Project Management for Non-Project Managers - Planning your Project - Building the Project Management Master Plan

A project plan outlines every aspect of a project’s objectives, execution, and desired outcomes. The project plan is the most important element of the project management process. The project plan, depending upon the size of your project may be simple or complex, a single document or consist of several subsidiary plans.  Either way, without these plans you have no baseline to measure project progress and project activities against.  You have no way to determine the variances between planned and actuals. 

The project plan does not just address the schedule and costs.  Planning must touch upon every aspect of the project from the scope to the risks that must be managed, to how we will communicate and manage our teams. 

A project plan is a written document or set of documents.  It is a document that you create in collaboration with your project team and that must be aligned to the expectations of your stakeholders.  

This webinar will introduce the concept of planning and how it is conducted.  During the webinar, we will examine the contents of each subsidiary plan, how those plans are created, and the critical baseline measurements that result from each plan.

Areas Covered in the Session :

• What are the 10 questions and how do they help in the formulation of your project definition.
• What is the Project Charter and why is it important?
• What information does the Project Charter contain?
• How is the Project Charter constructed?
• How is stakeholder alignment to the Charter achieved?
• What is the Project Scope Statement and why is it important?
• What information does the Project Scope Statement contain?
• How is the Project Charter and the Project Scope Statement used throughout the life of th
• What is project planning?
• Why is project planning important?
• How are project plans developed and who participates?
• Why is it important that stakeholders approve the project plan?
• What are the most common Project plans?
• The Project Scope Management Plan.
• The Schedule Management Plan.
• The Cost Management Plan.
• The Quality Management Plan.
• The Process Improvement Plan.
• The Stakeholder Management Plan.
• The Communication Management Plan.
• The Risk Management Plan.
• The Procurement Management Plan.
• The Resource Management Plan.

Who Should Attend:

Any member of a cross functional project team:

• Engineers
• Marketing Associates
• Product Managers
• Program Managers
• Contract Managers
• Project Managers
• Research & Development Associates, Managers, and Directors
• Manufacturing Managers
• Technicians
• Anyone that participates in or has the potential to manage team-based cross-functional projects.

This course crosses all industries and functions it is however particularly suited for the health sciences and other regulated industries where much project-based work is accomplished. The types of industries that are targeted include:

• Medical device manufacturers
• Pharmaceutical and Biotech organizations
• Cosmetic and foods manufacturers
• All other industries

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Course Director: CHARLES PAUL

Charles Paul is an instructional designer and management consultant with over 30 years’ experience providing training and consulting services to regulated industries. He has installed quality systems and designed and developed GMP and operational documentation and training programs for foods and beverage, pharmaceuticals, biotech, cosmetics, and consumer product – OTC industries.