Project Management for Non-Project Managers
Two days of training (15 PDUs)
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Call them “Accidental project managers,” “Incidental PMs” or “Unofficial project managers.”
They are the staff and management that are running over half your projects — important projects that need to be delivered successfully.
This Versatile Company training course provides these leaders practical, proven tools of project management, scaled to fit their needs.
Practical Project Management Training
This is the hands-on class that makes project management easy to learn and apply to your projects!
- Hands-on, workshop-driven course design lets you and your team learn by doing.
- The interactive format makes the class fun and engaging.
- Includes a detailed course manual for in-class use and future reference.
- BONUS: Free access to our eLearning package that reinforces key concepts.
Learn the Art and the Science of project management.
Anyone in a project management role is a leader of all the stakeholders engaged in the project: your team, customer, management, and so many more.
- Establish clear goals for all stakeholders.
- Build a plan that has clear responsibilities and can be used to measure progress.
- Communicate effectively to influence your team, management, customers, and affected stakeholders.
- Control scope to maintain focus and productivity.
- Build management support for your project!
Project Planning Workshop
Participants plan one of their own projects in class. It’s the best way for individuals to learn the concepts faster and to transfer the learning to their job.
Workshop components are embedded in the course — each lecture topic is immediately followed by a relevant workshop. For example, after the scheduling lecture, teams will create their own project schedule.
Who Should Attend?
This course is particularly appropriate for leaders of part-time, internal business projects – thus the moniker “project management for non-project managers.” This includes:
- “Accidental project managers” for whom leading projects is just one more job to juggle.
- Great team members that want to be team and project leaders.
- Senior staff members tasked with leading cross-functional corporate initiatives.
Course Objectives
Upon completion of this course the student will be able to:
Identify five project success factors that apply to every project.
Describe the cost, schedule, and scope constraints and tradeoffs for their projects.
Develop a partnership
with a project sponsor.
Develop a realistic project schedule that relies on team members who are less than fully assigned to the project.
Articulate the business benefit of their current project.
Understand the relationship between the science of project management and the art of leadership.
Course Outline
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- Project Success Factors
- What is Project Management?
- A Successful Project Delivers Value
- Project Life Cycle and Product Life Cycle
- Identify Project Stakeholders
- Assign the Sponsor and Project Manager
- Answer the Top Five Definition Questions
- The Purpose of Planning
- Break the Project into Manageable Units of Work
- Network Diagrams Help Visualize the Sequence of Events
- Task Estimating Guidelines
- Establish a Realistic Schedule with a Part-Time Team
- Stakeholder Engagement
- Plan Communication
- Change Management
- Project Team Kickoff
- Monitor Schedule, Risks, and Issues
- Project Manager Skills
- Art Based on Science
Project Management Tips
Learning to Manage Intangible Projects
The project management discipline was created for tangible products – bridges, buildings, and nuclear powered warships. The current growth of project management is in intangible products: organizational redesign, recruiting strategies, and compensation plans for a few examples.
At Versatile, we’ve delivered project management training to construction firms and public school administrators. Our current growth audience is Human Resource professionals. So how do we help these knowledge workers bridge the gap between tangible and intangible products?
When an HR team recently attended our project management training in Seattle, they brought their projects with them. We used their projects in class, breaking down their end goal into major steps, then into specific tasks.
Every introductory project management class should teach you to clarify the tangible outcome of every task, even if that outcome is a recommendation or decision.
Thanks to Mark Mullaly, for posting on ProjectManagement.com which got us thinking about this.
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