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)
