Professional Goals - Project Management For Road Racing

During the prior post I introduced the Closter 5k project and broadly outlined my professional and personal goals. Earning my PMP certification and getting a job is the greatest professional project driver. This post details the professional goals.

Professional Goals

• Use my town’s 5k run/walk event as a basis for a sample project with three core connections:
• study aid,
• professional development tool, and
• a durable event document.
• Achieve Project Management certification in Q3 2017.
• Connect the lessons from the Project Management Book of Knowledge to the practice of planning and executing the Closter 5k as a project.
• Distinguish me in a field of PM aspirants and job competitors.
• Demonstrate my work within the structures of the PM processes as I see them (ahead of taking the classes) so that I can:
• Expose my work to criticism
• Learn lessons to improve the project, and incorporate these lessons into the project planning and management
• Learn how to fail quickly, and move on after applying appropriate with remedies
• Share project as a case study after joining the local PMI chapter.

From what I've learned during the past seven years as a volunteer and co-race director for the Closter 5k, I can say that there has always been an informal charter. By “project-izing” the event, a formal example of a charter will be produced. The event has very real customers, the hundreds of people who show up on race day. The Closter 5k has very real  work that needs to be planned, and tasks which can be divided into small components (Work Breakdown Structures). It has procurements. It has risks. And a lot more.

That is why the different chapters from the PMBOK® Guide will be mapped to the relevant elements of the Closter 5k. I will go as far as possible into the weeds with the project scope, risk register, and other logs, plans, charts, inputs, and outputs. Through project management I’m going to push the event planning to be a better documented, more granular project than we’ve ever done. Look for my personal goals post next.

In the meantime, comment, or use this info to review, provide feedback, and to get in touch:

Stephen Miller’s LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephenlornemiller

Contact Email: Millerslm@gmail.com

5KPM Linked Group: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/8591204

5KPM Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/5KPM-1835352230014496/

Closter 5k Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ClosterLaborDay5k/

Closter 5k on Closter Recreation Website: http://www.closterrec.com/closter-5k-runwalk.html