One

1: Project System

2: Leading People

3: Chartering

Ø       Describe the elements of LPM: TOC/critical chain, Lean, PMBOK, Six Sigma.

Ø       Explain the necessary elements of an effective project delivery system.

Ø       Identify project stakeholders and their needs. Focus on People, Product, Process…and then Project.

Ø       Develop a Business Case for a Project.

Ø       Specify the content of a Charter as a function of project variables; e.g. size, complexity, risk.

Ø       Draft a project Charter.

Ø       Develop effective Project  and Product solutions.

Syllabus.

Project Delivery Survey.

Q12 Survey.

Three cloud Excel.

ERF case

Charter

Project Problems.

The Goal video.

Evaporating Cloud.

Case introduction.

Stakeholder matrix.

Charter.

Two

4: Right Solution

5: Managing Variation

Ø       Apply Theory of Constraints project management: critical chain.

Ø       Relate critical chain to the overall project system developed by the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK).

Ø       Develop a single project critical chain plan.

Ø       Identify the single project buffers.

Ø       Identify the multi-project constraint.

Ø       Develop a multi-project constraint schedule (drum).

Charter Template.

Cloud breaker Excel.

Issue/action database.

Case: Business Case. Project dice game.

Alternatives

Blocks

Three

5. Managing Variation

6: Risk Management

Ø       Perform Project Risk Management.

Ø       Develop a Lean Project Plan, Including:

§         Project Assumptions.

§         Work Breakdown Structure (s): WBS

§         Scope Of Work, Including Scope Of Facilities And Scope Of Services.

§         Responsibility Assignment.

§         Work Packages.

§         Milestone Sequence Chart.

§         Network Diagrams.

Ø       Deploy tools and confidence that they can lead teams to model unique situations.

Ø       Demonstrate motivation to move to the next level of enterprise project modeling.

Network examples.

Decision cases.

Case: Variation.

          Decisions.

Play out CCPM networks.

Bead game

Buffers and buffer sizing.

CCPM+ schedule exercises.

Four

7: Project Plan

8: Executing

Ø       Manage project execution.

–         Task performance.

–         Management behavior.

–         Supportive processes:

•          Communication.

•          Project meetings & reporting.

•          Action items and issues.

•          Changes

Ø       Plan for transition and closure.

Ø       Lead an LPM implementation.

Project Plan Template.

Risk Template.

Buffer recovery cases.

Course feedback.

Case:  Assumptions.

WBS

MS sequence.

Network.

Network examples.

Behavior.

Pipelining.

Case: Risk Assessment.

Buffer Recovery.

Changes.