Project Planning and Risk Management for Development Teams
Consider this scenario: Your project missed its scheduled release date, and your customers did not find that it met their needs when it finally was released. How can you plan a project that does a better job of meeting customer requirements and does it while making life better for your development team? It is not impossible, even though it may still be challenging.
This course builds on the two-day course, Project Management: A Team Approach for Accountability and Results by adding information on customer requirements, engineering specifications, requirements risks, a task-responsibility matrix and other techniques that assist development teams with the specific needs that their projects present.
Using a mix of presentation, group interaction, experiential exercises and applying all the steps to your own projects, this three-day course gives you and your team the common framework, skills, methodology and language to generate the accountability and results you know are possible. It gives you access to real data - not just opinions or "gut feelings" - that you can use in your interactions with project sponsors and customers to negotiate and set expectations for achievable results.
Course Objectives
After completing this course, participants wil be able to:
- Establish a common language and set of processes that can be applied to all your projects.
- Learn how to more successfully manage your projects.
- Learn how to define customer requirements and determine how to convert them into engineering specifications.
- Understand Project Processes - The methods and tools that make a difference in achieving project objectives.
- Apply the principles of project management to a real project - one you bring into the course.
- Learn how to use the course workbook and other materials as a reference for your projects.
Key Topics
Day 1 - Define and Organize the Project
- Introduction - Project Team Simulation Exercise
- Project Initiation and Team Definition
- Project Sponsorship
- Operating Across Multiple Organizations
- Project Team Planning Meeting
- Project Objective, Requirements Definition, Engineering Specifications, and Priority Matrix
- Project Infrastructure Checklist
- Validation Meeting with Sponsor
Day 2 - Plan the Project
- Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
- Dependency Diagram and Critical Path Method (CPM)
- Optimization Plans
- Risk Analysis and Management Plans
- Validation Meeting with Sponsor
- Set the Project Baseline
- Begin Change Management Process
Day 3 - Manage Progress to Plan
- Collect Status Information
- Identify and Analyze Variances
- Identify a Re-planning Event / Diagnostic Metrics
- Reports on Progress to Plan / Communicate regularly
- Close Out the Project
- Project Retrospective and Team Meeting
- Force-field Analysis - a tool to improve organizational learning
Instructor
PATRICK NEAL has a passion for helping people and organizations reduce costs, improve productivity, and shorten time-to-market by developing organizational and individual competence in project management. He has worked with more than 200 organizations including IBM, AT&T, Intel, Hewlett-Packard, Agilent Technologies, and PG&E. More than 10,000 project managers have attended his training classes.
Patrick was a member of the Hewlett-Packard Project Management Initiative which was credited by an industry study with developing the best high-technology approach to project management. He founded the Project Management Office at Agilent Technologies.
Patrick has a doctorate in Organizational Communication and is certified by the Project Management Institute as a Project Management Professional (PMP).
Onsite Delivery
Contact: info@effectivetraining.com
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