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Stan Katz Project Management Presentation
This document discusses how to improve project management and ensure project success. It defines a project as a non-recurring business activity that can impact profits. Projects often fail due to poor planning, lack of clear goals, insufficient management support, or not using project management best practices. To ensure success, it is important to create a detailed project plan signed off by all stakeholders, make sure goals are understood the same by everyone, and use proper project management techniques. The company Enov8 provides project management training, planning, execution support, and tools to evaluate and fix processes to help organizations improve their project success rates.
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- 1. H O WT O B E M O R E S U C C E S S F U L W I T H A B E T T E R B O T T O M L I N E A N D I M P R O V E D P R O F I T A B I L I T Y Improving Your Project Management Enov8 Incorporated (416) 409-2975
- 2. What is aProject? A Project is any business activity that is not a normally recurring event. Projects may be for internal “clients” or external clients All projects have a bottom line impact Some projects may be re-done for similar purposes but with different outcomes. i.e. systems development projects. Enov8 Incorporated (416) 409-2975
- 3. Why DO ProjectFail? Projects fail because: Poor Planning Lack of understanding of the goal Set up to fail by lack of knowledge by management Lack of project management knowledge and/or ability by project managers and/or staff Failure to use common sense Enov8 Incorporated (416) 409-2975
- 4. How Do IEnsure Project Success? Use proper project planning and not just a Gantt Chart. A Gantt Chart is NOT a project plan A project plan provides detail about what must be done A project plan is signed off! Make sure everyone understands the goals of the project in the same way. Enov8 Incorporated (416) 409-2975
- 5. We Can Help! At Enov8 we: Train your management and staff Plan your projects properly Manage you project teams Evaluate and if needed fix your processes and methodologies Get poorly performing project back on track Provide an innovative project success reporting tool to find problems before they occur Enov8 Incorporated (416) 409-2975
- 6. Contact Us ForMore Information Ask for a copy of “A Gantt Chart is NOT a Project Plan” written by Stan Katz, MBA, PMP Ask about our PM Workshop – “The Discipline of Project Management” Contact us at: (416) 409-2975 Stan.Katz@enov8.ca Enov8 Incorporated (416) 409-2975
Editor's Notes
- #4 Today I want to discuss our new Project Management Practice. We have brought together a Practice Leader and a group of experienced professionals whose knowledge and skills in project management will help you to improve your ability to complete projects successfully.
- #5 This new service allows us to provide you with the experienced project management professionals who can augment your own staff and lead a project from the very beginning to its successful conclusion. Or, if you are having difficulty with a particular project, one of our skilled project managers can come in just to fix it up. In addition, we will develop a training program to raise the skill level of your own staff, both project managers and non-project managers, to ensure all of your projects have a better chance at being successful. Do you have documented project processes and methodologies? If not, we can assist you in getting best practices established within your organization and even create a Project Management Office or PMO to ensure continued project success.
- #6 There are many companies providing project managers. Why should you use Great Northern? Well, when you use us, you will be working with only experienced professionals. We vet each of our staff members before we allow them to carry a Great Northern business card to make sure they meet our criteria for knowledge, experience, skill and the ability to work with our customers and be successful. To further ensure the success of our staff, we have a comprehensive, yet easy to use project management methodology each of our project managers adheres to. Furthermore, unlike many other organizations, we have a very experienced project manaagement practice manager who works with our project managers and your management teams to ensure our professionals meet all project requirements.
- #7 The project managers we provide are, like all other Great Northern professionals, the best at what they do. We have a very rigorous structure for selecting staff to work under the Great Northern name. You will not find any junior staff, only very experienced professionals.
- #8 We make an effort to ensure our staff are more than competent. Staff have certifications from either or both the Project Management Institute or the Institute of Management Consultants.
- #9 Our project management methodology helps ensure project success. It is Deliverable based and Project Client oriented. This methodology helps our project managers manage change and control risk. It is a true aid to project success.
- #10 Unlike many other organizations, we have experienced leadership for our project management practice. Our Practice Leader comes out of a Big 5 management consulting background. He is one of the very few individuals in the US with both the PMP and CMC certifications (CMC is Certified Management Consultant). His knowledge and management skills provides an added level of support to your organization that very few other companies can provide.
- #11 Great Northern is dedicated to delivering the value proposition that our clients demand. From our experience in delivering “best of breed” solutions we now bring you the professional Project Managers that will improve your whole project management process. You benefit in many ways including improved performance, better customer service and increased employee morale. The result can be seen right at the bottom line.
- #12 Why are we different from other organizations that offer project managers. In addition to all of the buzz words you hear from them, we add a few more, but with meaning. We don’t just offer bodies, we provide professionals.