Project Manage Your Life

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Project Manage Your Life

• Marilyn Mooers
• May 26, 2004

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Marilyn Mooers

• 1981 2001
• 20 years at Nortel
• 2002-2004
• Executive MBA
• Own business

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Agenda

• Tell you a story
• Relate it to the PMBOK
• Make you think about what you can do
• Introduce you to The Success Formula

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Good News or Bad News

• I am going to start with either
• good news or bad news..which
• do you want to hear first?

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• I am not going to tell you anything today that
  you did not already know.
• I am not going to tell you anything today that
  you did not already know.

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• You scope, manage and plan out
• each detail at work..what
• about the rest of your life?

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Ever thought about

• Changing careers
• Going back to school
• Starting your own business
• When you might be able to retire

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We have the skills

• To plan out each of those items
• that we all have thought about.
• Project Managers above and
• beyond all others have these
• skills

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What is a Project?

• A project is a temporary endeavor undertaken to
  create a unique product or service1 1
  PMBOK Guide 2000 Edition
• What is more unique than creating a product from
  your life desires?

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What is Project Management?

• Project management is the application of
  knowledge,
• skills, tools, and techniques to project
  activities to meet
• project requirements. Project management is
• accomplished through the use of the processes
  such
• as initiating, planning, executing, controlling
  and
• closing.
• The project team manages the work of the
• projects, and the work typically involves
• Competing demands for scope, time, cost, risk
• and quality
• Stakeholders with differing needs and
  expectations
• Identified requirements1
• 1 PMBOK Guide 2000 Edition

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The Story

• Links to the processes
• initiating,
• planning,
• executing,
• controlling
• and closing.

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Process

• A series of actions bringing
• about a result.

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Have a Goal

• Before we can start this of course you must have
  a goal in mindwe are all human and we all dream
  and I know each one of us has a goal inside that
  sometimes only we know about

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How to determine your goal?

• Ask yourself questions
• What does the next 20 years look like?
• What if I got laid off?
• What would make me marketable?
• What do I want?

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Initiating

• authorizing the project or phase.
• 1 PMBOK Guide 2000 Edition

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Initiating Process

• write it down
• where you can see it
• this reminds you the goal is real
• read everything you can on the subject
• This is your personal authorization that there is
  indeed a project to be accomplished.

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For example

• After my questions I wrote down
• MBA
• Brand new job

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Planning Process

• defining and refining objectives and selecting
  the best of the alternative courses of action to
  attain the objectives that the project was
  undertaken to address
• 1 PMBOK Guide 2000 Edition

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Planning Process

• tell everyone you know
• this goal is now public
• sense of pride to complete
• You told everyone that is what you were going to
  do!

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Executing Process

• coordinating people and other resources to carry
  out the plan
• 1 PMBOK Guide 2000 Edition

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Executing Process

• Get it all together
• Money
• Time schedule
• FAMILY SUPPORT

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Controlling Process

• ensuring the project objectives are met by
  monitoring and measuring progress regularly to
  identify variances from the plan so that the
  corrective action can be taken when necessary.
• 1 PMBOK Guide 2000 Edition

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Controlling side note

• Anyone thinking about doing an MBA should know
  that about 75 of all the work is done in groups.
  
• Believe me.your group lets you know if you have
  a slippage or variance in the schedule!!!!

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Closing Process

• formalizing acceptance of the project or phase
  and bringing it orderly to an end.
• 1 PMBOK Guide 2000 Edition

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Closure

• Graduation!!!!
• MBA, PMP beside my name

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Principle used

• Keep It Simple
• This is after all for you and you dont have to
  create the detailed reports..unless you want too
• Dont get caught up in the details instead of
  getting things done

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Project Plan

• Guide project execution
• Document assumptions
• Document decisions
• Facilitate communication
• Define key reviews timing etc
• Provide a baseline for progress
• Reworded from PMBOK 2000

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Next Goal

• Get a job
• Not just any job but start my own business.
• I had found a new direction and interest in
  Corporate Finance and Accounting in my MBA

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Initiating, Planning..

• I read everything I could
• I found a mentor
• I wrote a Business Plan
• Sometimes just writing the plan can tell you
  volumes

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There it is again

• The word PLAN
• Now it is a part of my life in how I approach
  what I want to accomplish
• AND
• It is what I do
• It is all about what a PM does

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Financial Consultant

• I create plans
• How to retire
• Save for childs education
• Buy a house
• Create an investment strategy
• Save on taxes
• Spend money on fun things..

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It really is all a plan

• I use my PM skills every day
• These are the skills that we all have
• The key is to not only recognize you have them to
  use in your personal life..but to actually use
  them.

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Education

• I firmly believe that you empower yourself if you
  educate yourself.
• I am currently back in school
• Certified Financial Planner
• Certified Senior Advisor
• French language

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Reading..

• In my April email book reviews I came across an
  interesting author and went to his website
• I found a 33 page book that is so close to
  everything I have just told you I had to share it
• The Success Formula by Bob Burg

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The Success Formula

• It all begins with desire.
• Principle 1 Seek out and Find the Information
• Principle 2 Apply the Information Immediately
• Principle 3 Be Persistent

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• Listen, learn, have fun and make a difference in
  peoples lives

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One last reading note

• March 2004 PM Network Magazine
• Article Show Integrity, p.22 based on
• the question What is the biggest
• mistake a project manager can make?
• Answer-reminder One of the great
• paradoxes the need for a project manager to
• have total commitment to the project, while
• still fulfilling duties to family, church,
• community and self.

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Quote for today

• "A person who aims at nothing is sure to hit it."
  Anonymous

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THANK-YOU!!!

• I have some handouts at the front with some
  web-site information on
• UofO Executive MBA program
• Entrepreneurship Centre
• The Success Formula
• Contact me for details
• 613-798-7700
• Marilyn.Mooers_at_investorsgroup.com