Definitions
Role as Project Manager
Partner Organizations
In Writing
PA and TSP
100
A temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product, service or result.
What is a project?
100
Develops and manages budget (if applicable).
Who is the project manager?
100
TSP partner organizations must not engage Allies in _______________ activities.
What is prohibited?
100
This document describes the project in detail and should include the project's objectives, deliverables, scope of the project, tasks involved and steps to manage and control project execution and completion.
What is the project plan?
100
TSP teams use this time to discuss project updates, action items, subcommittee reports, notes from their last gathering and possibly the date/time of their next gathering.
What is a team meeting?
200
The process and activity of planning, organizing, motivating, and controlling resources to achieve a project's specific goals.
What is project management?
200
Manages issues and ____________.
What are risks?
200
As part of their proposal, your TSP partner organization should have identified their plan to address project _______________ or how they will keep the project going once your team is done.
What is sustainability?
200
The project charter is the ________ for senior management, stakeholder and/or sponsor support.
What is the contract?
200
This is defined as tasks or activities that increase an organization's ability to deliver better services. These activities can increase the organization's efficiency, effectiveness, or scale/reach.
What is capacity building?
300
The person (or people) responsible for leading the project from inception to completion.
What (who) is the project manager?
300
Responsible for ____________ project status meetings.
What is conducting?
300
Many partner organizations are attracted to the 'idea' that to improve a community, you have to discover and build upon its assets. This idea has an acronym of ABCD.
What is Asset Based Community Development?
300
A project charter keeps team focused on _____________
What are deliverables?
300
All TSP projects must be related to these focus areas.
What are Education and Economic Opportunity?
400
This identifies the project's objectives/goals, phases, tasks, resources, budget and schedule.
What is (project) scope?
400
Responsible for ____________ project information.
What is reporting?
400
In their proposal, Partner Organizations must describe their vision for a __________ that they would like to plan with the Allies.
What is a Day of Service?
400
This document is used to assist organizations in developing preliminary ideas about how they can benefit from partnering with Public Allies Chicago to plan and implement a Team Service Project.
What is the TSP proposal?
400
Throughout their term, Allies use this system to report on their learning process and progress.
What is PISD?
500
This document details the project responsibilities of the Partner Organization and the Public Allies Team Service Project members through the planning, implementation, evaluation, and close out/sustainability phases of the project. It is a written agreement between you and your Partner Organization.
What is the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)?
500
Responsible for ____________ conflict resolution.
What is facilitating?
500
TSP Partner Organizations must have a dedicated staff member that will act as a _________ to the TSP team.
What is a liaison?
500
A project charter is ____________ required.
What is always?
500
Each TSP team was asked to create this visual representation of the team members' values or characteristics.
What is an asset map?
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