FastEDUCATION™ Seminar
Seminar: Initiation & Planning
Duration: 3 hours
Expected
Audience: Targeted for project
leaders, this session describes how to perform the tasks needed for
the Concept & Definition, and the Planning phases of a project. It has similar content to a project FastSTART,
but will focus on ROI calculation, the charter, and scope.
Pre-Requisites: At a minimum, attendees should have completed:
- Introductory FastEDUCATION Seminars
Objectives:
- Understand how to initiate a project in the organization
- Introduce and quick-tour the tools available for project planning
- Present the project initiation process and associated documents
- Know how to create a clean, crisp project charter and scope
- Demonstrate top-down planning and initial estimation methods
- Understand how to create a project plan
- Introduce organizational planning and stakeholder management
- Know how to perform an initial risk assessment
Format: Presentation / discussion in groups of 10-20.
Outline:
- Introduction
- Outline review
- Materials Tour
- Participant's experiences
- Fast Start Introduction
- Life cycle review
- Support Tools Introduction
- MS Project
- Project register
- Review Business Case
- Project Initiation Document
- Project charter
- PMP Overview
- Development of the PMP
- Demonstration
- Scope Statement
- Scope Overview
- Developing the Scope
- Demonstration
- Preparing the Project Organization Chart
- Project Organization Overview
- Complete the Organizational Chart
- Demonstration
- Stakeholder Management
- Stakeholders Overview
- Complete Stakeholders Management Document
- Demonstration
- Top-Down Scheduling
- Initial Schedule Overview
- Preparing the Initial WBS with Key Phases
- Preparing the Initial Schedule
- Populating the Project Register
- Risk Planning
- Risk Management Overview
- Develop the Initial Risk Log
- Demonstration
- Trade-Off Analysis
- Flexibility Matrix Overview
- Complete the Flexibility Matrix
- Demonstration
- Summary & Wrap-up
Seminar Materials:
- Presentation matter
- Seminar notebook
- Links to detail forms and help sites
