Suggest a Topic
Our workshops and forums are intended to be a learning resource for the UChicago project management (PM) community. As such, we welcome and encourage ideas from our PM Community of Practice members. We have received the following topic suggestions:
Stakeholders
- Identifying stakeholders
- Managing stakeholders
- Engaging stakeholders
Resources
- Resource planning
- Creating budgets
Management
- Change Management
- Operations Management applied to IT Projects
- How to roll out a new product or service
Project Communication
- Online documentation and communication for a project
- Email templates & creating great content for internal and external communication
- Knowledge documentation
- Best practices for presenting reports/data to management
Vendors
- RFP Process
- Best practices- working with vendors
- SOW templates
- Project Management and Software Acquisition decisions
How to…
- Using pivot tables
- Creating workflows
- Creating visual progress charts
- Documenting processes
- Testing a process before rollout
- Taking notes (project scribe)
PM Basics
- What you should know about Project Management if you never want to be a PM
- How to develop milestones
- How to create and manage a project team
- Effective kickoff meetings
- How to integrate principles of PM into productivity
- What is the right level of detail for a plan (WBS)
- How to apply PM principles to smaller, non-PMO projects
Agile
- Kanban
- Agile budgeting
Tools
- Microsoft Project or similar tools, Visio and other planning tools
- Tools to schedule tasks reminders for the person responsible for the tasks
- Tools for tracking project tasks
- Pros / cons of using excel vs MS project