Schedule - additional readings will be assigned
 

Introduction

     Intro to class

·  Content

·  Introductions

·  Administrivia

Intro to Project Management

·  Projects vs. Operations

·  Success vs. Failure

·  Exercise

Team / Leadership

Leadership Styles

5 Dysfunctions of a Team

Building a team – people and culture

Responsibility Matrix

Communication Plan

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

Requirements

Review / discuss Charter / POS assignment

Overview of requirements

Requirements negotiation vs gathering

Class exercise

Requirements – Prioritizing and Iterating

Design Analysis / Alternatives review

Introduce elevator speeches

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

Sizing / Financials

Project schedule – begin w/high level

What are project financials?

Why care about project financials?

Creating a cost baseline

MS Project demo

Deriving:

·  Critical Path

·  Critical Chain

assignment

Risk

Developing & maintaining risk management plan

Calculate probability, impact, detectability and importance

Establishing triggers & actions

Defining options - avoidance, mitigation, transference and acceptance

Review Project Schedule, Critical Path &  Cost Baseline assignments

Schedule compression

Metrics

Revisit Communication Plan

Monitoring / tracking 1

Review Risk Assessment assignment

Review Cost Baseline assignment

Change management

·  baselines

·  benchmarks

·  constraints

Tracking and status reports

·  Automated time/task tracking

·  Status communications

Presenting and Presentations

Retrospectives

guest lecturer

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

PM as a Career / Panel

·         PM Career slides

• Panel of active Project Managers