Course objective

• Become familiar with the planning activities required for successful team projects.
• Understand key aspects of executing a team project.
• Learn key ways to successfully make the transition from your former job to a project management position.
• Know how to apply cost, schedule, and performance when planning and managing team projects.
• Be able to construct different types of project teams.

Course Outline

• Introduction and Review of Participant Project Experiences
• Establishing the Relationships among Project Sponsors
•  Project Managers and Task Leaders
• defining project targets
• Criteria for manageable objectives
•  Yardsticks to measure project projects
•  Class exercise in creating manageable objectives.
• Team Structure Models
• The purpose of project teams
• The variable role of the project manager in three project models
•  Purpose and development of core teams
•  Creating team support structures.
• Developing the Project Plan
• Role of the project leader-including measurable milestones task assignment vs. delegation
• Class exercise in project plan development.
• The Project Plan Review Cycle-buy-in and ownership
• The Four Key Reports – agendas – minutes - status reports - corrective actions.
• Gates reporting progress; promotion to the next stage - class exercise in reviewing project gates.
• Project Conclusion and the Exit Report
• What was delivered recommendations for improvements - items to avoid; individual vs. organizational learning