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Discovering Project Management: A Guide for Beginners
Session #1 - June 15
Pick a project to work on and find/join your breakout room
Welcome and introductions
What’s project management all about?
Project success
Step 1: Defining your Project
● The project sponsor
● Your project snapshot
Step 2: Organizing and planning
● The team
● Stakeholders
● Communications
Homework assignment: Create a project snapshot for a personal or work-related project
Session #2 - June 29
Review of the first session, debrief on homework, and questions
Other important considerations
● Assumptions, risks, dependencies
● Resources
Step 3: Executing the project work
● Activities and tasks and monitoring the work
● Managing Change
o Internal - A brief intro to change management
o External - adapting to uncertainty
Session #3 - July 13
Review of second session and questions
Project challenges
● Working with remote/hybrid teams - challenges, trends
● Team, stakeholders, budget, timeline, scope creep
Step 4: Closing out the project
Project management tools and resources
Wrap up and questions