Course Description | Course Objectives | Course Outline

 

Practical Project Management (Earn 24 PDUs)

June 26 - 28, 2008 @ Bangalore, INDIA
September 25 - 27, 2008 @ Bangalore, INDIA

Course Description

This training program familiarizes the participants with formal project management processes and implementation of the same in projects. This course includes work breakdown into high-level components/activities, estimation, project planning, controlling project with respect to baselines, change control, ensuring visibility of project progress and effective project communication. This course assumes that requirements are available. Requirements gathering techniques are not discussed in this course. A case-study based approach is adopted in order to give the participants an understanding of the practical application of project management concepts.

Course Objectives

The objective of this workshop is to enable participants to manage projects using some standard project management techniques, namely,

Course Outline

Risk assessment, Work breakdown and Estimation

Planning the project life cycle and approach based on project risks

Developing a high level plan using Use Case Methodology

    • Overview of Use Case Methodology
    • Case Study:
      • Breakdown of requirements into Use Cases
      • Planning Integration Builds & Releases
      • Identify project risks

Estimating project effort using Function Points

    • Overview of Function Point Analysis
    • Case Study:
      • Estimate effort (with Work Breakdown as basis) using Function Points
      • Derive effort, duration, volume of test cases, staffing etc

Project planning and setup for execution

Building the Project Team

    • Overview of team acquisition & team building
    • Case Study:
      • Define project organization structure
      • Define Roles & Responsibilities
      • Identify team development activities

Ensuring effective Project communication

    • Overview of project communication
      • Stakeholder Analysis
    • Case Study:
      • Identify project communication requirements of stakeholders
      • Develop a Communication Plan based on stakeholder needs
      • Define status tracking frequency, procedure and format

Setting up the Project environment for execution

    • Domain / hardware / software setup
    • Test environment setup
    • Project Repository setup
    • Change Control System – Configuration management
    • Procedures for ensuring product quality
      • Review and test mechanisms
      • Project Standards & Guidelines
    • Initiating recruitment, training and procurement
    • Case Study:
      • Define structure of Project Repository
      • Define test setup

Identify configuration items and control structure

Scheduling Tasks
Developing a detailed project schedule using MS-Project

    • Overview of Project Plan Development and MS-Project
    • Case Study:
      • List all tasks
      • Define task dependencies
      • Budget effort to tasks based on estimate
      • Define resources
      • Allocate resources to tasks
      • Level resources
      • Optimize schedule to meet commit date and budget
      • Set up project milestones : Deliverables and dates
      • Set up quality goals & review points

    Project Tracking

    Tracking Scope

    • Overview of scope change control
    • Case Study:
      • Requirements Traceability Matrix
      • Requirements Clarifications Document
      • Change Tracker
      • Configuration Management

    Tracking Schedule

    • Overview of schedule change control
    • Case Study:
      • Reporting / Validating Completion Status
      • Analyzing deviations from schedule baseline
      • Analyzing slacks and Critical Path
      • Rescheduling tasks

    Tracking Quality

    • Overview of quality control techniques
    • Case Study:
      • Defect Tracker
      • Root Cause Analysis of defects
      • Reviews
      • Thorough & controlled Testing
      • Maintaining Traceability
      • Tracking project metrics and planning on process improvement

    Tracking Risks

      • Overview of risk and issue management
      • Case Study:
          • Issue Tracker
          • Risk Register

Trainer Profile:

 

Shobha RameshShobha Ramesh has a career spanning 20 years in the IT industry in organizations such as Satyam, SLK Software, Kirloskar Computer Services Ltd and BFL Software Ltd.

She has over 12 years of experience as a Project / Program Manager and has handled projects of sizes ranging from 1 – 100 person-years on UNIX, J2EE, Microsoft, TIBCO and Livelink platforms in various types of client engagement models like offshore model, onsite-offshore model, multi-site / multi-vendor model, staff augmentation model etc.

She has managed large ODCs containing development, maintenance and production-support activities.

As part of her project management activities, she has specialized in product development and in Release & Configuration Management for large projects with multiple teams.

She has managed projects for a wide variety of customers including domestic, US, Japanese, Chinese and Australian customers in the Retail, Automotive, Banking, Manufacturing and Business Performance Measurement domains.

Shobha’s analysis and design skills include OOAD, SSAD, Database Modeling and UML.

Shobha has completed her M.Sc in Mathematics in 1985 from IIT Chennai.

Some of the organizations where Shobha has trained: