February Meeting
Special All Day Session on Project Management
As our systems become more and more complex so do the projects to implement them. Ensuring project success requires the ability to manage your projects wisely. Developing project management skills is essential.
The goal of this all day workshop is to introduce you to the principals and best practices of Project Management. Experts in the field will guide you through the complete life cycle of a sample project, from concept to closeout. You will gain experience with the tools used by the project management industry.
Workshops like this typically cost hundreds of dollars but SMPTE is providing this for the cost of your lunch and materials. Only $30 for early registration and $40 for late registration (after February 14th). This fee covers your lunch and materials. (Break refreshments supplied by our sponsors).
This special seminar will begin at 9AM, Saturday February 21, and conclude at 5PM. The location will be the Turner Techwood campus, Building 1015. Please note that lunch, snacks, and course materials will be provided.
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Please thank our sponsors for this event:
Canon Electrorack Grass Valley
Tentative Agenda
9:00AM 10:00AM Workshop Intro / Project Management Overview by Paula Wagner
10:00AM - 11:30AM Project Charter by Dave Slack
This section will be broken into 3 parts:
- Presentation – what is a charter w/ sample template
- Small group exercise to write a charter (sample project)
- Discussion of exercise
11:30AM - 12:15PM Lunch
12:15PM 2:30PM Building a Project Schedule by David Mook
This section will be broken into 3 parts:
- Presentation – How to build a schedule
- Small group exercise in building a schedule
- Discussion of exercise
- Use of scheduling software (MS Project)
2:30PM - 2:45PM Break
2:45PM - 4:30PM Execution and Closeout by Jack Linder
- Best practices during execution (communications, conducting meetings, etc.)
- The closeout – importance, points to cover.
- Where to go for further information
4:30AM - 5:00PM Discussion and Questions
A "Bonus" (Second) SBE Meeting of the Month
This meeting will be held at 7 PM on Tuesday, February 24th, 2009. Scott Fybush is a writer, news reporter and an overall Renaissance Man. Among his activities, he travels around North America documenting broadcast towers and transmitter sites. Scott runs a number of websites providing news and reference information. You can find them at www.fybush.com. Scott will be giving a presentation based on his massive collection of tower sites. Scott will have copies of his famous tower calendars for sale. There will be a pizza dinner, sponsored by SBE Chapter 5. See the SBE Website for additional information on this special meeting.
January Meeting
Thanks to Michelle Munson, President and Co-Founder of Aspera, Inc. for an excellent presentation and for providing dinner
for the Atlanta Section. Her presentation can be downloaded here. More information on Aspera can be found here.
And also thanks to Jack Linder for planning this meeting.
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www.Atlanta-SMPTE.org
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