Key Takeaways: First Nations
Environmental Project Management Planning Workshop
- Difference between a project and program
- Understanding the project lifecycle and the importance of planning before beginning initiation of a new project
- Importance of front end effort necessary for business case planning
- Building a project proposal/charter
- Adding more detail to project charter background Why Needed (ABCC) – Accountability, Business Process not Working, Competition, Change, Congruency
- Step by Step Process = Success
- New tools such as the Deliverable Breakdown Structure, Critical Path Method, Precedent Network Diagram
- Understanding the amount of time/money/resources required for proper project planning management
- Creating a timeline and critical path
- The importance of sequencing activities to utilize efficiencies
- How to organize my projects
- Information I can use and share
- Framework for project management from start to finish
- Scope In and Scope Out
- Real-world applicability: identify deliverables, organizational structures, sign off stages
- To help ensure all factors are considered and incorporated when planning and managing a project
- Learning the PM lingo and the applications behind it
Environmental Project Management Planning Workshop
North Shore Tribal Council - November 2012
- Deliverable Breakdown Structure
- How to develop a Project Charter
- Communications tools “charts” with leadership (Chief and council & Managers)
- Clarity
- What you should put in a RFP and agreements for reporting
- Objectives should be S.M.A.R.T.S.
- Precedence Network Diagram
- Team Exercises
