Project Management
Two Days

Project management is the discipline of making things happen the way they should happen.

Objectives

• Develop a common language to talk about projects and project management
• Establish the procedures needed to plan and design projects
• Develop a process to manage the projects
• Apply tools necessary to planning and implementing projects
• Understand the key roles and their responsibilities in a project
• Identify and evaluate the possible tradeoffs between cost, quality, time, and scope

Agenda

Project exercise
Introduction to projects
Important definitions
Roles and responsibilities
Concept stage
Writing objectives
Working with Sponsors
Concept stage
Design stage
Execution planning stage
Working with Dependency Charts
Resource histograms
Resource scheduling
Execution stage
Dealing with tradeoffs
Crash costing
Review stage
Using software
Summary exercise