Saturday

Topic

Project Management Agenda

• What is a Task?
• Estimating Tasks 
• Breaking Down a Project 
• Resource Allocation 
• Resource Leveling

• Gantt
• PERT 
• Critical Path Scheduling 
• Estimating Task Duration 
• Forward / Backward Path Exercise 
• Practical Scheduling – When to Baseline

• Delphi Method
• Brainstorming
• Monte Carlo
• Stages of Team Building

• Brainstorm Small Sample Project
• Role of the Facilitator

• Facilitate every meeting. 
• Speed decision meeting
• Suppress team-destroying behaviors.
• Resolve conflicts constructively. 
• Increase energy levels. 
• Stimulate thinking to develop better solutions

• Rough Order of Magnitude
• Take Off
• Expert Guess
• Using Statistics
• Using Turbo Brainstorming as a Cost Foundation
• Q & A Session

Sunday

Topic

Project Management Agenda

• Brainstorm Student’s Choice of Project 
• Task Identification
• Task Categorizing
• Task Precedence

• Schedule Development
• Critical Path Identification
• Task Duration Estimating
• Assigning Resources
• Assign Costs – How to Minimize Costs
• Calculating Costs

• When is a Change Just a Change?
• When to Re-Baseline the Project Plan
• When to stop a Project 

Sunday

Topic

Project Management Agenda

• Contracts

• Analyze Skill Gaps
• Analyze Quality Data
• QA Department and Autonomy

• Clear Objectives Improve Performance
•  Unclear Responsibilities Result In Turf Wars

• Microsoft Project Demo 
•  Software Advantages
• Other Project Software

• What Did I Learn?
• Real World Implementation
• Team Building
• Cost Analysis
• Getting the Contract Signed with Turbo Brainstorming

• Estimating with Certainty
• Task Bidding Process 
• Your Future
• Q & A Session