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Executive Overview: Managing the Small Project Environment^SM

Why This Course?
(1/2 Day)

Many of your staff members perform project-related work. Often they don't manage that work as a project -- just something that needs to be done by the end of the month (or by today!). This is typical of the small project environment in today's organization.

Small project work requires a unique set of traits: ability to react quickly, broader skills, and the ability to juggle multiple concurrent "priority ones". This Manager's Overview identifies the issues facing the manager of staff who specialize in the "need it yesterday" small projects. It describes use of The Small Project Guide, a customizable template approach to improving responsiveness, efficiency and quality.

Learning Objectives

Define small projects, and the unique issues facing them.
Discuss an approach to managing small projects that improves consistency, quality and responsiveness, while producing a documentation trail for each project.
Identify the minimum techniques needed for successful small project management, and the most important management information that you should receive from your staff.
Describe a prioritization process that keeps staff focused on the projects with greatest business benefit, and allows more efficient use of staff, while maximizing customer satisfaction.
Describe the role the effective manager plays in the small project environment.
Identify an action plan for maximizing the strengths of a more consistent small project approach.

Audience

This workshop is for first and second-level managers of small project staff. A small project typically requires two months of effort or less, staffed by one or more people with other high priority efforts. Customers of small projects can also benefit from this overview.

Course Outline

1. Issues of the Small Project Environment

Defining Small Projects
Issues of Small Project Management
Unique Traits of the Small Project Manager
Resolving Issues with the Small Project Guide

2. An Approach to Managing Small Projects

The Small Project Life Cycle
Improved Definition and Alternatives Analysis
Task List Templates for Small Projects
Keys to Estimating of Small Projects
Project Prioritization
Scheduling and Tracking Small Projects

3. The Manager's Role

Customer Involvement and Project Acceptance
Prioritization and Resource Allocation
Quality Assurance and the Most Often Omitted Deliverables
Monitoring and Reward Results in the Small Project Environment
Action Plan: Maximize Small Project Management Strengths
Summary

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