Leadership skills
Needing to treat each person in the group as an individual, which promotes trust and builds confidence among group members.
What is understanding the needs and characteristics of the group?
The project manager defines the project scope.
What is the Initiating phase?
An internal, or in-house, Website and network used only by employees within a company.
What is an Intranet?
ensuring that all project elements are properly coordinated by developing and executing the project plan.
What is Project Integration Management?
The program mandate and creates support for it across the organization. The program mandate details the benefits that the program seeks to realize and how those benefits will help the organization reach its strategic vision.
What is Pre-program setup?
Helping to keep group members focused on achieving the project goals by communicating clear instructions, offering help when necessary, and quickly dealing with disputes.
What is controlling group performance?
The project manager develops a project schedule.
What is the Planning phase?
An internal network designed to provide access to selected external users, and is not available to the Internet public.
What is an Extranet?
Defining the tasks and resources needed to meet project objectives, and identifying the budget constraints
What is Project Scope Management?
How the program will accomplish the mandate defined in the pre-program setup phase. During this phase, the program manager must conduct feasibility studies, identify potential risks, make procurement decisions, and make time and cost estimates for the overall program. The program manager must also define the individual projects needed to reach the program objectives.
What is Program setup?
Influencing the performance of group members by your own actions. By setting the example of how you want your group members to conduct themselves, you can positively (or negatively) affect group performance and the outcome of the project.
What is setting a good example?
The project manager assigns and coordinates people and resources that will be used in the project, and work begins.
What is the Executing phase?
An audio and/or video media file that is distributed over the Internet, either live or on demand.
What is a Webcast?
Defining task durations and developing the project schedule to ensure that a project is completed by the deadline.
What is Project Time Management?
Establishes the organizational rules and procedures that all program participants need to follow to promote uniformity and efficiency. The program manager can employ tools such as Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software, project management software, time and expense reporting software, and other tools to keep track of program components.
What is Program management and technical infrastructure?
Providing encouragement, reassurance and information to help a grouo member to decide what the solution is to resolve his or her difficulty.
What is providing counseling?
The project manager takes corrective action if the project is falling behind.
What is the Controlling phase?
An interactive Web-based seminar or training session that is typically one-way, from speaker to participants with limited audience participation.
What is a Webinar?
Controlling expenses to ensure that a project is completed within the approved budget.
What is Project Cost Management?
Initiates and completes the projects contained in the program. The project deliverables contribute to the overall goal of the program. This phase may contain a great number of individual projects, requiring that the program manager exhibit appropriate leadership to coordinate the effort of all the projects.
What is Program benefits?
Increasing the knowledge, skills and aptitudes of group members as they progress through their tasks and overcome obstacles.
What is teaching effectively?
The project manager and project team discuss the aspects of the project that were successful and the changes that should be implemented in the future.
What is the Closing phase?
An interactive Web-based seminar or training session that is usually interactive, enabling participants to communicate with the presenter and with each other via online chat.
What is a Web conference?
Incorporating appropriate quality assurance and product testing techniques to ensure that project deliverables satisfy project goals and meet customer needs.
What is Project Quality Management?
Occurs after all interdependent projects are completed and their deliverables delivered. The program manager needs to close the program in an orderly fashion by disbanding program participants, documenting lessons learned, and gathering and archiving all relevant records, communications and supporting details for future use by the organization.
What is Program close?