D.B. Crane and Associates, Inc.

Planning & Control
Education Microsoft® Project
Education Facilitated Project
Start-Ups Mentoring
 

Microsoft® Project
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Mentoring

Mentoring is intended to be a follow on to Facilitated Project Start-ups. Although the actual frequency and length of time are decided on a case by case basis, initially it should occur weekly. This ensures that the client team is in fact gathering and recording actual progress for the project as well as analyzing variance. Along with this, as changes occur, some re-planning may be necessary. As with the facilitated planning, the goal is knowledge transfer. At some point, the client’s SME’s should be able to take over this control function. When it is agreed to the client’s satisfaction that this point has arrived the frequency of the mentoring visits should be reduced to monthly and ultimately to something less than that leading to the point where client has achieved maturity and mentoring services are no longer needed.