Day One: What it takes to become a Project Manager
- What traits do the best Project Managers have and how to develop these
- What should a project manager look for in developing an effective project team
Bootcamp Breakout 1: Develop your Project Team and undergo a Team Building Exercise
- Understanding the role of the project manager in business development
- Identifying the attitude of project stakeholders and how to manage them
Bootcamp Breakout 2: Introducing the Project and introducing the Customer
- Identify your Customer and understanding the different strategies in managing their expectation
- Identifying and setting project team responsibilities
Bootcamp Breakout 3: Present your team to the Customer Organisation
Day Two: Managing Multiple Projects
- Defining the keys to managing multiple projects and how to accomplish this
- How to identify and deal with difficult personality types on multiple projects
- How to deal and manage change when dealing with multiple project
- Understanding the steps in successfully delegating work on projects
Bootcamp Breakout 4: Setting up your project structure to reassure your customer on project delivery
- Defining the 10 critical elements of a good project management plan?
- Understanding the difference between planning for small versus large complex projects?
Bootcamp Breakout 5: Developing a Project Plan for your Project and Breaking the Project into parts which can be assigned to Team Members
Day Three: Developing and Controlling the Project Plans
- Understanding the 11 elements that make a good schedule … what are they and how to manage them
- Understanding the common pitfalls to avoid when making a project schedule
Bootcamp Breakout 6: Develop a schedule that your sponsor can understand
- How to identify and manage risk in any projects
- Understanding when and where project contracts need to be used and how they should be managed
Bootcamp Breakout 7: Present the risk back to your sponsor and understand financial implications
- Understand how to develop the project financial budget
- Understand what critical project elements that constantly need monitoring
Bootcamp Breakout 8: Setting up the project control system
Day Four: Managing Change
- Understand how to be proactive in managing change
- Understand what to do if the project is behind schedule or over budget
- What is the proper way to manage a customer when change requires extra budget or time
Bootcamp Breakout 9: Deal with the Change
- Understand the best way of interfacing with your stakeholders during meetings
Bootcamp Breakout 10: It is time to meet with the customer and tell them about the change
- Actions, Issues and Change … how to report on them
Bootcamp Breakout 11: Compile the Actions, Issues and Change
Day Five: Wrapping up the Project
- Understand the right way to complete a project
- Identify the best method of transitioning projects to the customer
- Understand how to make the best use of lesson learnt
- Understand how can to turn a complicated project into a major success
- How well should the project manager know the customer and understanding why it matters
- Understanding strategies on how project managers can improve the relationship with their customers
Bootcamp Breakout 12: It is time to Build a Bridge between you and the Customer - Can you do it and show how successful the project is?
