Project Management Lessons Learned

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Project Management Lessons Learned From The
Silver Screen
Tony Crawford, PMP www.alphaPM.com
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Groundhog Day
Lesson Learned
The value of Lessons Learned to achieve
Continuous Improvement
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Project Management- 20 Steps to Success
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Capability Maturity Model
5. Optimizing Focus on Process Improvement
Continuously Improving Process
4. Managed Process measured and controlled
Predictable Process
Maturity
3. Defined Process defined and well understood
Standard Consistent Process
2. Repeatable Can repeat tasks
Disciplined process
1. Initial Unpredictable and poorly controlled
Ad Hoc and Informal
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Information Management Capacity Check Tool
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PMIs Organizational Project Management Maturity
Model (OPM3TM)
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Lessons Learned

• Ongoing
• Collect lessons learned throughout the project
• Synthesize at the end of each phase
• Disseminate and action to address

• Topics to addressWhat worked well
• What could be done better
• Were requirements and schedules met to client
  satisfaction
• Was the project within budget
• Was there a good balance between scope, schedule
  and budget
• Was the project methodology effective
• Were risks identified and addressed effectively
• Was team morale good
• Was there good participation by and
  communications with all stakeholders
• Were deliverables of good quality

• At the end of each phase/project
• Hold a formal lessons learned review with key
  team members and stakeholders
• Provide an advance agenda
• Facilitate with an external facilitator
• Personal issues are out of bounds
• Intent is to improve the process, not find a
  scapegoat
• Apply lessons learned to future projects across
  the organization

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Apollo 13
Lessons Learned
Controlling Scope, Schedule and Cost
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Project Management- 20 Steps to Success
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Apollo 13
Launch 11 April, 1970
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The Triple Constraints
Quality
Scope
Time
Cost
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Apollo 13
Lessons Learned
Controlling Scope, Schedule and Cost
The value of Leadership and Teamwork
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The value of Leadership and Teamwork Part 2
Tenzing Norgay on the summit of Mount Everest at
11.30 a.m.Photo Edmund Hillary, May 29, 1953
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The value of Leadership and Teamwork Part 3
Ernest Shackleton
The Endurance trapped in the ice - Winter 1915
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Titanic
Lessons Learned
The Value of Risk Management
The importance of Communications
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Project Management- 20 Steps to Success
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Risk Management Processes
Risk Identification
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Risk Response Plan
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Risk Management Processes
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Communications Management Plan Template
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Wizard of Oz
Lesson Learned
Develop and support your team
Who Wants To Be AProject Manager?
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Project Management- 20 Steps to Success
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5. Optimizing
Continuously improvemethods for
developingpersonal and organizationalcompetence
Continuous Workforce InnovationCoachingPersonal
Competency Development
www.sei.cmu.edu
4. Managed
Organizational Performance AlignmentOrganizationa
l Competency ManagementTeam-Based PracticesTeam
BuildingMentoring
Quantitatively manageorganizational growthin
workforce capabilitiesand establishcompetency-ba
sed teams
3. Defined
Participatory CultureCompetency-Based
PracticesCareer DevelopmentCompetency
DevelopmentWorkforce PlanningKnowledge and
Skills Analysis
Identify core competencies and align
workforceactivities with them
2. Repeatable
CompensationTrainingPerformance
ManagementStaffingCommunicationWork Environment
Install basic disciplineinto workforce
activities
1. Initial
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Foster Team Development

• Project Team Communications
• Status Meetings
• Regular individual feedback on performance
• Supportive of initiatives and problem resolution
• Rewards and recognitions (team and individual)
• Coaching (mostly by the Project Manager)
• Mentoring (by another Manager)
• Training
• Technical or Management related
• Classroom, Web Based, Books, Industry groups
• Performance Appraisals
• Set clear Goals and Objectives

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What are the lessons you have learned from the
movies?
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Lessons Learned from the Movies

• The following were submitted by participants at
  the PMI-OVOC Luncheon Meeting in Ottawa on March
  30th 2005.

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Lessons Learned from the Movies (Contd)
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End Project Management Lessons Learned from
the Silver Screen