What do Project Managers Do?

1. Ensure costumer audience satisfaction

   • Emotional Intelligence is important

   • Communication is KEY to any project

2. Be a cheerleader

   • Help motivate & inspire your team

   • No one wants to do the dirty work and paper work, but it has to be done

3. Be the Moderator

   • Help keep things on track, filtered and systematic

   • Hold your team accountable

4. Be the "paper-pusher"

   • Keep people on track with their tasks

   • Documentation is important!

5. Be the Mother Hen/Father Rooster

   • It is common to hear PMs say they "babysit" as a job

   • This doesn't mean baby your team!

   • Instead, give them the reassurance, guidance and reward they're looking for.

   • Continue to keep your team on track.

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What Do These 10 Project Management Terms Mean?

1. Sponsor - Authority, funding, champion, promotion

2. Stakeholder - Anyone with a stake(affected by any decision) in the project.

3. Steering Committee - High level stakeholder, guidance, strategy, roadblock removal, general approval/feedback, etc.

4. Scope Statement - Describes the project. Boundaries set for what will and will not happen within the project.

5. Gold Plating - (not necessarily a good thing) extra features/flexions to product, project or service not included in the scope. Should be done by the team with no cost to the project, but careful this doesn't hurt the project flow in any detrimental way.

6. Scope Creep - Uncontrolled Changes

7. Charter - Document that kicks off the project. Includes objectives, scope statement, deliverables, risk assumptions, expectations, roles, etc

8. WBS - Work Breakdown Structure. How it works, Project deliverables (chronological/hierarchical order).

9. Action Plan - Work Plan/Schedule/Structure/Task Lists, Responsibilities, expectations & deadlines.

10. Risk Planning - Systematic approach to identifying failures.

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10 Steps

1. Project Goals & Deliverables

2. Scope & Mission Statements

3. Team Confirmation - Who do you need?

4. Project Assumptions & Risks

5. Project Timing / Estimated Deadlines

6. Project Cost - Budget

7. Kickoff Meeting

8. Project Tasks - Individual, Pairs, Groups

9. Project Plan Approval

10. Project Plan Execution

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5 Steps

1. Validate or Create a PROJECT SCOPE STATEMENT

2. Create a PROJECT CHARTER (Handbook)

3. Create a project DELIVERABLES list

4. Set up project support mechanisms (Google Drive, Workspaces, etc)

5. Schedule & Execute Kick-Off Meeting

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S.C.A.M.P.E.R

• Substitute - trial and error, brainstorm ways to make thing better/substitute one "good" item for a "great" item

• Combine - Combine two "okay" ideas to make a "great" idea

• Adapt - (Make Small Adjustment) Add to an existing product/item/idea to make it better for the current task/project/situation

• Modify - (Make Changes) Change a product/process/idea to better flow and efficiency

• Put to another use - Hand off/Use product/process/items for a different task/use

• Eliminate - Get rid of anything in the process/product/idea that isn't working for the project

• Reverse - Innovate by changing/reverse the process order

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Responsibilities

1. Motivate the team

2. Keep the team on track

3. Managing executives and their expectations

4. Managing project risks

5. Managing Budgets

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The Importance of Project Management

1. Enables Strategic Alignment

2. Increases Efficiency

3. Provides Exciting Opportunities

4. Ensures Focus & Direction

5. Ensures Proper Planning

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Top 5 Reasons Projects Fail

1. Dodging Conflict Resolution

2. Project Expectations are Vague/Non-Specific

3. Poor Communication (it's better to over communicate)

4. The non-Project Manager

5. Poor/No Risk Management

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