Accelerating Project Start-up


The definitive workshop for ensuring that your project gets off to the right start

 

Forest by Jeff Langevin
Getting a project set-up, staff engaged and running is challenging. Why is it challenging? New people are joining the team, they need to figure-out how to work together; space, facilities and services have to be arranged. How does SoftPMO help? We get you focused early in the project on documenting ‘how the project gets managed’, and then engage the team to use the new processes.

At the completion of the Accelerating Project Start-up workshop, participants know how to start-up projects and have access to tools for getting the job done.


Note: The *Accelerating Project Start-up workshop includes 1 year online access to the SoftPMO Project Management Toolkit. When used in tandem with the toolkit, this workshop helps to ensure the successful start-up of every project.

Take this workshop if you are...
  • Ready to build the team needed to start-up and mobilize the project
  • Prepared to create project management plans for areas like communications, change, risk, finance, and procurement
  • About to get people together to manage the project and get it operational
  • Working to secure funding and resources needed to startup the project and get it mobilized

You will learn…  
  • How to hold a project mobilization meeting and engage key project team members
  • When to commit staff and other resources to achieve mobilization and staffing objectives
  • How to get agreement on project plans to use and priorities for development
  • What it takes to modify project plan templates and shape them-up for use
  • How to enable key operational processes for the project and motivating project team members to use them
  • When and how to implement regular and predictable progress measures and reporting
  • About handling project deliverables and work products
  • How to run a Project mobilization workshop

The workshop outline...
  • Accelerating Project Start-up...
  • Introduction to the workshop and guidance about using the SoftPMO Project Toolkit
  • Understanding, defining and scaling Project start-up activities
  • Implementing Project start-up
  • Create the Start-up activity list
  • Develop Project plans
  • Organization, team roles, project planning, commitment, execution and delivery
  • Progress reviews, updates, status reporting, communications, and quality control
  • Dealing with exceptions: enable issue, action, change and risk tracking systems

This workshop contains…
  • The Project Start-up Guide
  • An Example Project Start-up Plan
  • The Project Management Toolkit*
  • Project Management Guidebook
  • Project Management Model
  • 18 Basic Project Templates
  • 26 Standard Project Templates
  • Example, Samples and Artifacts

*Includes access to the Toolkit for 1 year