Contents of This Section

	Basic Project Management—A Foundation For Change (1 day)
	Project Management Fundamentals (2 days)
	Managing Very Small Projects (1 day)
	Small Project Management (2 days)
	Mastering the Guide Templates (.5 day)
	Maximizing Your Customer Role in a Guide Project (1 day)
	A Day in Your Life with THE Guide (1 day)
	A Day in Your Life with MinProj (1 day)

About our Individual Contributor Curriculum
To aid your quest to improve your Enterprise Project Management, ProjectExperts provides a different Learning series for your individual contributors, than for your project management practitioners—why?

Many training providers and their customers subject all beginning Project Managers and team members to the same 3-5 day+ class their experienced Project Managers attend. Others figure that if they’ve trained their Project Managers, the teams will just follow along. Not True!

The first practice mentioned above results in overwhelmed staff and wasted training dollars. Most team members and beginning Project Managers don’t need, and cannot absorb that much new information. What is worse, you may create an aversion to the very skills and processes you wish to improve, by presenting material your participants are not ready for. The second practice, ignoring the team’s training needs, fails to recognize that each team member must manage their part of the project if the Project Manager is going to receive the information he or she requires.

For twenty years, we have recognized these challenges with a separate-and-compatible curriculum that is built from the point of view of your individual contributors. This curriculum presents useful and relevant methods for the skills team members need most. At the same time, it provides process and terminology consistency with our Practitioners’ Learning. Our Learning for Individual Contributors curriculum meets the rest of your Project Management learning and development needs.

Of course, all our Learning experiences are consistent with the asapm® USA National Competence Baseline, and with the Institute's PMBOK® Guide.

Basic Project Management—A Foundation For Change (1 day)
Almost everyone is involved with projects these days, because they are the method for effective organizational change. But for many people, the discipline of project management is still a mysterious, jargon-filled practice that only indoctrinated professionals apply. The truth is, every one of us practices the most important elements of project management activties somewhere in our lives. Perhaps it is in the workplace; maybe at home; or just the last time you planned a vacation.

This Learning experience relates the most important and most useful aspects of project management to events in everyday life, debunking and explaining the jargon, and helping you transition your role from initiate to change agent in the aspects of project management that most affect your daily work. See the Basic Project Management Outline.

Project Management Fundamentals^SM (2 days)
This Learning experience provides project team members of medium and larger projects with the basics of successful Project Management. The session covers problem analysis and work structuring, estimating, scheduling and tracking, and uses topical exercises to provide "in-class" experience.

The differences between this topic and those in our Practitioners' section are: 1) This topic is from the point of view of the team members, not the Project Manager; and 2) we scale the methods down and simplify them. At the same time the methods are fully consistent with our other topics. See the Project Management Fundamentals Outline.

Managing Very Small Projects^SM (1 days)
Very Small Projects are usually larger than  you think. And trying to keep them small is a tough job too, especially when you are balancing ongoing work commitments with project work. This session is for those who are new to Project management, and don’t need the industrial-strength methods of larger projects. The session uses everyday examples of project management at work, from participants’ own experience, and that of others. Focusing on understanding the business need, the structuring, estimating and scheduling of work, and staying on top of status and changes, the class helps achieve successful closure. See the Managing Very Smalll Projects Outline.

Small Project Management^SM (2 days)
Today's white-collar professionals spend up to 75% of their time in projects. They spend much of this time in smaller, "need it yesterday" tasks. And, they don't really manage this work as projects, just "something that needs to be done by the end of the month". This Learning experience presents an enterprise-wide project management methodology that excels for the small project environment, and at the same time, is consistent with the terminology and techniques of our other project management Learning experiences. See the Small Project Management Outline.

Mastering the Guide Templates (.5 day)
This Learning experience supports supports customers who have licensed THE Guide, our innovative Project Management and Systems Engineering methodology. THE Guide now has over 50 templates, whose purpose is to improve the speed, consistency and quality of project efforts. The templates are in three groups:
• Working Templates provide activity-by-activity support to team members
• Deliverables Templates provide the framework for those who prepare for Milestone Approvals
• Project Templates help plan, track, review results and report status the project.

There are common elements within the three groups. This Learning experience covers those similarities, plus the highlights of each unique template. The class is structured as a customizable framework, with the session facilitator preparing for the path and phases to be discussed by “plugging in” the templates to cover, selecting which portions should have the major emphasis, and smoothing the content for the intended audience. See the Mastering the Guide Templates Outline.

Maximizing Your Customer Role in a Guide Project (1 day)
This Learning experience supports customers who have licensed THE Guide, our innovative Project Management and Systems Engineering methodology. Today’s most effective enterprises manage business projects differently than we did in the past. No longer does a fragmented business unit throw undefined business needs over the fence, leaving IT to guess about the real business problem or opportunity, or the best solution. Today, dedicated teams of business partners and IT professionals work together, each providing their unique strengths and knowledge to define, design and deliver results that align with corporate strategies. See the Managing Your Customer Role Outline.

A Day in Your Life with THE Guide (1 day)
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. If this sounds familiar, this class is for you! See our Day In Your Life Outline.

A Day in Your Life with MinProj (1 day)
This session introduces individual contributors to the use of MinProj, the ProjectExperts’ minimum-effort, maximum value Enterprise Project Management and Business Improvement method (or as some call them, methodology). It focuses on the PM steps, and the key Business Improvement steps in the context of a project start-up. The challenge for many in today’s Enterprise is to start projects effectively, while still balancing ongoing responsibility. The session offers momentum in the all-important start-up processes every successful project requires. See this Day In Your Life Outline.

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