The creative process applied to project management

Goals

• Understand the creative process and see why and how it can be used in project management
• Learn how to use simple techniques to bring more human aspects and efficiency into your projects
• Discover and experience a range of participatory tools
• Build a team around a joint sequenced project
• Bring more innovation into projects through the development of collective intelligence

Target audience

• Novice project managers.
• Any person involved in a project. Line managers or supervisors in charge of project management, willing to improve their project-team organisation proficiency.

Prerequisite

None

Contents

Introduction to project management methods

• What is a project?                    
• What is project management?
• The project manager and his / her team
• The triple constraint: cost, deadlines, quality 
• Break a project down with the Mind Mapping technique

Start the project by involving all the actors

• Identify stakeholders, analyze and define needs, clearly identify objectives in line with the overall strategy
• Involve all stakeholders right from the thinking stage with the creativity techniques
• Write specifications and a project sheet
• Follow the launch process of project

Environment and organization of the project

• Identify the project environment and its impact on the organization of the company (transversality)
• Build the team, organize and lead team members from conception to the end of the project
• Boost the team and the life of the team with participatory tools

Scheduling the project

• The content of the project in action: groups of tasks and retro planning
• Finalize the project plan (resources, charges and calendar)
• Share the action around the project

Boosting the project with participatory action of the project team

• Organize and boost meetings
• Involve all stakeholders into the management of the project (co-building tools)

Closing the Project 

• When is the project finished?
• Effectively closing a project (administratively and legally)
• The end of project with the actors: assessment, thanks...