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Accelerating Complex Projects
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A whitepaper that explains how to get concrete results faster by managing the environment rather than the details.
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Project Accelerator Brochure
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An overview of the Project Accelerator Program mentioned in the "Project Management" and "Tools" section of the Starfield Consulting Ltd. website.
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Section 1. Project Accelerator Overview
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An overview of the Project Accelerator Program that defines what the PA Program can bring to an organization and helps people determine whether PA is suitable for their projects and organizations.
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Section 2.Project Jumpstart Part 1 Tough Questions For Sponsors
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This document is used by Project Managers to aid in their work with their project sponsors. It encourages them to ask questions like: What is the situation that led up to this project being initiated? Why is it important now? What are the key issues as perceived by the stakeholders? What is their level of understanding and commitment? What are the feelings about what has happened so far? What else is happening that will influence the stakeholder's perception of the project?
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Section 3.Project Kickstart
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The purpose of this document is to give the reader an understanding using the method of Open Space to aid in the project kickoff. It will assist you to becoming an advocate for the Open Space process within your organization. It addresses some of the real benefits in using Open Space, and provides the reader with the ability to "sell" the process within their organization.
This section has two distinct components to it. The first component is a series of PowerPoint slides "snapped" into a written explanation. The second component is the PowerPoint slides themselves, which the reader can leverage in a presentation to other people in their organization to help them get a better understanding of the Open Space process, benefits and results.
Practiced worldwide, it is now reaching a level of maturity where it can be said that Open Space, when used correctly will produce breakthrough results for the organizations using it.
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Section 4.Project Crystallizer
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This is the tool used to describe the background, benefits, timelines, issues and benefits of the project. Once complete - this document will define the project and become the project charter.
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Section 4.Project Detailer Form Only
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Most projects are divided into distinct work packages for distribution to the teams. This tool aids the team lead in identifying and defining their "mini" project (much of the same as the process used in Project Crystallizer) and helps the team to further refine the big picture in specific tasks and activities.
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Section 5.Project Synthesizer The Project Status Form
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The project status form is designed to allow sponsors and steering committees to quickly determine the health of a project and any issues that the project faces that need to be dealt with. This tool forces the project manager to critically assess their project and make decisions based upon information that is valid.
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Section 6.Project Detailer The SubProject Status Form
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The sub-project status form is designed to allow project managers to quickly determine the health of a sub-project and any issues that the sub-project faces that need to be dealt with. This tool forces the team lead to critically assess their project and make decisions based upon information that is valid.
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Section 7.Project Status Board Keeping Score
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Nothing focuses efforts and planning like transparency. This tool (used very successfully by some of our more dedicated clients) forces transparency about a project's progress - is is a template for posting on a periodic basis, the project progress toward their goal.
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Section 8.Project Report Upward Status Reporting
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Upward reporting is critical to the ultimate success of a project. Often project managers bog down by reporting "status" rather than outlook which is really the information their managers require. This form assists the project manager to capture the relevent details concerning their project and force their steer committee/project sponsors into a role of guidance and support.
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Section 9.Project Outlook Projecting The Future
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This component of Project Accelerator introduces the concept of contingency planning into the project. It forces the project manager to document all milestones that are not complete and identify at least two scenario's for each milestone that could cause them to miss the delivery date. A contingency plan may not be the final solution however it will provide you with a path to proceed on until you get the delay of the piece of work out of the way.
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Section10.Lessons Learned Workshop
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At the end of a project, clever organizations capture "Lessons Learned." The process should not be painful, nor involve personalities. This document is a complete "Lessons Learned" workshop outline complete with facilitator notes, etc. The process leverage in this document allows the project team to critically evaluate their project while at the same time not allow the process to deteriorate into finger pointing and other detrimental activies
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Total Program - Project Accelerator
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This is the Total Project Accelerator program in one large document. Please be aware that this document is large (over 4 MB) and will take a long time to download depending on your connection.
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