Course : Occasional project manager

Occasional project manager






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  2d - 14h00
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Teaching objectives
At the end of the training, the participant will be able to:
Assuming the role of project manager
Organizing and monitoring the project's progress
Communicating in a non-hierarchical setting
Managing your time: Regular activity vs. project management
Managing your time: Regular activity vs. project management

Practical details
Hands-on exercises, toolbox, and scenarios.
Teaching methods
Active and participatory instructional methods. Alternating theory and practice, and how it applies to the participants’ context and experience

Course schedule

1
What is a project?

  • What a project is and is not.
  • When should you go into project mode?
  • The goals and restrictions of a project.
Hands-on work
Exchanging experiences and past difficulties.

2
Defining the scope of your task

  • Delimiting your responsibility and contribution: The mission letter.
  • Identifying the requesters, goals, and challenges: The project outline.
  • Delimiting the project's scope of action.
  • Getting managerial bodies involved: Steering committee.
Case study
Creating your mission letter and framework document. Presenting it to the steering committee.

3
Defining the need

  • Clearing up confusion between needs and solutions.
  • Expressing needs: The specifications.
  • Making decisions within limits of time or cost.
  • Prioritizing needs: Fundamental, important, and desirable functions.
Role-playing
Expressing and formalizing a need.

4
Constructing the project roadmap

  • Inventorying tasks, how to limit omissions.
  • Getting future stakeholders involved, relying on their expertise.
  • Defining levels of responsibilities: The RACI matrix.
  • Identifying possible risks: Proposing action plans.
  • Constructing schedule and budget scenarios to help decision-makers decide.
Case study
Create two schedule/budget scenarios.

5
Controlling the project's progress

  • Getting contributors involved and motivated.
  • Detect deviations and difficulties early enough to react.
  • Managing the project team outside of normal reporting relationships (matrix mode).
  • Monitoring suppliers.
  • Organizing and leading a monitoring meeting with the project team: Key progress indicators.
  • Crafting and presenting the monitoring dashboard to decision-makers.
Role-playing
What corrective scenarios should take place after a deviation?

6
Traps to avoid

  • Common project pitfalls.
  • Ten classic pitfalls to watch out for.
  • Best practices: The art of good project management.