Why This Course?
This learning experience supports supports customers who have licensed THE Guide, our innovative Project Management and Systems Engineering methodology. THE Guide’s features, including our web-based The Online Guide, recommended and supporting templates, and Project Logs can be intimidating at first. Add that to multiple paths for different size ranges, technologies and constraints, and it can be challenging for team members who at first fear that THE Guide is really just more work for them.

The purpose of this one-day session is to provide practical application of the paths, methods, templates, references and tools of THE Guide for those who can benefit from the most: the team members who produce the work that THE Guide enhances and enables.

Learning Objectives (1 day)

	Introduce the purpose of and the components of THE Guide.
	Describe how to use THE Guide Method as a tool to complete daily work.
	Identify the alternative project Paths, with their required deliverables and support templates.
	Describe the key decision-points in a project, and the Basic 9 Results: the most important products of any project.
	For the Medium Component Design path, use pages from The Online Guide to learn more about activity assignments and outputs.
	Use the Working Paper and Deliverable Templates to produce better project results.
	Explore the Project Management Templates, such as the Quality Log and Issue Log for their features and project usefulness.
	Discuss the roles and responsibilities of all participants in a well-managed project. Describe the ideal team member in a Guide project.

Audience
The target audience for this learning experience is Information Technology team members of medium or larger projects using THE Guide.

Note
This learning experience can also work well when licensed for presentation by your in-house facilitators. In that delivery mode, it can be presented in 2-hour sessions over several sessions. Contact us for more information about our licensing and certification process.

Course Outline
This learning experience closely follows the sequence of the Learning Objectives, above.