Manage a project team: methods and tool for engaging the team

Goals

Team-building related.

• Well understand fundamental methods of Project Management.
• Learn how to use simple and effective techniques to manage projects throughtout their entire life cycle.
• Learn how to clarify objectives, how to change, with your work team, a contract into project deliverables.
• Make sure to provide a proper monitoring.

Target audience

Line managers or supervisors in charge of project management, that want to improve their project-team organisation proficiency.

Prerequisite

Be curruntly, or in the future, in charge of a project.

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

Project environment and set-up

• Be aware of the project environment and its impact on the company organisation (cross-over).
• Build the work team, lead and organise the team, from the design to the close of the project.
• Boost your team relationships with participatory tools (motivation, dissension).

Environment and organization of the project

• Identify the project environment and its impact on the organization of the company (transversality)
• Share information and interact with the project office during the whole project’s life, adjustment of the project
• 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
• Authority and responsability of the Project Manager

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)

Project close-out

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