Key Takeaways: Environmental Consultants
2-day Environmental Project Management Planning Workshop
Toronto - September 2014
- Determining the Critical Path
- WBS as a great organizational tool
- Project Charter
- Chart it, Chart it, Chart it
- Stakeholder Engagement is very critical
1-day Introduction to Environmental Project Management Planning Workshop
Newfoundland & Labrador Environmental Industry Association - February 2013
- Well-accepted process for project management
- Be Brief, Be Bright, Be Gone
- When creating a project charter be sure to think, in the broad sense, and include “ALL” groups that could be potentially affected
- Formulating a hierarchy to formalizing a structural approach to managing a project
- Always debrief and record learning
- Visual tools
- The process of identifying stakeholders makes it possible to clarify the essential deliverables
- Organizing x2
- A new process
- Connection between stakeholders and deliverables
- The importance of structure and visualization tools for communications and Buy-In
- Lessons learned are written for future reference
Environmental Project Management Planning Workshop
Natural Resource Solutions Inc. - January 2013
- Deliverable Breakdown Structure (DBS)
- 3 Point Estimating Formula
- More accurate budgeting with formula and use of tables/charts
- Importance of developing good project proposals (format) and adding PM to DBS
- Full PM outline for better tracking of budgets and progress
- The Critical Path
- Visual charting of various concepts, particularly moving through the DBS and reassembly of precedence network diagrams to better envision a project
- Identifying and organizing deliverables and framing proposals
- Importance of brainstorming, peer reviews and visuals
- How to organize thoughts and structure proposals. What is involved in scope, what are considered deliverables, how to communicate with clients and teams
- What to include in proposals for different personalities
- Visual organizational structures. Improved understanding of all PM tasks to be considered through the project duration
- Key to PM is in the preparation of the proposal/charter, revised from the DBS, SBS (Stakeholder Breakdown Structure)and PDN (Precedence Network Diagram)
- Using the Precedence Network Diagram to determine what aspect of the project is controlling the next step & tying it back to the DBS
Environmental Services Association of Alberta - February 2013
- Personality Styles
- Time it takes to properly manage a project
- Scheduling/Critical Path
- Deliverables Breakdown Structures
- Project Charter
- Team Dynamics /Communications/ Working together
- Developing tools to increase accountability
- Importance of specificity & clarity
- Scope Change
- Project Proposal and Charter
- Sponsor sign off responsibilities
- Identification of stakeholders and resources involved
- Project Initiation and Organization
- Capturing all of the stakeholders
- More control on developing project charter
- Can use this tool on other tasks to be more specific and providing clarity
- Group Dynamics
- Accountability
- Storming/Forming/Norming/Performing
- Appreciate work behind Project Management on large projects
