Assignments

Assignments

Lectures

Resources

1. Getting Started in Project Management
   Chapters 1 - 4
2. Read IT investment: making a business case – chapter 10 (handout)
    
3. Charter assignment - part 1

1. Five Dysfunctions of a Team

2. Join Gantthead

1. Read Agile Estimating and Planning, chapters 1-8
2. Read Getting Started in Project Management, chapter 11

1. Prepare Elevator Speech for your project
   •http://www.creativekeys.net/PowerfulPresentations/article1024.html 

   •Articulates in 1-2 minutes
     Who you are
     What your project is
     Who you are helping
     With what problem
     How company benefits
2. Prepare a Project Charter for your project
     Optional project charter template
3. Read Getting Started in Project Management, Chapters 5-10

1. For your project:
   1. Create Project Schedule
   2. Identify functional milestones and critical path

1. Read Remenyi, chapter 11
2. Real World Budget Tracking with MS Project (Gantthead)
3. Read Who's afraid of EVA? (Gantthead)
4. Read Agile Estimating and Planning, chapter 10
5. For your project:
   1. Create a risk management plan using this template (xls)

1. Read Agile Estimating and Planning, chapters 19-21
2. Read The Art of Project Management, chapters 10 & 13
3. For your project:
   1. Create a baseline budget for your project
   2. Prepare first iteration of your project Communication Plan to hand in

1. Present status report in class
   1. here is an update template - use this as your template, a starting point, or not at all - whatever works best for you and your project
2. Hand in updated project plan

1. Read Anatomy of a Retrospective
2. Research the Pareto theory and write a few paragraphs on the implications for your project to hand in

1. Read Agile & Iterative Development, chapter 11
2. Read Saying no, a short course for managers