Chapter 8: Full-Day Session - Project Management Jump-Start

What ‚ s in This Chapter?

• The design for a one-day workshop

• The purpose and objectives of the workshop

• Instructions for how to conduct the unit

• Program agenda

The full-day version of the training provides a brief but fairly extensive survey of the project management discipline. In an attempt to compress vital material into a single day ‚ s experience, many of the advantages of working with a project case study are lost. Instead, the material relies on shorter examples that prove to be reasonably good illustrations of concepts to be absorbed within the confines of a single day. This workshop might serve as ideal just-in-time training for team members about to be thrown into the melee of a new project. Their experiential learning will be on a real project, and the materials presented in this one-day workshop ought to provide some ‚“heads-up ‚½ about the risks involved in projects. In fact, the training focuses more heavily on risk management and communication at the expense of multiple exercises in critical path and other techniques that can be covered in an e-course. The interaction time in this workshop is most important for zeroing in on some of the real-world thorny issues that arise in managing projects.