8:00 a.m.
Arrive at work; check new emails and voice messages. Of particular
importance is my on-line calendar of meetings for the day. Most
days involve a combination of meetings and developing project
documents such as Charters and Project Definitions.
9:00 a.m.
Chair a weekly project status meeting. My job is to ensure that
each project team member provides a crisp, accurate status update
on their portion of the project. I help team members decide on an
escalation path when they have issues meeting their deliverable
dates. Provide an informal update to the Project Business Owner.
10:00 a.m.
In preparation for other meetings this week, I draft an agenda and
gather premail material that needs to be sent to project members
for review prior to the meeting. I make phone calls to those
providing premail documents and we agree on a timeline for
distribution.
11:00 a.m.
An issue has come up on the technology side of the project
regarding the software that we are implementing across the Bank. It
could have a significant impact to the critical path of the project
timeline. The technology project manager and I discuss the
situation and decide that we need to call a quick project meeting
together with key resources including the vendor of the software.
We meet using a conference bridge to discuss the issue, and decide
on next steps.
12:00 p.m.
Head to lunch but back in plenty of time to get ready for a 1:00pm
meeting that I will be chairing.
1:00 p.m.
Open the conference line for the meeting, and note attendance.
Today we are discussing the data fields that need to be provisioned
in the software application so the technology team can configure
the application. Need to pursuade some team members so we can reach
consensus on the mandatory fields to keep the project moving ahead.
2:00 p.m.
As a follow up to this morning's meeting, I consolidate all of the
status updates into a single report which I provide to the Project
Sponsor. Together the Sponsor and I will review the report and
decide if any changes need to be made. I circulate the report to
all of the Stakeholders who have an interest or are impacted by the
project.
3:00 p.m.
Coffee with a new member to the project team. Help them understand
the objectives of the project, and discuss some of the resource
issues they are having in their area that will impact their ability
to deliver.
>4:00 p.m.
Prepare for a Lessons Learned session that I will be facilitating
tomorrow. Read the pertinent documents from the project so that I
have an idea what the project is about, and can ask probing
questions.
5:00 p.m.
Submit an expense report for one of my projects, and log off the
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