Project Management Boot Camp for Entertainment Managers, Part Three: Workflow

LDI’s Project Management Boot Camp presents several proven templates that will improve your ability to track and manage any size project. Taught by Rohan Garricks, a trained project manager, practicing educator, and a 20-plus year entertainment management practitioner, the LDI2018 course demonstrates the use of several tools and techniques to assist you with managing your projects in a more systematic way, resulting in increased success. The principles taught are immediately applicable and will result in an increased level of control over all aspects of your projects. It will also show how to assess your progress and alter your approach to keep projects on budget and on time at the prescribed level of quality.

Session 3, Workflow, takes a serious look at your workflow and how to measure and ultimately control your progress on projects. The session discusses the following:

  • Tips on how to manage and maximize team dynamics.
  • Management of your workflow as a Project Manager with detailed use of flexible templates that can be personalized for managing schedules, scope breakdown and budget.
  • Increase efficiency in an age of technology.
  • How to create and use your own visual tools to measure project progress to know where increased/decreased focus may be required while executing a project?
  • Look at the power of templates in ensuring increased efficiently with project experience.
  • Microsoft Projects, an introduction to the best ways to use this tool.
  • Using Microsoft Projects template including templates for projects with fixed end, fixed start dates.
  • Using Microsoft excel to produce templates that are specific for your situation.

Check out Part OnePart Two, and Part Four, and watch Part Three below. Stay tuned for sessions on Closing a Project and Putting It All Together.