PPA™ Facilitation Sessions
PPA™ Facilitation Sessions are designed to bring an intact team and a CPM facilitator together for a working session. The concepts, practices and tools utilized in these workshops feature the practices of the Center for Project Management PPA™.

CPM offers three types of facilitation sessions:

Pre-Launch Session

The hallmark of Pre-Launch is due diligence. The primary question here is—are we doing the right thing? The key deliverables of this stage are a project description (including SMART business objectives and measurable success factors), a list of stakeholders, complexity and risk assessments, a scope statement, and the development of a project charter.

2-5 Day Duration

Launch Session

Launch stage activities focus on developing a comprehensive plan (consisting of phases or time boxes, deliverables, tasks, networks, responsibilities, and milestones, identifying the project sponsor, defining the project organization, mapping team skills, and developing accurate effort, cost, and duration estimates.

2-5 Day Duration

Post-Project Implementation Review Sessions

Much can be learned, and used to improve future projects, if time is spent reviewing projects after they have been implemented or canceled.  The key to this is to conduct the review in a reasonable time after implementation or cancellation (and with the appropriate customer and team resources involved).  You don't want to have the debrief too close to the implementation as people are still doing "clean up work" and you don't want to wait too long as people start drifting to other assignments/projects and tend to start forgetting the details.

2-5 Day Duration