Consultant/Instructor:  Shanna Gauger, PMP
Project Management Jump start
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THE JUMP START EXPERIENCE

The production of a project scope statement, a schedule, and budget, for your project  are the objectives of the jump start experience.   Whether you choose to acquire instruction to develop these yourself, or you engage Shanna to develop them, the steps described below are collaborative and you should expect productive real work sessions, constructive dialogue regarding your
approach, and a higher probability of gaining the attention your project needs when you reconnect with your organization or project audiences. 


Who Can Benefit from Jump Start
  • Project managers or functional managers who lack uninterrupted  time to produce a scope, schedule, and  budget
  • Anyone taking on the  management of a project who is unfamiliar with scope, schedule and budget development
  • Organizations, or individuals who want to jump start their creative or entrepreneurial projects
  • Individuals wanting to shift to a career in project management

    Step 1                Crafting Your Scope Statement
  1. Present the Background and Objectives of  Your Project to Shanna and/or the Other Class Participants
  2. Overview of the Project Scope Statement Template and its Component Parts
  3. Identify Your Project’s Buckets of  Work (Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)) and their Interdependencies
  4. Write Paragraph Descriptions of WBS  Components  (Don't like to write?  Shanna can write this while you talk about it.)
    Step  2               Create Your Schedule     
  1. Discuss Microsoft Project's Essential Functions
  2. Translate your Work Breakdown Structure  into Activities and Tasks
  3. Activity and Task  Dependencies
  4. Assign  Resources
  5. Modifying your  Schedule
  6. Risk Mitigation Strategies
    Step  3                Develop Your Budget 
  1. Familiarization with a Budget  Template
  2. Develop the Budget
  3.  What if Modeling and Modifying your Budget
    Step  4                Presentations and Refreshers
  1. Dress Rehearse the Presentation of these Materials and Receive Feedback
  2. Refine your Materials for Distribution within your Organization
  3. Revisit Topics from Steps 1, 2 or 3 as Needed

Consultation

These steps can be bundled or unbundled, and scheduled to suit your individual or organizational needs.  

In facilitated sessions with you or multiple members of your organization, while the project is discussed, Shanna can write the scope statement, and/or develop the schedule and budget.  Groups and individuals who do not gravitate toward writing, or the computer, find this method very effective.

Instruction

Course attendees will leave the steps of this course  with draft  materials.   Course participants should be experienced 
with Microsoft Word and Excel, and should expect to learn essential  functions of Microsoft Project while developing their
project  schedule.   Participants may optionally  participate in a  short session on the Project Management Institute
(PMI)  during  the course to become familiar with PMI, the  project management  professional* (PMP) certification process,  the PMI
website,  and PMI Portland  area meeting and networking options.


Schedule Suggestions for the Steps you Need

Sequential 1/2 days
One 6 hour day 
One 8 hour day 
One on one hourly work







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