
Lectures
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Schedule
Assignments
Lectures
Resources
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Class 1
- Course objectives, grading, methodology
- Project Failure and Success
- Project Initiation
- Business Cases
- Charters
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slides
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- assignment
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Class 2
- Project success factors
- Review of charter assignment
- Difficult conversations
- 'elevator' speeches
- Issues log
- Lessons learned/best practices
- Creating project team
- Requirements gathering
- Prioritization matrix
- Traceability log
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slides (ppt)
- assignment
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Class 3
- Requirements negotiation
- Leadership
- Five Dysfunctions of a Team
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slides (ppt)
- assignment
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Class 4
- Responsibility Matrix
- Communication Plan
- Requirements Negotiation
- User Stories
- Ideal Days
- Planning Poker
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slides (ppt)
- assignment
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Class 5
- Elevator speeches
- Requirements - prioritization & iterating
- Project deliverables & documentation
- Lifecycle review
- Analysis/Alternatives review
- Estimating
- Work Breakdown Structure
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slides (ppt)
- assignment
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Class 6
- Business requirements
- task identification
- activity sequencing
- activity duration
- MS Project demo
- Project Schedule refinement
- PERT
- Complexity
- Kano model
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slides (ppt)
- assignment
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Class 7
- Critical Path
- Schedule Compression
- Critical Chain
- Risk Management
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slides (ppt)
- assignment
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Class 8
- Communication Plan
- Project Financials
- Cost Baseline
- Problem identification/solution techniques
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slides (ppt)
- assignment
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Class 9
- Six Thinking Hats
- Project plan execution
- controlling
- change management
- prioritization & ranking
- metrics
- Presentations
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slides (ppt)
- assignment
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Class 10 |
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Class 11
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Class 12
- Feedback on presentations
- Pareto
- Risk Management Planning
- Scott Berkun - making things happen
- Final Paper
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slides (ppt)
- assignment
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Class 13
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