The demands on project management are higher than ever and to succeed you must innovate. But who says you have to invent new tricks, innovate by going back to the basics. In this interactive session Jason will share with you five real-world project management tools drawn from practical experience managing complex projects for large enterprises such as Universal, Sony and the U. S. Navy.
Lesson 1: Executive Communication & Status matters
· 3 types of Communication – Starting with never ask how to perform your job
· Executive Status – building credibility by leveraging the quality not quantity of every executive interaction
· The 3B’s rule
Lesson 2: Building an effective Work Plan – Forecasting and Communication
· Never turn your back on the rich dialogue develop during the Charter exercise
· Work Plan Structure – Keeping it simple, not emotional
· Lead, don’t confuse: Gathering and communicating status directly for Scope and Objectives
Lesson 3: The purpose of identifying Risks during planning
· Refresh on the definition of Risks and Constraints
· Why there is nothing wrong with Constraints
· Risks are not scary
· Now what? How to rock them once you have identified the risks and mitigations
Lesson 4: Identifying, prioritizing and coming up with appropriate responses to Issues
· What’s the “Issue”? - Anything that impacts planned work
· Every issue has a degree of Risk – How to accurately identify “How much”
· Some proven work plan rules required to identify the degree of Risk
· CPI Date – Why wait until the critical path is breached?
Lesson 5: Project Health – How to successfully leverage it as a tool
· Why Health isn’t scary or meant to create urgency
· Why Health must be objective to be meaningful
· How Health starts with the task, extends to the issue and rolls up to the project
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