Project Management

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Learning Objectives:

As a result of this program, HR professionals will be able to:

• Recognize the “business problem” before the project begins
• Organize tasks easily into logical groups of activities
• Create a project plan to guide all your efforts
• “Manage” your project “team” even if you don’t have one
• Keep critical stakeholders informed and involved
• Track progress and recognize quickly when things are slipping
• Lead effective project meetings
• Demonstrate successful project completion
• Apply lessons learned to the next project.

• Context for HR Project Management
• What are projects and where do they fit?
• Project success factors and pitfalls
• Project Initiation
• Articulate HR project Business Problem
• Perform Stakeholder analysis
• Planning and Scheduling
• Elicit Requirements
• Analyze scope, constraints, assumptions
• Create Work Breakdown Structure and tactical plan
• Sequence activities optimally with Logic Diagram
• Manage the Critical Path
• Schedule, assign responsibility, and track.
• Cost Management
• Estimate Costs
• Define budget and tracking
• Risk Management
• Define risks, qualitatively and quantitatively
• Develop Risk Impact Matrix
• Track and manage Risk; Escalate Risk Proactively
• Human Resource and Communication Plan
• Develop Role and Responsibility Plan; Create RACI diagram
• Develop Management Communications Plan
• Project Execution, Monitoring, and Control
• Define What and How to monitor; scope, schedule, cost, quality
• Capture actual results for scope, schedule, cost, quality
• Project Closure
• Apply Lessons Learned for continuous improvement