Project Management for Trainers: Stop "Winging It" and Get Control of Your Training Projects

Practical Exercises

Now practice creating an outsourcing plan. Again, think about your own project and consider some aspect of your project that could be outsourced. Go back and review the documents that you created during the define and plan phases for your own project, and determine what the ramifications would be to these documents. How would they change?

Exercise 8.1. Create a relationship matrix.

Thinking about your own project, create a relationship matrix detailing the interactions between supplier and internal staff (see figure 8.5 for an example). Write the name of each supplier and company department working on the project in a separate box. Draw lines between the boxes to show the necessary lines of communication.

Exercise 8.2. ...