Course Overview
Delivering successful projects that meet or exceed both business and customer expectations is a process that starts long before kickoff and extends past the final release. To succeed, companies must run the gauntlet, which requires a number of fundamental skills, but, paradoxically, these are rarely taught. Only by understanding each step and mastering these basic, required skills can a company increase its ability to navigate a tight competitive landscape with both efficiency and agility.
Key Learning Areas
- Communication
- Requirements Gathering
- Project Planning
- Change Management
- Project Management
Course Outline
Day 1:
- A review of the history and current state of project delivery
- A detailed look at what isn’t working and what rapid change means for planning and delivery
- Driving toward alignment between the business stakeholders and delivery team
- How to plan and derive value from plans in environments of change
- Becoming an expert at gathering requirements
- How to conquer fear and disillusionment and learn to love estimation
Day 2:
- What actually is project management?
- Dependencies as first-class citizens and working with delivery milestones
- Why quality is critical and how to incorporate it to accelerate your process and make your customers love you
- Everything you never wanted to know about plans
- Risky business: analyzing your plan for different types of risk, earned value, and the probability of success before you even start
- Beyond the myth of the generalizing specialist: how to maximize your team through intelligent task assignment
Day 3:
- Wait, we’re actually building this thing now? What to do once you start
- What is done and how to kill the “80% done 80% of the time” project-eating virus.
- Showing progress outside demos
- How to effectively manage technical resources–or any resource executing technical tasks. Or pretty much anyone, really
- Retrospectives–both on projects and on this class
Who Benefits
Project Managers, Engineering Managers, Team Leads (optional - for career development), and potentially Sr. Devs (for career development).
Prerequisites
None