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XIX TI-UPRM Workshop: Countdown – Project Management |
FACILITATOR: Lee Harper (click here for bio)
DATE:
PLACE: Cafeteria's Annex (in second floor of the Student Center)
OVERVIEW:
Countdown is a one-day program for project teams, designed to provide
*/a big picture Understanding of the essentials of project team
success./* Approximately 4 hours are spent in a Project Team
simulation, during which learners experience game-like fun while
wrestling with real-life challenges. Then, the next 2 to 3 hours are
comprised of Small Team and Connections exercises where learners
discuss, then connect what they learned in Countdown with their own
issues, project management tools, processes and challenges.
OBJECTIVES:
This course will enable the participant to:
* Define the five key processes of project management:
Initiating, Planning, Executing, Controlling and Closing.
* Explain the triple constraints of time, cost and requirements
that form the "Trade-off Triangle" of project management decision-making.
* Explain how a project kickoff meeting and project scope
statement are used to learn what project sponsors expect from the team.
* Explain a risk evaluation and contingency plan and the
importance of risk management.
* Explain the purpose and importance of the following project
management tools:
- Work Breakdown Structure
- Gantt Chart
- Responsibility Matrix
- Risk Profile
- Resource Allocation Grid
- Critical Path Diagram
- Project Control Reports to Sponsors
* Complete a resource constraints evaluation considering
available time, people, workspace and money, and explain the importance
of effective resource allocation.
* Explain effective team responses to project changes including
scope creep and changing expectations.
* Describe a project's critical path which determines the
earliest completion of the project.
* Describe effective team behaviors for managing and controlling a project
- communicating effectively, gaining and managing commitment, and
resolving conflict - and explain the use of these behaviors within the
team, within the organization, and outside the organization.
AGENDA:
8:00 AM | Registration & Wake-up coffee |
8:30 AM | Morning Session (1/2) |
10:15 AM | Break |
10:30 AM | Morning Session (2/2) |
12:00 M | Lunch |
1:00 PM | Afternoon Session (1/2) |
2:30 PM | Break |
2:45 PM | Afternoon Session (2/2) |
4:30 PM | Evaluation |
CONTACTS:
Dr. Manuel Jimenez* |
Dr. Gladys O. Docoudray |
Dr. Rogelio Palomera |
* Reservations
REMARKS:
- The workshop will count for CEP credit (8 hours)
- Reservations required due to limited number of seats
- Refreshments and lunch will be served
SPONSORS:
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