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View Outline and Purchase: How to Prevent Failed and Troubled Projects View Outline and Purchase: View Testimonials and Purchase: Digital Vault View Outline and Purchase: How to Prevent Failed and Troubled Projects For $49.99, download this 55 page, 0.72 MB presentation in Acrobat PDF file format. This checklist has been successfully used for a broad range of projects and programs including: · e-Commerce · · Business process re-engineering · Organizational Development The purpose of this presentation is to provide a problems avoidance checklist to be reviewed: · When you are planning a project … · When you are reviewing your project approach with your Sponsor, Steering Committee, and Project Team … · Periodically throughout your project to Content includes: · Characteristics of failed vs. troubled projects · Why projects get troubled or fail · Root causes versus project life cycle · When do root causes take effect? · How do you prevent failed & troubled projects? · Root Causes · Using Ms Project to address root causes Why projects get troubled or fail! · Most failed and troubled projects fail for avoidable, simple reasons, even highly complex projects. · If attention is given up front, and on an on-going basis, to the root causes presented here, some projects may be deemed infeasible early on. · This is much better than finding out at the end, or towards the end of a project.
Back to Top View Outline and Purchase: For $49.99, download this 114 page presentation in Acrobat PDF file format. Also included are sample MS Project e-business implementation project files for use with exercises. The 1.8 MB ZIP file contains: · 2.1 MB Acrobat PDF file · Two approx. 300 KB MS Project Files This presentation and exercises are designed to give the Senior Executive an overview of key project management concepts and how to use MS Project to: · Enter tasks and resources · View the status of a project · Understand how baselines are used in MS Project · Assess the health of a project · Provide a basis for a meaningful business oriented dialogue with the Project Manager · Close Out a Project Additional detail slides have been provided in the Appendices for the Senior Executive who wishes to learn more about using MS Project. Once a Senior Executive has be introduced to the basic mechanics of structuring a project and entering task information, the real gold is then addressed in how to assess the health of a project. Very often a Senior Executive is told that a project is on-time, on-budget, and proceeding Aok, without any substantiation. This presentation guides the Senior Executive to reports in MS Project that easily provide insights into: · Adequacy of project plan/structure. · Project budget performance. · Project schedule performance. While the Senior Manager would not be expected to directly utilize MS Project to produce these reports, this presentation empowers the Senior Manager with the knowledge of what he/she can request from his/her project managers to provide proof of performance. This provides a basis for a meaningful business oriented dialogue with the Project Manager. This presentation has been used as a component of seminars on Project Management for Senior Executives. In addition, the appendices detail the steps a project manager would go through to set up a project in MS Project. The presentation contents are: · Part 1: Getting Presentation Convention Learning MS Project Open Sample Project File Gantt Chart Gantt Chart Exercises Kinds of Resources Resource Views Entering Tasks Dependency Relationships Student Exercise · Part 2: Tracking & Reporting Project Status Baselines versus Interim Plans Change Control Process Filtering Views Viewing the Critical Path Viewing Slack Task List with Predecessor/ Successor and Who Does What Reports Who Does What Report Task List with Predecessors/ Successors Use of MS Project Text Fields for Requirements Reference · Part 3: More Reports Use of Text Fields for Risks & Issues/Actions Gantt View Schedule View Calendar View Network Diagram View Cash Flow View Budget [Variance to Baseline] View Overbudget Resources View Tracking View Earned Value View Use of Adobe Acrobat · Part 4: Assessing Health of a Project Update your student project as a real project would be updated Use the various reports to assess the health of the project Your assessment of value of these reports for evaluating project for your company · Part 5: Closing Out a Project Project Closeout Activities Final Acceptance of Deliverables Close out all work orders & cost accounts to prevent additional charges to project cost centers Complete Team Member (including PM) evaluations Conduct Lesson Learned Meeting(s) Appendices · Appendix: Gantt Chart View Data Fields Timeline Chart Vertical & Horizontal Split Bars … with Bottom View/Pane Removing Data Columns Adding Data Columns WBS vs. TBS Changing the format of the WBS Field Sizing Rows & Columns · Appendix: New Project Calendar & Resources Getting your project ready to enter tasks: - Project Calendar - Input Personnel Resources Input Material Resources Input “Facility” Resources Automatic Calculation Manual Resource Leveling · Appendix: Working with Tasks Entering and Updating Tasks Outline Method for Entering Tasks Hiding & Showing Subtasks Recurring Tasks Applying Resources Turning on Links in the Gantt Chart Using Toolbar Icons to Link & Unlink Tasks Setting Dependency Relationships Working with Links on Either the Gantt Chart or the Network Diagram Generally Updating Task Information Updating Your Plan Task Information Dialogue Effort Driven vs. Duration Driven Tasks - What are these? - When do we use one vs. the other? - Switching between Effort Driven vs. Duration Driven Tasks Formatting Gantt Chart Bar Styles Formatting The Network Diagram Workgroups Messaging
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