Tuesday, April 25, 2017

Scope Management Starts Here - 5KPM For Road Racing


Admittedly the Scope Management Plan is quite daunting. But even though more has to be done to complete the plan, some of the work has already been done. The stakeholder register and the responsibility matrix have all been defined, created, and posted in prior blogs. At least now the plan has started and the project better defined.

In other news, the PM class finished last weekend, so I'm set for a certificate at least in Project Management. There's a week lag before the boot camp starts up and I'll dive even deeper into my studies. 

For now, there's the start of the Project Management Plan here. 
Scope Management Plan

Management Approach


The purpose of this scope management plan is to set forth the plans and procedures for defining, developing, monitoring, controlling, changing, implementing and verifying the 2017 Edition of the Closter 5k as a project. It’s the intent of scope management plan to ensure the completion of all the work required, and only the work required, to complete the project successfully.
The project manager will assume overall responsibility for project scope management. The people listed below will assume the following scope management responsibilities:

Names /  Roles
Responsibilities
Project Manager
Stephen L Miller
Project Sponsor
Closter Recreation Commission
Project Team Lead
Stephen L Miller
Project Team Members
MAD





Scope Development


Sources

The scope of this project is defined in the Scope Definition section, below. Development of the project scope began with an examination of the following sources:



Scope Definition


The project scope baseline is comprised of the project scope statement, the work breakdown structure and the WBS dictionary, below.

Project Scope Statement


The Closter 5k Organizing Committee will conduct its annual 5k-running/walking event and kid’s fun run on Sunday, September 3, 2017. The event set up through clean up is anticipated to be between 6AM through 11AM, with the 5k beginning at 9AM. The event is held in the rain, but not if there is lightning. There is no rain-date or re-schedule date. This 37th annual 5k event will host about 200 participants from town and the surrounding community. The fun run will host approximately 20 participants. Local PD, EMS, volunteers, a timing company, sponsors, and the participants are all stakeholders in this event. Participants will pay an entry fee, and be rewarded with finish-line food, a t-shirt, and prizes in some cases. Volunteers will aid with same-day participant registration, course direction, and full site clean up.

Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)


Click here to view the WBS.
As always, please get in touch via one of these methods: Stephen Miller’s LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephenlornemiller
Contact Email: Millerslm@gmail.com


Tuesday, April 18, 2017

Work Breakdown Structure - 5KPM Project Management For Road Racing

It's time to get back to the nuts and bolts of the Project Plan in this 5KPM series of posts. To that end, I've begun work on the project scope document. An element of the document is the WBS, or Work Breakdown Structure, which reduces each element of work to its smallest components. Maybe that isn't quite the case in this WBS, but it's a fairly realistic list of the steps necessary to conduct the event. 

Click here to be taken to the WBS, a shared document in Google Docs. 

As always, you're invited to get in touch via these methods.

Stephen Miller’s LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephenlornemiller
Contact Email: Millerslm@gmail.com


Tuesday, April 11, 2017

Podcast Cameo - The 5KPM Project Management For Road Racing Gets a Big Time Boost

Well that was awesome. Today I spoke with an inspiring figure in Project Management, Andy Kaufman. He hosts a podcast called the People and Projects Podcast which has become a go-to listen as I continue to immerse myself in things project-management. Andy always closes his podcasts inviting listeners to connect.

But who am I at this point, half way through the PM class and months away from hopefully being ready to sit for the certification? Still, I felt compelled to write to him last week. His podcast is so chock full of interesting information and insight that I can't listen to it at the typical 1.5x speed as I usually do for other spoken word podcasts. I don't want to miss the content Andy provides, so I slow the listening speed back down to 1x speed. Well, I wrote this to Andy and he replied not only with appreciation but with an offer to provide a listener introduction to both the audio and video versions of his podcasts. During our discussions about the scripts, he even allowed me to mention the 5KPM - Project Management for Road Racing group I've got going in LinkedIn and in this blog.

The conversation was short, and taken up by me recording the intro (the videos were done on Sunday), but the real takeaway was how genuinely Andy was engaged in my path to PM and my goals within the PM profession and community.

When the People and Projects Podcast with my audio and video come out I'll post the links in this blog and in the group.

As always, you're invited to get in touch via these methods.

Stephen Miller’s LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephenlornemiller
Contact Email: Millerslm@gmail.com


Tuesday, April 4, 2017

Putting The Plan To The Test - Early - 5KPM - Project Management For Road Racing

Well, it looks like the accumulated work for the 5KPM - Project Management for Road Racing will be put to work sooner than later. Instead of waiting until the Sunday of Labor Day weekend, the traditional day of our event, another 5k is being conducted in June. This event is a fundraiser for a local teacher who has cancer. Although I'm not on the organizing committee of this June event, two of the volunteers have already met with me and my cohort to discuss how the event is typically planned and conducted.

Having the organizational experiences mapped out through the project plan has already helped the organizers of this event. Indeed I'll continue to be a source of information when asked. And I've received an unexpected bonus. That bonus is to be able to run the Closter 5k course in an event for a time. Since 2011 I've volunteered for the event, but haven't run it in "anger" after that first one in 2010. Now I get to run the event with friends and family - and still be the volunteer for 36th running of the Closter 5k in September. It'll work out all around!