PMI knowledge sharing group notes

1. How is change management undertaken when the project is underway?
A. What systems are used to manage change within the project?
*Document time,
*cost impact
*Document scope creep
*Provide change management process to stakeholders
*Set expectations early on
* Have periodic meetings to anticipate changes
*Communicate scope often to stakeholders

2. How best to communicate changes
*Simplify, red for urgent, yellow for semi urgent, green for non issues.

3. Resolving conflicts and resolution tips
*Set roles and responsibilities
*Find out expectations from other stakeholders, lay it out

4. How does one address someone who is uncooperative?
*How does one gain cooperation? Communicate well. Bring input from all team members, to make them realize how critical their input is. Team evolves around unity of purpose- this is the reason why communication is important. Be candid and straight forward.

5. What's the most common format for project plan? A real project plan is a compilation of different plans. See gantthead.com for templates. "Just enough project management," great reference on level of detail to be provided re: project management plan.

6. Enterprise project management, what is the optimal # of enterprise level projects per PM?
*Wait for resources, acquire more resources, or reallocate resources?
7. Reasons for project failure? Missing project plan.

8. Best practices IT project? Understand the technology.

9. Lessons learned? At start of new one, at end of a project.
10. Project accountability in a weak matrix organization: figure who's running the organization.
11. PM value *Show value in PM processes to encourage buy in. 1 concept at a time.

12. What key PM value are employers looking for? Innovation and collaboration/ alignment with business group.