Lean Project Management

Our lean project management services ensure educational projects are delivered on time and address all system intricacies of any institution via strategic planning, execution efficiency and monitoring performance.

Overview

One of the topics discussed extensively in the current Education System, is the skill set required by the students to survive in the Business and the Industrial world. Globally much energy has been expended in attempting to raise the basic skill levels and standards in general curriculum areas such as reading and math, but little attention has been devoted to LIFE SKILLS. As per UNICEF ( Ref : Comprehensive framework for life skills) , the top 3 Life

skills are:  
  •  INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION SKILLS & SYSTEM THINKING 
  • DECISION MAKING AND CRITICAL THINKING 
  • SKILLS COPING AND SELF MANAGEMENT SKILLS 

The Course embeds the following content 
  • Integration Management 
  • Scope Management 
  • Schedule Management 

  • Cost Management

  • Quality Management

  • Human Resources Management

  • Communications Management

  • Risk Management

  • Procurement Management

  • Stakeholders Management

What will you gain
 
   ✓  Lean Thinking 
 
  ✓  Communication skills

   ✓  Negotiations, influencing, and persuasion skills

   ✓  Empathy (the ability to understand from another perspective)

   ✓  Cooperation, teamwork, and collaboration

   ✓  Critical thinking and problem solving

   ✓  Ethics

   ✓  Self-assessment and self-management

   ✓  Time management and positive thinking

   ✓  System Thinking


Duration - 12 HOURS
 
Course Outline
1  RECOGNIZE CORE TERMINOLOGY

 1.1 Define Business-Business Model Canvas
 1.2 Define a project, product, program, portfolio, etc.
 1.4 Define Project management
 

2  IDENTIFY PROJECT ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

 2.1  Define the key stakeholder roles such as project managers, sponsors, team leaders, client, regulatory bodies)
 
 2.2  Define the key stakeholder responsibilities such as project managers, sponsors, team leaders, team members, project clients

 2.3  Identify leadership and conflict management.

 2.4  Team Dynamics- Tuckman Model for Team Formation
 
 
3 IDENTIFY ATTRIBUTES RELATED TO GATHERING REQUIREMENTS

 3.1 List types of requirements (e.g.,functional, nonfunctional, stakeholder, security, benchmarking etc.)

 3.2 List ways of gathering requirements

 3.3 List tools used for capturing requirements (survey, focus group interview,
       questionnaire, process diagrams, etc.)

 3.4 Define requirements traceability matrix

4 TRADITIONAL PLAN-BASED METHODOLOGIES

  4.1 I dentify the features of different organizational environments (e.g.co-location and virtual teams, decentralized and            centralized organization and organizational structures (functional, matrix, projectized))

  4.2 Describe organizational structures (e.g.co-location and virtual teams, decentralizedand centralized organization,            and organizational structures (functional, matrix, projectized))


  4.3 Identify the primary rationale for traditional plan-based projects

  4.4 Identify the process groups and knowledge areas (e.g., cost, quality, risk, schedule,etc.)

  4.5 Define Progressive Elaboration

  4.6 Identify project phases and the correct order of the phases

  4.7 Define a typical project structure


5 IDENTIFY ATTRIBUTES RELATED TO INITIATION PHASE

  5.1 Define a business case

  5.2 Define project scope

  5.3 Define deliverables

  5.4 Define a milestone and task

  5.5 Define issues, risks, assumptions, and constraints (Risk Register)

  5.6 Develop Project Charter

  5.7 Stakeholder register

 

6 PROJECT MANAGEMENT PLAN FOR SCOPE, SCHEDULE AND COST

  6.1 Define a work breakdown structure, work package

  6.2 Identify the steps to create a schedule/Gantt chart

  6.3 List the types of dependencies (e.g., sequence, start to start, finish to sequence, start to start, finish to start, etc.)

  6.4 Define a critical path

 

7 IDENTIFY ATTRIBUTES OF EXECUTING, MONITORING AND CONTROLLING SCOPE,SCHEDULE AND COST

  7.1 Describe the project controls in traditional plan-based projects (e.g., earned value,baselines, etc.)

  7.2 Describe, PV, EV, AC, SPI, CPI, EAC, BAC, EAC, ETC and how to calculate the same

 

8 PLANNING FOR PROJECT RISKS, COMMUNICATION, AND CHANGE CONTROL

  8.1 Analyse the Risks to a Project

  8.2 Create a Communication Plan

  8.3 Plan for Change Control

 

9 MANAGING A PROJECT WORK

  9.1 Begin Project Work

  9.2 Execute the Project Plan

  9.3 Track Project Progress

  9.4 Report Performance

  9.5 Implement Change Control

 

10 PROJECT CLOSURE

  10.1 Lessons Learned

  10.2 Contract Closure

  10.3 Getting acceptance from customer

 

11 PROCESS IMPROVEMENT- LEAN

  11.1 Definition of Lean

  11.2 7 Wastes in Project Management Process

  11.3 Workplace Organization- 5S

  11.4 Problem solving tool- 5 Whys


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