Personal Goals - Project Management for Road Racing

Previously I’d enumerated my professional goals for using an event at which I volunteer as a showcase of Project Management lessons. Reading the PMBOK® Guide made me understand how I could demonstrate my project knowledge abilities and applications prior to taking the certification exam, and use those lessons to benefit an event that is very dear to me.

These lessons in Project Management are more than just passing a test. Indeed I already have skills managing projects from previous work experience. These skills have been built on a career as a functional and operational manager As I embark on this new phase of my career, the 5KPM project emerged as a way to way to demonstrate those skills.

In this way, my professional and personal goals are aligned. If I properly apply the lessons in the PMBOK Guide to the planning of the Closter 5k, I’ll not only reinforce lessons necessary to pass the PMP certification, but I’ll also create a reference point for future similar road racing events.

Certainly the organizing committee has notes on events from prior years. But now the entire processes and will be systematically better planned, tracked, organized, and executed. My personal goals are listed here:

• Better plan and conduct my town’s 5k event.
• Create Project Management related systems as best I understand them, and test-drive these lessons in order to plan and manage a successful event.
• Incorporate lessons into future event iterations.
• Keep these developed project knowledge processes and results in one place for reference during future events.
• Be a resource for other race directors who are looking to make their events a project with agreed-upon processes tools and techniques.
• Set a direction for future event-support growth.
• Increase efficiency of planning for town events. (Time, budget, and resources are always limited by dint of the volunteer nature of the organization and project.)
• Give back to the road racing community.
• Enhance the planning of race direction through Project Management principles.
• Expand volunteer role to help with other events using tools developed through this project.

As always, your feedback is appreciated, so please 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/