FastEDUCATION™ Seminar
Seminar: Project Management Framework
Duration: 3 hours
Expected Audience: Targeted for project sponsors, project leaders and
team performers, this session introduces terminology, presents the PM
methodology framework, and sets the stage for the other sessions for novices to
project management.
Objectives:
- Lay groundwork for other sessions: Why? What?
- Define common terminology: PM? Project? Program? Phase? Etc.
- Present the PM methodology framework: How & how much to use
when
- Identify resources for project structuring and implementation
- Define and Plan a sample project
Format: Presentation / discussion in groups of 10-20.
Outline:
- Introduction
- Purpose of the FastEDUCATION Seminars
- Outline of PM Framework Seminar
- Rationale
- Why Do This?
- Project problems?
- Organizational throughput
- Linkage to PE, quality
- Project - operations relationships
- What's In It for Me?
- Career Paths
- What Do I Have To Do?
- PM Fundamentals
- What's a Project? Program? Stage? Phase?
Task? Activity?
- What's Project Management?
- PM Methodology
- Triple Constraint
- Portfolio Management
- A 5-phase model
- Selection Phase
- Definition Phase
- Planning Phase
- Execution Phase
- Closure Phase
- Organization Portfolio Management
- Project Aids
- Intranet
- Communications
- Local Mentors
- Tools
- Summary & Wrap-up
Seminar Materials:
- Presentation matter
- Seminar notebook
- Supporting resources
- Further background reading/learning
- Project Management Institute
(PMI): http://www.pmi.org
- Austin PMI Chapter: http://www.austinpmi.org/
