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Description

 
 
This workshop is built around a simulation game. The participants, organised in a project team, have to plan and conduct the project by incorporating available resources and means and anticipating the difficulties involved in this operation. The simulation sequences and case studies composing this workshop allow us to deal with planning on both the methodological and management levels.
 

Targets

 
 
  • Understanding the way of analysing and structuring a project
  • Practising methods and tools for project planning and followup
  • Establishing a check-list of points to analyse and questions to ask to anticipate better
  • Conducting analysis meetings, status meetings
  • Developing efficient behaviour patterns

Public concerned

 
 
  • Planners
  • Organisers
  • Coordinators
  • Project Leaders
  • Resource managers
  • Operational managers

Programme

 
 
Project context: the specifications
  • Forming the idea at the origin of the project: the specification
  • The importance of lead time control
Organising the project
  • Structuring the project into systems, products and tasks (the WBS)
  • Stating responsibilities
  • Defining work with job sheets
Establishing the first plans
  • Concepts: activities, links, resources
  • Theoretical planning (the PERT, the Gantt)
  • Planning by targets, tasks, means
  • Taking external constraints into consideration
Identifying and using floats
  • Definition: free float, total float
  • Principles and exceptions
  • Rules of use
Entering lead time targets
  • Estimating lead time: overall duration, duration of tasks
  • Evaluating planning components
  • Applying a procedure to reduce lead time
Taking resources into consideration
  • Drawing up a charge plan and optimising it (levelling, smoothing)
  • Taking resource organisation into account
  • Incorporating group work elements
Implementing a lead time reference
  • Anticipating operational problems - identifying critical points
  • Analysing and managing risks
  • Defining follow-up mode: milestones, reviews
  • Establishing reference planning
Practising planning analysis meetings
  • Organising an analysis meeting
  • Choosing and controlling the procedure
  • Practising planning by targets
  • Practisijg the choice of options under the aspect of costs/lead time (PERT/Cost)
  • Practice of coodination planning
  • Key questions, winning behaviour patterns
Steering the status
  • Organising a status meeting
  • Managing contingencies and modifications
  • Taking remedial action, replanning
  • Communicating status
Progressing with the pertinent indicators
  • Practising physical status
  • Analysing variations and trends
  • Building up a dashboard
  • Representation modes, conventions
Managing with planning
  • Ordering plans
  • Strategy / programme / projects / subprojets
  • Project planning / Job planning
  • Organising the update cycle
Organisational and human aspects
  • Obstacles to planning
  • Involving players in planning construction
  • Negotiating and obtaining the commitment of parties
Summary
  • Key points in the planning procedure
  • Improving planning through experience return
  • Understanding the planning mission and getting it understood
 
 
 
 
 
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