart for specific facilitations Performers are engaged in that describes the inputs, processes steps, and outputs for each facilitation
- Project Process Step Guides – A chart for each step with a facilitation process that describes the objective, inputs, scope, and potential agenda for each project process step
- Glossary of Project Terms
Prior to the course, the student should have:
- Read the project role descriptions
- Reviewed the example project information
- Completed any pre-class exercises
- Been familiar with any standard work deliverables that their process owner team would normally produce on a project
Students should bring to class:
- A laptop capable of accessing the project management process and template documents
Purpose: To be able to efficiently plan, commit, and deliver needed deliverables on projects and to identify when corrections or changes are needed in a project plan.
Objective: Following this session students will be able to:
- Describe the project process
- Describe the roles of the Performer on a project
- Describe standard work
- Describe the difference between Business Requirements, Deliverables, and Tasks on a project.
- Demonstrate how to accept deliverable responsibility and commit to a schedule
- Demonstrate how to provide deliverable status
- Describe and participate in the project risk process
- Describe the project escalation process
- Describe and demonstrate the project change process
Employing these new skills will result in:
- Clearer identification of deliverables (work) on a project
- Better estimates of deliverables on projects
- Improved management of risky deliverables
- Clearer definition of responsibilities on a project
- Improved project communication
The course outline is as follows:
- Project process overview
- Initiate Process Group Summary – Describes the chartering process and the key elements.
- Plan Process Group
- Deliverables based planning including the key outputs of Business Requirements, Schedule, critical path, work assignments and risk register
- Task definition and development
- Execute Process Group
- The completion and monitoring of project deliverables, identification of project corrective and preventative actions and the development of a project change
- Close Process Group
- The discovery of a few good implementable ideas
- Course Recap
