Project Management: TRAINING

Defining the Scope of Your Project Management Training Effort

The greatest threat to the success of any project (including your project to teach project management) is scope creep. We all intuitively understand this concept and its implications. However, for our purposes, it may be helpful to look at some of the dimensions of scope so we can better define our training project scope and manage the expectations of our training stakeholders.

• Levels of material taught. Are you merely providing a simple project management overview for new project team members? Are you providing a project management fundamentals workshop that will last a few days? People’s definitions of even something as basic as “fundamentals” will vary widely, so you will need ...