Practical Methods for Project Management

The following issues will be covered:  

• Fostering team participation
• Creating a team contract
• Creating a charter
• Defining the scope of the project
• Setting scope boundaries
• Breaking down the work
• Determining who should be on the team
• Development of a deliverables schedule
• Estimating staff effort & spending
• Risk Assessment
• Creating countermeasures to reduce risk
• Managing changes to the plan
• How to monitor project progress
• Effective use and design of project status meetings
• Writing a status report
• Managing an issues list
• Capturing lessons learned
• Assembling a project plan
• Writing a close out report