SIMS 290: Effective Project Management

Effective Project Management SIMS 290-11 Schedule (additional readings will be assigned)
Class	Topics	Due
Jan 23	Introduction Intro to class · Content · Introductions · Administrivia Intro to Project Management · Projects vs. Operations · Success vs. Failure · Exercise
Jan 30	Team / Leadership Leadership Styles 5 Dysfunctions of a Team Building a team – people and culture Exercise	assignment
Feb 6	Initiation / Charter / POS Project success factors Project Initiation Business Case Project Charters Project charter creates contract ‘Charter vs ‘POS’ Review of charter assignment Identification of stakeholders - expanded view Remaining initiation tasks	assignment
Feb 13	Project Kick-off, Communication & Organization Class delivers elevator speeches Communication Responsibility matrix Meetings Collaboration	assignment
Feb 20	Requirements Review / discuss Charter / POS assignment Overview of requirements Requirements negotiation vs gathering Class exercise Requirements – Prioritizing and Iterating Design Analysis / Alternatives review	assignment
Feb 27	WBS Class delivers Elevator Speeches Translating Business Requirements to WBS WBS – high level to detailed Activity Sequencing Introduction of estimating Activity duration Lifecycle review · Traditional vs Adaptive vs Extreme · Examples of differing Requirements & Planning methodologies · User stories · Ideal Days · Planning Poker	assignment
Mar 6	Sizing / Financials Project schedule – begin w/high level What are project financials? Why care about project financials? Creating a cost baseline MS Project demo	assignment
Mar 13	Critical Chain & Risk Analysis Discuss Critical Chain and Critical Path Schedule compression Developing & maintaining risk management plan Calculate probability, impact, detectability and importance Establishing triggers & actions Defining options - avoidance, mitigation, transference and acceptance Review March 20 assignments	assignment
Mar 20	Metrics/Monitoring /Tracking Metrics Change management · baselines · benchmarks · constraints Tracking and status reports · Automated time/task tracking · Status communications Presenting and Presentations	assignment
Mar 27	Spring Break
Apr 3	Status Presentations	assignment
Apr 10	Retrospectives guest lecturer	assignment
Apr 17	Problem-Solving Decision spider, fish-bone, six hats, diagram Pareto People issues - professionally immature Difficult conversations	assignment
Apr 24	Lifecycle Review Traditional, Adaptive, Extreme - contrast and comparison Quality control · Quality benchmarking · Quality flowcharting Closure / PMBOK Project Closure Administrative Closure Contract Closure Team Recognition Additional releases PMBOK Overview	assignment
May 1	Final Presentations	assignment
May 8	Final Presentations
May 15	Potluck, Panel???