Participatory Project Management Part 2: Project Planning

Description: Teaches a two-phase approach to design a project with 8 – 30 planning participants. Project Design integrates the team’s thinking into a consensus project framework, so everyone is clear on the scope and level of effort needed. Project Planning develops the plan for a project or prototype that is launched in a coordinated and efficient manner. Students use the project development framework to create a project plan using a relevant or real project. Teaches how to harness participation to produce outstanding results.

Part Two: Project Planning is devoted to teaching the ToP® Project Planning methodology, brainstorming and organizing key actions, creating motivated project teams, designating timelines and developing a calendar of events, coordinating the work of the teams, communicating with stakeholders and marketing the project.

Outcomes:

• Fully developed design for a project.
• Valuable planning process that can be applied to many other projects.
• Full buy-in from the planning team about how to approach major projects.

Benefits:

• Generates a large number of practical, creative and relevant actions to complete the project.
• Creates project teams or committees that are motivated to carry out their roles.
• Develops a project timeline and calendar with full group consensus.
• Coordinates actions of various teams to avoid duplication of effort and rework.
• Markets the project with guiding images to motivate participation.

Who Should Take this Course:

• Those who need to align teams to create an inspiring and doable project scope of work
• Business leaders
• Local, state, and federal leaders and program managers
• Managers
• Team leaders
• Team members
• Facilitators and consultants

Course Length: Half-day

Prerequisite: None