Lectures

Schedule

 

Assignments

 

Lectures

 

Resources

 

 

 

Class 1
 

  • Course objectives, grading, methodology
  • Project Failure and Success
  • Project Initiation
  • Business Cases
  • Charters
  • slides (ppt)
  • assignment
  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
  • slides (ppt)
  • assignment
  Class 3
  • Requirements negotiation
  • Leadership
  • Five Dysfunctions of a Team
  • slides (ppt)
  • assignment
  Class 4
  • Responsibility Matrix
  • Communication Plan
  • Requirements Negotiation
  • User Stories
  • Ideal Days
  • Planning Poker
  • slides (ppt)
  • assignment
  Class 5
  • Elevator speeches
  • Requirements - prioritization & iterating
  • Project deliverables & documentation
  • Lifecycle review
  • Analysis/Alternatives review
  • Estimating
  • Work Breakdown Structure
  • slides (ppt)
  • assignment
  Class 6
  • Business requirements
    • task identification
    • activity sequencing
    • activity duration
  • MS Project demo
  • Project Schedule refinement
    • PERT
    • Complexity
    • Kano model
  • slides (ppt)
  • assignment
  Class 7
  • Critical Path
  • Schedule Compression
  • Critical Chain
  • Risk Management
  • slides (ppt)
  • assignment

 

  Class 8
  • Communication Plan
  • Project Financials
  • Cost Baseline
  • Problem identification/solution techniques
  • slides (ppt)
  • assignment

 

  Class 9
  • Six Thinking Hats
  • Project plan execution
    • controlling
    • change management
    • prioritization & ranking
    • metrics
  • Presentations
  • slides (ppt)
  • assignment
  Class 10
  • Student presentations
 
  Class 11
  • Student presentations

 

  Class 12
  • Feedback on presentations
  • Pareto
  • Risk Management Planning
  • Scott Berkun - making things happen
  • Final Paper
  • slides (ppt)
  • assignment
  Class 13