How to do more with less in Emergency Management:
Institute Fundamental Project Management
Project ManagementRobert E. Jones, MBA, PMP, CEM, MEPExercise & Training Program ManagerOffice of Emergency Management & Homeland Security1300 Quince Orchard Blvd.Gaithersburg, Maryland240-777-2398 (w)301-996-4834 (c)
PM Acronyms
AC BCWP
CPM DD
EV
FS
LOE
OBS
PMBOK
QC
RFP
SOW
TQM
VE
WBS
GERT
IFB
MSNDA
UB
XP
EM Acronyms
DOG ARIESBORSTARCMT
ERT-N-NCR
FCMSSR
GFIRST
HLS-CAM
ICPACC
JSERAKDP
LEMDP
MSLO
NDMSOSC
OMNCSPMTL
QRC
ROWPU
SENTINEL
TIPS
UICDS
VACIS
WAW
AS
XEDO
YCC
ZECP
Useful Acronyms
• ASTRO - Always Stating The Really Obvious • BDU - Brain Dead User• BOHICA - Bend Over, Here It Comes Again
Useful Acronyms
• CHAOS – Chief Has Arrived On Scene• DIMWIT – Don’t Interrupt Me While I’m Talking• DRT – Dead Right There
Useful Acronyms
• DRTTT - Dead Right There, There, and There• DRTAGTSTW - Dead Right There And Going To
Stay That Way• ESO - Equipment Superior to Operator
Useful Acronym
• FLOFTUS - First Lady OF The United States• FOBIO - Frequently Outwitted By Inanimate
Objects• HIVI - Husband Is Village Idiot
Useful Acronyms
• LAMP - Lower Academically-Minded Person• MUPPIE - Middle-aged Urban Professional• PIGINIMBY - Phew I'm Glad It's Not In My
Back-Yard
Useful Acronyms
• SNERT - Snot-Nosed Egotistical Rude Teenager• UBI - Unexplained Beer Injury• VIOT - Village Idiot On Tour
Presentation Objectives
• Discuss the basics of emergency management• Demonstrate how project management
enhances emergency management• Review simple, easy-to-use, project
management tools
Basic Models
• What did you learn when growing up that serves as a basic model for project management?
Project Management Basic Models
On Your Mark
Get Set
Go!
How did we do?
Decision Making Cycle
Deming Wheel – decision making
Project Management Cycle
Emergency Management Cycle
EM Business Continuity Cycle
BCM / COOPCYCLE
EM Exercise Cycle
Emergency Management Planning “P”
Meetings, Meetings, and more Meetings
Here’s another model
Who is an ideal project manager?
h What are the core competencies that you all believe are important?
Who is an ideal project manager?
h A leader who possesses managerial authority
h A matrix manager with absolute “Bottom Line” accountability
h A collaborative communicator
h An expert in implementation
h A Professional (or trained) Project Manager
PM Core Competencies
Competency Important / Extremely Important Percentages
Leadership 94.8Ability to communicate at multiple levels 93.5Verbal skills 87.2Written skills 87.1Attitude 85.3Ability to deal with ambiguity and change 82.9Work history 68.9Experience 67.1Ability to escalate 66.3Cultural fit 57.2Technical expertise 46.1Education 37.7Length of prior engagements 23.0Past team size 18.0PMP certification 15.4
February 2011, Project Management Journal, PMP Certification as a Core Competency: Necessary but not Sufficient by Jo Ann Starkweather and Deborah H. Stevenson, page 37.
Project Initiation Activity
• Hazard Mitigation Plan – What do you think are the high risk hazards in
Montgomery County?
Project Initiation Activity
• Hazard Mitigation Plan – High risk hazards in Montgomery County
• Hurricane / tropical Storms• Windstorms / thunderstorms• Tornado• Blizzard / ice storms• Drought
• Water supply disruption• Haz-Mat Fire• Haz-Mat Spills• Terrorism• Metrorail Emergency
Based on history in the county over the past 10 years, what is missing?
Project Initiation
• Project Charter– vision and objectives– scope of the project– critical project deliverables– customers and stakeholders– key roles and responsibilities– organizational structure– implementation plan– risks, issues and assumptions
Don’t go overboard on the charter. Sometimes a one page charter will do just fine!
Project Planning Activity
• Puzzle Exercise
7Ps
• Proper prior planning prevents piss poor performance.
• Your Task: How many Ps can you make?
40Ps
Procedural Practices and Protocols Permitting, Perspicuous Persistent Painstaking Proper Prior Planning and Purposeful Patient Preparation Potentially Promotes and Predicates Perfect Pristine Perspective, Principally Presenting Positive and Precise Performance, Perhaps Preventing, Primarily, Problematic, Pernicious Piss Poor Perfunctory Projects and Production Processes, and Perennially Plummeting Pre-tax Profits, Period.
Project Planning
• Emergency Operations Plan– What is in an Emergency Operations Plan?
EOP
• Basic Plan• Emergency Support Function Annexes• Incident Specific Annexes• Functional Annexes
Project Planning
• Project is broken into components• Create Project Plan
– Project Information– Executive Summary– Additional Project Requirements– Budget Overview– Project Team Members / contact information– Technical Project Deliverables– Project Plan Documents Summary
• Kick-Off Meeting held to review and finalize the Project Plan
Project Execution Activity
• Continuity of Operations (COOP)– What do we need to consider in maintaining
business continuity?
Project Execution Activity
• What do we need to consider in maintaining business continuity?
• Essential Functions• Interoperable communications• Delegations of authority• Alternate facilities• Vital records• Human capital• Computer disruptions
Project Execution• Each component broken into single task level issues
(Open Action Items)• Control
h OAI list published daily/weekly to an internal and external audience
OAI 01) Issue: (States a definitive action)Owner: (Only one owner assigned)Critical Resolution Date: (Date Item Due) Status: (Open, Closed, Deleted, Hold, Late)Update: (Any notes on issue status)
Project Execution Activity
Do we really need management intervention when things go wrong on our projects?
Project Execution
• Monitoringh Periodic Summary or Status report published to
stakeholders
Periodic Report:• Project Information (name, PM, report period, phone)• Project Status Summary (Green, Yellow, Red)• Key Accomplishments last period (concise and in priority order)• Upcoming tasks for this period (concise and in priority order)• Issues (List major open issues)
Project Closure Activity
• After Action Report – So how did we do?
• What went well?• What can we improve on?
Project Closure
• Ensure all deliverables are complete• Develop project closure documentation• Conduct a project closure meeting much like an After
Action Review (AAR)• Deliver customer survey (Hotwash)
Project Closure Report:• Identifies the project completion criteria• Lists any outstanding activities or deliverables• Creates a plan for passing deliverables • Plans the handover of project documentation• Closes supplier contracts and agreements• Releases project resources • Communicates the closure of the project
Project Tools Review
• Project Charter• Project Plan• Open Action Items• Status Report• Closure Report
EM + PM = Real Success
hA leader who possesses Managerial AuthorityhA matrix manager with Absolute “Bottom Line” AccountabilityhA collaborative communicatorhAn expert in implementationhA Professional (or trained) Project Manager
An Emergency Manager is or should be:
Leadership &
Communications
Emergency Management at Home
• Is your family prepared for an emergency?
What can you do?
• Learn About Hazards that Impact Montgomery County Residents
• Plan for Emergencies• Stay Informed When an Emergency Happens• Make a Kit• Get Involved
Brochures:1. Are you emergency ready?2. Every business should have a plan3. Alert Montgomery: an electronic
notification systemPlan 9 pen
Questions
