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