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Project Planning and Management Workshop
  • April 1-2, 2008
  • CenterPoint Energy's Offices - Houston (downtown)

This workshop qualifies for 16 continuing education credits.

 

Learning Outcomes

  • Knowledge of why to stress planning and the cost of poor planning
  • Ability to use 4-6 simple yet powerful planning tools
  • Skills to plan and implement effectively with others (using basic group and interpersonal skills)
  • High motivation to plan more effectivel

Instructor

Doug Pearson, Pearson Consulting Associates, is the instructor for this workshop. Doug is well know in the natural gas industry and has conducted this training for Reliant Energy, El Paso Natural Gas, as well as Sony Corp., Solar Turbines, Georgia Pacific, Sysco Corp., Amgen, SpeedFam-IPEC, and Eli Lilly.

Workshop Schedule

April 1, 2008:    8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
April 2, 2008:     8 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Highlights

  • The project management process
  • Project planning & management tools
  • Managing relationships in projects
  • Managing project teamwork
  • Managing, implementing, and closing
  • Pipeline project simulatio

Workshop Outline

Section One: The Project Management Process

  • What is project management?
  • Project management effectiveness
  • Planning: investing in success
  • Project planning: a life cycle view
This section stresses the payoff of, and issues around, good planning practices, and it develops the case for concurrent or "up front" planning. A two-hour group planning exercise introduces teamwork issues.

Section Two: Project Planning & Management Tools

  • Three-pass planning
  • Schedule charts (Gannt/Bar)
  • Network diagramming (CPM/PERT)
  • Responsibility charts
  • Cross boundary "Four-Field" charts
Within the context of concurrent or accelerated, and "three-pass" planning, participants learn about basic PPM tools such as work breakdown structures, and other planning and risk analysis tools, bar charts, CPM methods, responsibility charts, and "four-field" charts. Most involve hands-on exercises.

Section Three: Managing Relationships in Projects

  • Understanding individual differences
  • Resolving project conflict
Interpersonal styles are introduced via an MBTI-like instrument, supporting a focus on interpersonal interaction, style "flexing" and self understanding. An optional communication styles instrument is used to focus specifically on communication skills. The remainder of the time is usually spent on ways of handling a variety of project related conflicts.

Section Four: Managing Project Teamwork

  • Group decision making: Why? When? How?
  • Effective teamwork exercise
Team effectiveness and group decision making addressed in a dynamic exercise which stresses application to participants own projects.

Section Five: Managing, Implementing, and Closing

  • Implementation problems
  • Gaining commitment
Focus is on company specific implementation problems and gaining commitment of stakeholders.

Section Six: Pipeline Project


This two hour team simulation involves planning and constructing a natural gas pipeline.

 

Professional Development Hours

Professional Development Hours will be awarded for attending this meeting.

 

Registration

The registration fee for this workshop is $695 ($995 non-members). Includes continental breakfast, breaks, lunch, and all meeting materials.

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Hotel Reservations

  • Hyatt Regency Houston (1200 Louisiana St)
  • Southern Gas Association rate: $159
  • 800-233-1234
  • Cutoff is March 5

This meeting takes place next door @ CenterPoint Energy's offices. The Hyatt and CenterPoint's offices are connected by a sky bridge.

 

Questions?

Pat Turman (pturman@southerngas.org)

 

Updated: January 3, 2008

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