Managing Projects in a Time of Uncertainty
Now, more than ever, project team members working remotely need techniques, templates and tools to be effective and efficient. This course equips you and your team with project planning and monitoring methods that will keep everyone on track, despite distractions, and ensure project outcomes are high quality, on budget and delivered on time.
Be prepared to roll up your sleeves
In this engaging and highly interactive course, you’ll get up-to-speed on how to develop a communication plan to ensure communication with stakeholders and sponsors is clear, less stressful and more focused. You’ll also learn how to develop a risk-handling plan in advance of problem situations. Using this plan, you’ll be ready to quickly execute contingency plans, putting an end to sleepless nights. Bring your project information. You’ll use it to develop a real-world plan built around key elements, including an elevator speech. Your hard work during this course will pay off starting with your next project—whether you’re new to project management, managing team members more experienced than you or completing small projects in addition to your day-to-day technical duties.
What you’ll Learn:
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Identify the key elements of every successful project plan.
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Develop communication plans that ensure clear communication with stakeholders and sponsors.
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Design risk handling plans that help you identify and manage risks occurring in uncertain times.
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Organize and schedule productive and efficient meetings and work sessions, even on Zoom.
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Master the characteristics of effective project leaders.
Who Should Attend:
- Engineers tasked with completing small projects in addition to completing their normal technical duties.
- Project managers newly assigned to lead project teams.
- Engineers newly assigned to a project team where the other team members are more experienced.
Times displayed are in EST. For questions, please email academy@aiche.org.
Participants will need:
- Access to the WebEx platform
- Information for a project; we will work on the project during the training
- Small post it notes
- Scissors
- A large piece of paper about the size of a flip chart
Day One
8:30 – 10:00
- Introductions, Expectations and Check In
- Defining Project Management; the Project Management Institute
- Benefits of Project Management
10:00 – 10:15
- Break
10:15 – 12:00
- Introduction to the Project Management process groups and knowledge areas
- Activities and templates for the Initiating process group; defining stakeholders
- Developing charters
12:00 – 12:30
- Lunch Break
12:30 – 2:30
- Activities and templates for the Planning Process group; developing the Work Breakdown Structure
- Defining the elements of a project plan
2:30 – 2:45
- Afternoon Break
2:45 – 5:00
- Impacts of poor communication; developing a communications plan
- Guidelines for communicating with stakeholders
- Debrief Day One
Day Two
8:30 – 10:00
- Check In
- Identification of assumptions and constraints; identifying risks
- Identifying and managing risks
10:00 – 10:15
- Break
10:15 – 12:00
- Advanced risk management techniques
12:00 – 12:30
- Lunch Break
12:30 – 2:30
- Activities and templates for the Monitoring process group; developing schedules, status and financial reports
- Activities and templates for the Closeout process group; storing project and training documentation, compiling usable lessons learned
- Complete organizational process evaluation sheets
2:30 – 2:45
- Afternoon Break
2:45 – 5:00
- Meeting management
- Leadership styles
- Debrief and Evaluation
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