DAY TWO
Input all networks into MSProject
Highlight errors, missing data
Add management reserve
Clean up and print copies for each participant
Print out deliverables matrix/owners/resources
DAY TWO
- Welcome/review/encourage PostIts to issues
- Review assumptions/discuss/revise
- Introduction to risks/post flip
- Adding deliverable PostIts to appropriate function/category flip
- Teach-develop task PostIts for each deliverable
- Teach-develop network
- Teach-develop owners, effort, duration
- Finish by 4:30 to 6:30
Kinds of Projects that Apply
After Day Three
Facilitator & Assistant-
DAY ONE
DAY THREE
- Clean up schedule
- Clean up plan
- Clean up risk register
- Save all flips
- Send docs to PM
Cross-functional
300 to 800 tasks
6 to 12 Month Schedules
Commitment of a Core Team
Full time PM
- Welcome/general discussion
- Explain importance of confidentiality regarding dates
- Scrub the MSProject schedue
- Assistance enters revisions/corrections
- Review issues List
- Review risks List
- Review deliverables/owner list
- Brainstorm ideas for selected issues and risks
- Sponsor returns & participates in session closure
- Session ends at 3:00 to 5:00
- Welcome/Intro's
- Sponsor speaks
- Agenda for the launch
- Ground rules/assumption and issues flips posted
- Business case presentation/discussion
- Project objective statement displayed and revised
- Objectives taught and exercise develops for each of 10 to 20 categories - debriefed
- Deliverables taught and reviewed
- Day 1 Summarized
- Technical assistant enters all flip data
- Facilitator/PM revise WBS and deliverable list
Chapter Business
What Kind of Projects Apply to this Launch Tour
The Tour
Objectives of the Launch
Principles Behind Launch Success
The Secret Sauce
Pre Launch Effort
- Sponsor commitment is assured
- PM hard at work preparing for launch
- PM and Facilitator met 8-40 hrs
- Documents initiated
- Draft of deliverables created
- Project Objective drafted (S,S,R)
- Business case summary created
- Issues, Assumptions, Risks started
- Facilitator preparing templates/slides
- Stakeholders identified
- Invitations sent
Objectives of Launch
- Alignment of Deliverables
- Commitment
- Accountability
- Legitimate Schedule
- Launch in weeks rather than over months
- Documents to execute, monitor, control project
The Special Sauce
Principles Driving an E&S Design
I jotted these down before the session, we can add those captured to this list
- all parties commit to attend
- sponsor opens and returns
- everyone committed to get it done
- only priority for these 3 days
- everyone is exploited/valued
- progress is constantly apparent
- participants are impressed with their progress
- Standard process, process taught, process used = total alignment
- commitments made publicly
- insure first week or two are successful