STUDY GUIDELINE & INSTRUCTIONS

PROGRESS

RESULTS

GRADE

CRITICAL SUCCESS FACTORS SURVEY

Critical Factor #1: Organization Readiness
Sufficient awareness of how use of custom fields in schedules is planned for within the student's organization

Are project managers in your organization using custom fields in their schedules?

What importance does senior management place on customizing schedules to make them more meaningful?

How often are custom fields used in project schedules by project teams in your organization?

In my organization, project managers and sponsors know how to interpret the custom fields in schedules.

 

Critical Factor #2: Project Manager Readiness
Readiness of individual project managers toward utilization of custom fields

Project managers in my organization know how to create custom fields in schedules.

What importance do project managers in my organization place on using custom fields to better track work in their schedules?

Project schedules and custom field indicators are used regularly in project team meetings as a tool to track and measure progress.

How often do use custom fields to track items of interest to stakeholders and senior management?

 

Critical Factor #3: Software and Organization Expectations
Expectations of schedule management outputs and visualizations containing custom fields

There are standards for custom fields in my organization and project managers follow them.

What importance does senior management in your organization place on enhancing project schedules effectively with custom fields?

Can senior management in your organization read and understand custom fields as they are intended to be used?

My organization would be open to ideas like using custom fields to perform a what‐if analysis by creating custom flags that correspond to different scenarios and flagging tasks and activities on/off based on the scenario.

 

Critical Factor #4: Training Outcomes Expectations
Expectations of this training in terms of benefits/outcomes

You are comfortable and adept at creating custom fields in Microsoft Project using proven methods.

The more you understand about the value and use of custom fields, you will be able to more effectively discuss and promote their use within your organization.

If you were convinced that better use of custom fields would help you manage your projects more effectively, how often would you use it?

When you complete this course that better prepares you to create and use custom fields in Microsoft Project and prove their value, you will win the approval of senior management.

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