Project Organizational Planning

Overview/Description
 Abraham Lincoln once said, "If I had six hours to chop down a tree, I would spend the first four hours sharpening the ax." He knew that advance planning and preparation are essential to successfully completing a project. The team you have can make or break a project. When everyone involved in a project has clearly assigned roles and responsibilities, productivity follows. This course can help you ensure success as you learn effective organizational planning.

Target Audience
 This series is targeted specifically for project managers, project team members, functional managers with employees assigned to project teams, project stakeholders, any team manager or member interested in project management, executives committed to their organization's growth, managers required to take on new challenges, and top managers with vision.

Expected Duration
2.5 hours

Lesson Objectives:

Inputs to Organizational Planning

  • recognize the benefits of understanding the inputs to organizational planning.
  • differentiate between different project interface categories, given examples.
  • determine whether project staffing requirements are complete.
  • identify project planning constraints, given examples.

    • Tools and Techniques for Organizational Planning

  • recognize the benefits of using the tools and techniques for organizational planning.
  • identify the reasons for using templates for organizational planning.
  • choose the best human resource practices for a given scenario.
  • apply the principles of new hybrid organizational structures to a given scenario.
  • perform elements of a stakeholder analysis, given a scenario.

    • Outputs from Organizational Planning

  • recognize the advantages of using the outputs from organizational planning.
  • determine project roles and responsibilities, based on a given Responsibility Assignment Matrix (RAM).
  • identify the components of a staffing management plan.
  • identify the characteristics of various organizational charts.
  • identify the aspects of supporting details from organizational planning.

    • Course Number: PROJ0271