An introductory 4-hour crash seminar to project management. Targeted more towards functional middle managers in matrix organizations but on a longer time frame can be used for junior project managers as well.

1. Projects in our life

2. Project Management
Role – not a title
Project
Management
Application
or Industry
General
Management

3. Out first project

4. Balance the Trade-off
Time
Scope
Cost

5. Project Cycle
Charter
Plan
Lessons
Goal

6. Defining Stage
Why
• Goals
What
• Scope
• Skills
Who
• Team

7. Charter

8. Scope
Interviews
User observation
Brain storming
Role Playing
Questionnaires
Workshops
Use Cases
Prototyping
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9. Scope

10. Stakeholders
WHO?
Is paying for it
Is making profit of it
Is using it
Is with/against it
Influences it
Will be promoted
Will be punished

11. Stakeholders
Influence
Interest

12. Planning stage
“Man does not plan to fail, he
just fails to plan.”
Anonymous

13. Planning stage

14. Progressive Elaboration

15. Progressive Elaboration

16. Dangerous Assumptions
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcNrh8FL3vE

17. Planning Stage
Schedule
Work
Breakdown
Structure
Resources
Project Plan

18. WBS
(sample)
Building
a House
Building
Walls &
Roof
Plumbing
Garden
Driveway

19. Resources
Categories
People
Material
Attributes
Equipment
Facilities
Funding
Roles & Skills
Availability
Location
Cost

20. Project Finances

21. Project Schedule
Diagrams
 AOA
 AON
 Gant
 PERT
 GERT
 CPM
Tasks
 Dependability
 F-S / F-F / S-S / S-F
 Estimates: Tm, To, Tp
 Slack / Float / Buffer
 Lead / Lag
 Hammock

22. Risk Management
“Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the face.”
― Mike Tyson
Identification
Qualification
Response

23. PLANS
“I have always found that plans are useless
but planning is indispensable”.
Eisenhower
With Properly Prepared Plans, you can
achieve great results.
however
Planning is NECESSARY but not Sufficient.

24. Can we do it?

25. Doing, Monitoring &
Controlling
Doing
Monitoring

26. Managing Stakeholders
Heart
Head
Hand

27. Managing Stakeholders
Use your BRAIN
• Bridging : Using Personal Relations
• Rationalizing : Logic, Facts & Reasoning
• Asserting : Authority, Rules & Law
• Inspiring : Shared Vision, Mission
• Negotiating : Exchange, Trade-off, Tit-for-Tat

28. Managing Change
Acknowledge
Approve
Assess
Accept

29. Managing Issues

30. Problem Solving
• You have 4 seeds, plant them so they all have
equal distance from each other.

31. Progress Tracking
Past
What happened?
What was
supposed to
happen?
Present
What’s going on?
Issues?
Changes?
Future
What’s supposed to
happen?
Risks?
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32. Reviewing Stage
Who can take
the blame?

33. Reviewing Stage
Review  KPIs, Metrics, Objectives
Reflect  Lessons Learned
Report!

34. PMP - PMBOK

35. Prince II

36. IAPM

37. For More information
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