Project management foundations
Two-day training along the course of a project: from the brief through goals and structure to milestones and roles.
Many people steer projects alongside their specialist role without ever having learned how a project is set up. This training walks through the whole course of a project once, on an example of your own.
The second day opens with a tower build in small groups. What happens there supplies the material for the question of what project leadership actually does while everyone else is building.
Day 1: brief and goals
- What a project is: project against day-to-day business
- Initial analysis: reason, people involved, conditions
- Setting goals: goals you can check rather than headlines
- Project brief: the assignment on one page
Day 2: structure and steering
- Tower build: collaboration under time pressure, with review
- Work breakdown structure: cutting the initiative into packages
- Activity list: from package to task
- Phases and milestones: making the course plannable
- RACI: who does, who decides, who is consulted, who is informed
- The role of project leadership: from the review of the tower build
What you take away
- A project brief for your own initiative
- Goals that let you measure progress
- A work breakdown structure and an activity list
- Clarity about roles and decision paths in the project
- A picture of what project leadership means day to day
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