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Title: 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

3
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?

5
  • 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

8
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?

10
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

29
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

30
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.

33
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

34
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

36
  • Listen, learn, have fun and make a difference in
    peoples lives

37
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.

38
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
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