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FastEDUCATION™ Seminar

Seminar: Monitoring, Tracking, and Project/Phase Closure

Duration: 3 hours

Expected Audience:  Targeted for project leaders, this session covers project tracking and monitoring techniques, the need for proper phase and project closure, and how to perform a post performance analysis for lessons learned.

Objectives:

  • Understand why closure is important and needed
  • Know how to perform a Post Performance Analysis (PPA)
  • Review available options for publication of Lessons Learned

Format:    Presentation / discussion in groups of 10-20.

Outline:

  • Introduction
    • Outline review
    • Materials Tour
    • Participant's experiences with project progress tracking and PPA's
  • Monitoring and Tracking Techniques
    • MBWA
    • ROI updates
    • Earned Value Management
    • Effects on virtual teams
  • Basics of Closure
    • Importance of Closure
    • Where and how used
    • Relation to Performance Excellence
  • Post Performance Analysis
    • Framework for analysis
    • What to collect
    • Running the PPA meeting
    • How to prepare the PPA report
  • Summary & Wrap-up

Seminar Materials:

  • Presentation matter
    • Seminar notebook
    • Links to detail forms and help sites

Also, softcopy versions of the templates and forms supplied with the seminar:

  • PPA General Questions (.doc)
  • PPA Report Template (.doc)
  • Sample PPA Survey Document for Software Projects (.rtf)
  • Sample Software PPA Survey Summary (.xls)