How Best to Conduct a General Detailed Scheduling Workshop? Please help with your input!

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You need an Interactive Planning Session with the team. If you want advice drop me your email address.

Don't run it yourself - get a facilitator in. It will allow everybody to contribute in a non-confrontational way and hpefully you will be free to steer discussions to the conclusions you want. 

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Seems like a good setup.

In my experience I would introduce the workshop with an open dialog about why you are making a schedule (it can strengthen participation and team spirit, give responsibility, show work in a way so people understands each other’s needs, get a bigger understanding of where once work fit into a bigger picture, etc...), and which value it has in the project (it visualize the project goal, give status update, visualize responsibility, value in continues updates, etc...). 

An unformal chat about this in the beginning will get everyone on the same page, at the same time as they understand why the schedule you are making matters.

In the end of the workshop, it might med smart to conclude how the schedule shall be followed up. If you don’t talk about that in the workshop it can be a hassle to get everyone aligned on updates.

- Roy

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1 year 8 months
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Seems like a good setup.

In my experience I would introduce the workshop with an open dialog about why you are making a schedule (it can strengthen participation and team spirit, give responsibility, show work in a way so people understands each other’s needs, get a bigger understanding of where once work fit into a bigger picture, etc...), and which value it has in the project (it visualize the project goal, give status update, visualize responsibility, value in continues updates, etc...). 

An unformal chat about this in the beginning will get everyone on the same page, at the same time as they understand why the schedule you are making matters.

In the end of the workshop, it might med smart to conclude how the schedule shall be followed up. If you don’t talk about that in the workshop it can be a hassle to get everyone aligned on updates.

- Roy