Project Management

The SPPS Innovation Office provides strategic planning oversight and project management services districtwide to identify, prioritize and successfully execute the strategic plan and projects that are aligned to the district's mission and strategic goals.

Strategic Planning Oversight

The Innovation Office oversees the development and implementation of the district's strategic plan. This includes:

Facilitating plan development, communications and stakeholder engagement.
Supporting initiative action teams and others in developing and completing work plans.
Coordinating outcome reporting and evaluation.

Project management resources

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Project Management Services

The Innovation Office establishes and implements project management best practices districtwide. This includes:

Supporting effective and efficient project results through the use of project management processes and tools.
Defining and maintaining project management standards among departments that do not have project managers on staff.
Makes recommendations needed to formally manage projects and provides project templates and training assistance to departments.

support levels:

Full support: Innovation Office directly manages the project.
Consultant support: Innovation Office works in partnership with departments or teams as they manage projects through the project life cycle. (i.e. artifact creation, lifecycle phase checkpoints, etc.)
Resource support: Innovation Office provides templates and tools to departments or teams that support the project management process. (i.e. self-help, templates, etc.)

Project Management Templates:

PROJECT MANAGEMENT PROJECT LIFE CYCLE

The project life cycle provides a step by step framework for managing a project through the project origination, initiation, planning, delivering and closure phases.

Each project phase is associated with templates to help effectively manage your project. Choose the template(s) that will work best for your project.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

How do you define a project?

What is project management?

Why is project management important?

Who are project managers?

"Project managers are change agents: they make project goals their own and use their skills and expertise to inspire a sense of shared purpose within the project team. They enjoy the organized adrenaline of new challenges and the responsibility of driving business results. They are organized, passionate and goal-oriented people who understand what projects have in common, and their strategic role in how organizations succeed, learn and change."

Learn more at https://www.pmi.org/about/learn-about-pmi/who-are-project-managers

What do project managers do?

Project Managers are responsible for the entire project through the project life cycle phases: initiation, planning, delivery and closing.

The key activities include leading the project team to meet the project’s objectives and stakeholders’ expectations, keeping the project on time, organized and on budget.

“A good project manager is the glue that holds a project together and ensures quality and objectives are met on time and on budget.”

Learn more at https://www.lucidchart.com/blog/why-is-project-management-important