Course Description
Project Management for Team Members – 2 Days
Understanding best practice processes is critical when working with a team to achieve project success but acquiring good people skills is also imperative if project and organizational goals are to be realized. This two day workshop provides participants with a thorough working knowledge of people skills and project management processes that can be immediately applied to any group project in the working world. Students leave this workshop with a proper
balance of the skills needed to work effectively with others toward a common goal.

Features
• Our facilitators bring real-world experience to every workshop.
• You will be led, not lectured, through a hands-on
case study.
• As a team, you will work through a case study where you plan a project utilizing practical skills offered in the workshop.
• You will be given the necessary tools to take a new project from planning through execution and control to closing.

Discover How To
• Develop a project plan from formulation to implementation and present effectively to management.
• Estimate and schedule project tasks.
• Build a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) and a Network Diagram.
• Improve your project communication skills.
• Learn good meeting skills—when to have and not to have, how to facilitate and what an agenda and meeting minutes should include.
• Explore different behavior styles and learn how they impact the success of your project and how you can use different behaviors to improve team interaction.

Outline Summary
An Overview of Project Management
• The characteristics of a project.
• Project management processes.
• Project success and failure.
• Critical success factors and components.
• The effective project manager — skills and characteristics.
• Roles and responsibilities.
• The time, cost, and scope target.

The People Side of Project Management
• Understanding people.
• Learn the use style models.
• Flexing your style.
• Understanding differences.
• Communicating.

Planning the Project
• Why plan?
• The components of the plan.
• Introduction to the case study.
• The control plans.
• The functions of a good project plan.
• Scope definition

Work Breakdown Structure
(Work Plans)
• Defining the work to be done.
• Creating the WBS — demonstration of technique.
• The WBS task and the work package.
• Methods of subdivision.
• Uses of the WBS.

Estimating
• Estimating accuracy.
• Estimating concepts and methods.
• Task-based estimation.

Scheduling
• Schedule concepts and methods.
• Network diagrams.
• Precedence logic.
• Estimate duration.
• Gantt Charts.
• Evaluation risk.
• Risk management.
• Identification, assessment, quantification and contingency planning.
• Risk consequences and contingencies.
• Planning for risk.

Project Control
• Measurement, evaluation, and quality control.
• Prerequisites to effective control.
• Key indicators.
• Change management and control.
• Performance reporting.
• Progress reporting.
• Issue tracking.
• Effective project management meetings—facilitating, agendas and meeting notes.
• Updating executives
• Role play.

Project Completion
• Management of project completion.
• Post implementation.
• Did you succeed? How do you know?

Summary and Conclusion
• Review of the primary components of the workshop
• Key issues
• Project Management Tools
• Final thoughts