As a program manager, you must establish practices that’ll best serve the projects you don’t directly oversee and strategize ways to streamline organizational processes. You will use skills like project coordination to help you organize stakeholders and project team members, affirm their roles and responsibilities, and help them to see how the projects in the program are related to support effective project workflows.
For this assessment, you will prepare a program kickoff presentation for stakeholders, project managers, and team members. Your presentation will explain the program, including what is known about it, the work ahead, and possibly even details the audience might not receive elsewhere.
Select 1 organization from the following list:
Greyson Corporation using information from the Greyson Corporation Case Study (Kerzner, 2022)
Crosby Manufacturing Corporation using information from the Crosby Manufacturing Corporation Case Study (Kerzner, 2022)
An organization and program of interest to you
Analyze the organization you selected and define the organizational structure for the project team, including:
How this structure influences how a project team is organized
The level of authority associated with the program manager
Identify 1 program of 2 or 3 short-term projects, such as those that can be completed in less than 1 year. The program may be longer than 1 year, but individual projects should not be longer than 1 year.
Prepare a 10- to 12-slide program kickoff presentation for the project managers, project team members, and stakeholders.
Include speaker notes, as needed, to supplement content on the screen.
Determine the program’s goals and objectives. Describe how they align with the organization’s strategic objectives and create value for the organization.
Determine the project team structure. Define the teams and identify the roles they would satisfy. Explain how the structure you chose supports effective workflows for the program and the projects included.
Establish the program timeline and major milestones. Show how the projects in the program will run in relation to each other, whether consecutively or concurrently, or some variation of that so that the audience will be able to see how they’re interdependent. A high-level overview of the timeline and milestones is appropriate here.
Summarize current assumptions. Consider things you do to identify that influence your decisions, but you don’t necessarily have concrete data about. For example, one assumption might be that material and resource costs will remain consistent throughout the project.
Summarize any known risks. For the purposes of the program kickoff, this is not a risk assessment, but it is an opportunity to alert the audience to risks that you know right now.
Cite any references used and format citations and references according to APA guidelines.
Submit your assignment.
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From Project Management Case Studies (6th ed.) (pp. 187–191 and pp. 209–212), by H. Kerzner, 2022, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Copyright 2021 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Reprinted with permission.
