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Jan 17th |
Intro, Objectives & Structure, Schedule Requirements of the class (participation and presentation) What is a Professional? Selling yourself Presentations – Basics |
Prepare 3 minutes on yourself: education, experience, skills. Who are you? |
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Jan 24th |
Present Project Proposals |
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Jan 31st |
Consulting Skills: Peter Block, "F/C/R" Assessment and process, client relationships |
Evaluate the Case study. Findings vs. Conclusions vs. Recommendations |
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Feb 7th |
Interviewing and Hiring Creating a job, interview process Questions, Legal issues Team interviewing |
Interviewing: one-on-one interviews, with 4 job descriptions available. Practice telling your story, get feedback. |
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Feb 14th |
Software Development Life Cycle (or Software Development Process) Roles and Responsibilities of the Team |
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Feb 21st |
Language of Project Management: tasks, milestones, resources, dependencies, critical path, contingencies Real-world issues in Project Management |
Green's Spinach Lasagna |
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Feb 28th |
Effective Meetings & Communication Lecioni, et. al. |
Consulting Team work session |
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Mar 7th |
Effective Presentations: Tufte & Zelazny Death by PowerPoint |
Consulting Team work session: Visualizations |
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Mar 14th |
People Management: feedback & evaluation, goal setting, SMART goals, line manager primer |
Consulting Team work session |
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Mar 21st |
Software Testing |
Consulting Team work session: Bug Scrub |
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Mar 28th |
Language of Money: budgeting, OpEx/CapEx, FTE, loaded costs, NPV, EBITDA, "what does stuff cost?", outsourced services, hosted solutions |
Consulting Team work session: budgeting |
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Apr 4th |
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Apr 11th |
Legal Issues w/ Pamela Federman |
Document Review (contracts, agreements) |
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Apr 18th |
Obstacles: getting stuck and unstuck: relationships, project mgmt, people & politics, technology, clarity |
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Apr 25th |
Practice Final Project Presentations |
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May 2nd |
Practice Final Project Presentations |
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