Managing Single-Time Efforts Project Management in the Knowledge Age 26 PDUs/2.6 CEUs

One of the most significant challenges faced by organizations today: how to introduce new products and services to customers in a structured, organized manner. 

Managing Single-Time Efforts is a highly focused look at today’s modern project management across the organization emphasizing today’s more dominant single-time efforts.  This 3.5 day seminar is a step-by-step guide to launching a new project with a complete project charter to drive the initiative.  While other components of project management may require time to fully implement, the project charter quickly becomes a powerful new tool.  The course completes the discussion of project initiation by defining the components of the initial project plan.  This plan is based on the certified completion of well-defined intermediate and final deliverables.  It is also the basis for detailed planning. 

Learn to recognize the responsibilities and contributions required from each member of the project organization and evaluate the roles as the project moves through a predictable and repeatable project life-cycle.

Course Objectives
Participants will learn:

• The definition of modern project management in a repeatable project life-cycle.

• How to avoid the bias of "industrial age" project management in current environments.

• The roles and responsibilities of each member in the project organization throughout the project life-cycle.

• How to launch a new project and construct a project charger that will serve as the initial project agreement.

• How and when to modify the project charter to reflect project realities.

• How to construct a foundational project plan for detailed planning.

• The components of project execution and a process for project completion.

Who Should Attend
Members from across the total business organization will benefit, including:

• Large, multi-national companies as well as small, entrepreneurial firms.

• Companies involved in complex technology and engineering environments as well as service and sale companies.

• Project managers and team members

• Product planners and managers

• Operations managers and specialists

• Industrial and software engineers

• Technology specialists

• Strategic planners and senior managers

• Trainers

• Anyone with responsibility for identifying the initial business need for a project, approving the project scope and vision, selecting the team, providing resources, managing the team or using the deliverables.

Instructor
Chuck Tryon is a nationally respected educator and popular symposium speaker.  He founded Tryon and Associates in 1986 to provide seminar training and consulting on approaches to modern project management, knowledge management and business requirements. The strategies presented in Chuck’s seminars are used by thousands of professionals in hundreds of organizations across the United States, Europe and Canada.  His client list includes many top 100 companies.

Prior to launching Tryon and Associates, Chuck spent five years as a senior staff consultant and instructor with Yourdon, Inc. of New York.  Chuck also worked for Sun Oil Company as a project manager, systems analyst and software designer. A business administration graduate of the University of Tulsa, he is currently completing a Master of Science in Knowledge Management at the University of Oklahoma.  He also serves as the co-chair and moderator for the regional Knowledge and Project Management Symposium.

Prerequisites
There are no prerequisites for this session. 

Format and Materials
This seminar is conducted in an instructor-led format.  Attendees receive full set of presentation materials, as well as numerous articles, examples and templates.  Discussion agendas are also provided to use following the seminar, along with a comprehensive bibliography of reference material.

PMBOK Compatibility
This seminar is designed as a logical procedure for managing a project.  The majority of the topics discussed in the material relate directly to one or more knowledge areas of the Project Management Institute’s (PMI) Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK®).  While the course does not teach the PMBOK® specifically, PMI material is referenced and suggested as a resource to all attendees.

SEI/CMM Compatibility
This seminar is useful for organizations seeking Capability Maturity Model (CMM) Level 2 and Level 3 certification from the Software Engineering Institute (SEI).  This seminar specifically addresses the needs of project planning and project tracking identified by SEI for software development projects.