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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

 

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