TenStep Project Management Overview

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• A short history of TenStep
• 1996 1999 Program Manager, Enterprise PMO at
  The Coca-Cola Company
• 2000 too much time on my hands!
• Wrote the core of the TenStep Project Management
  Process in three months
• Updated weekly as a hobby
• Started to draw traffic
• Hey this is neat
• What does it cost to license this process?

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• A short history of TenStep
• What does it cost to license this process?
• Companies
• Consultants
• Individuals
• Converted hobby into business
• Can I translate this process?
• What other products do you have?

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• Today
• TenStep available and supported in 14 languages
  around the world
• Training and consulting services
• 1700 TenStep licenses, 3200 total methodology
  product licenses
• Six major projects
• TenStep PB (PMBOK Framework)
• LifecycleStep Project Lifecycle Process
• PMOStep Project Management Office Framework
• PortfolioStep Portfolio Management Framework
• SupportStep Application Support Framework
• Two books, over 500 published columns
• 80,000 visits/month, 17,000 weekly email readers

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• Our relationship with PMI
• 2005 Distinguished Contribution Award
• PMI Global Registered Education Provider (REP)
• Licensed to sell TenStep PB (PMBOK Framework)
• Speaker, PMI chapter meetings
• Vendor, PMI Congress
• Member, PMI national
• Member, Atlanta chapter

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• TenStep Project Management Process - Contents
• Content in Word and html
• Processes
• Procedures (Project Management Procedures)
• Templates (hundreds)
• Best practices
• Supplemental content libraries
• Project Management Corner
• Quality Corner
• Education Corner
• Management Corner
• HR Corner

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• TenStep Project Management Process - Contents
• Visio flowchart models
• Training library
• Wideman Comparative Glossary of Project
  Management Terms

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• TenStep Project Management Process Model

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• TenStep Project Management Process - Principles
• Flexible and scalable, based on the size of the
  project
• Small methodology for small projects, large
  methodology for large project
• The higher the steps, the larger the project
• Applicable to all projects in all industries
• Stress proactive project management
• Plan up-front
• Define project management procedures up-front
• Anticipate rather than react

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• TenStep Project Management Process - Principles
• Apply regardless of the project life-cycle type
• Waterfall, iterative, RD, etc.
• Common needs to manage scope, risk, issues,
  quality, etc.
• Partnership between the project team and the
  client
• Project managers have sufficient authority
• Stress roles and role-based Project Management
  Procedures 

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• Define the Work
• Objectives
• Scope (in and out of scope)
• Estimated cost, duration, effort
• Risks
• Assumptions
• Approach
• Organization
• Approvals

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• Build the Workplan and Budget
• The plan (schedule) to complete the deliverables
• Activities, dependencies, resources, start and
  end dates
• Include project management work
• Understand critical path
• Detailed activities for the next three months,
  more vague further out

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• Manage the Workplan and Budget
• Review the workplan on a regular basis
• Manage workplan proactively
• Put remedies in place when falling behind
  deadline
• Manage costs proactively
• Put remedies in place when trending overbudget
• This is the integration step for the TenStep
  model
• Whats in the workplan gets done
• Everything integrates through the workplan

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• Manage Issues
• Issue Big Problem !!!
• A formally defined problem that will impede the
  progress of a project and the resolution of which
  is outside the control of the project team.
• Manage proactively
• Use problem resolution techniques

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• Manage Scope
• The essence of scope change management Managing
  scope is all about getting the sponsor to make
  the decisions that will result in changes to
  project scope.

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• Manage Communication
• Minimum
• Status reporting
• Status meetings
• More sophisticated and complex projects
• Communication Plan
• Compliance (Reporting, required data, status,
  push)
• Information (Education, how to, pull)
• Marketing (Sell, keep sold, push)

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• Manage Risk
• Risk is the probability of an undesirable event
  occurring and the significance of the
  consequences of that occurrence.
• Identify risks up front
• Analyze the risk (probability and consequences)
• Respond to the risk
• Monitor known risks and look for new risks
• Similar to PMBOK

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• Manage Quality
• Understand expectation of the customer for
  quality
• Put proactive plan in place to meet those
  expectations
• Similar to PMBOK

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• Manage Metrics
• We measure to
• Improve performance
• Declare success

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• The TenStep process covers
• Human resources management integrated
• The TenStep process does not cover
• Procurement management

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• Questions?