Schedule - additional readings will be assigned
 
Class Topics Due
Aug 30
  • Intro to Class
    • introductions
    • course objectives
    • grading
  • Intro to Project Management
    • Operations vs. Projects
    • Success vs. Failure
  • Lifecycles
    • waterfall
    • iterative
  • Project Initiation
    • Building a business case
    • Project Management Deliverables - by phase
    • Project Charters
    • Case study
  
Sept 6

  • Review charter evaluations

    • 'Elevator’ speeches

  • Requirements Gathering

    • Planning Client satisfaction

    • Requirements gathering methods

      • iterative

      • waterfall

  • High-level work plan
    • 'down and dirty' schedule estimate
    • Complexity review
    • Forming a team
 assignment
Sept 13
  • Review 5 Dysfunctions of a Team
  • Leadership styles
 assignment
Sept 20
  • Responsibility matrix
  • Communication plan
  • Requirements negotiation
  • User stories
  • Estimating
 assignment
Sept 27
  • Class presents elevator speeches
  • Project Deliverables & Documentation
  • Lifecycle review
  • Alternatives selection
  • Estimating
    • story points
    • ideal days
  • Complexity revisited
  •  Task sizing
    • parametric
    • bottom-up
    • analogous
 assignment
Oct 4
  • Work Breakdown Structure
    • Activity definitions
    • Activity sequencing
    • Activity duration estimating

  • Critical Path

  • Critical Chain

  • Schedule compression

  • Common Scheduling Pitfalls

  • PERT, CPM, Network Diagram, GANTT
  • MS Project - demo

assignment

 

 
Oct 11
  • Risk Management
    • 5 steps
    • Six Hats
  • Class risk exercise
  • Issue tracking
    • risk vs issues
    • samples
 assignment
Oct 18
  • Project Financials
    • Associating cost to activity
    • Creating cost baseline
    • Project budget and actuals in MS Project
  • Big picture financials
    • CBA
    • PV
    • Reporting
  • Financial tool review (MS Project, Excel)
 assignment
Oct 25
  • Tracking and status reports
    • Automated time/task tracking
    • Status communications
      • sponsors
      • PMO
      • users
  • Team meetings
  • Change management
    • baselines
    • benchmarks
    • constraints
  • Risk response
  • Quality control
    • Quality benchmarking
    • Quality flowcharting
 assignment
Nov 1
  • Student status presentations
 assignment
Nov 8
  • Review of presentations
  • After 'Build'; deployment & process change management
  • Retrospectives
    • Lessons learned
    • Best practices
    • Scorecards
 assignment
Nov 15
  • Troubleshooting, Negotiations & Multi-tasking
    • Pareto
  • Ethics
  • Testing
  • Metrics
 assignment
Nov 22
  • Project Closure
    • Administrative Closure
    • Contract Closure
    • Team Recognition
    • Additional releases
  • PMBOK Overview
  
Nov 29
  • Review of course material
  • Project Management as a career
  • PM certifications
  
Dec 6 Panel discussion by Program & Project Managers