Scoping and Scheduling Successful Projects

Lesson 1: Project Resource Management Overview

• Human Resource Skills for the Project Manager (or Agile Coach)
• Conducting Icebreakers
• Project Resource Management Overview
• Project Resource Management Processes
• Project Management Competencies (3.4)
• Leadership: Politics, Power, and Getting Things Done (3.4)
• Comparison of Leadership and Management (3.4.5)
• Case Study Selection
  
  

Lesson 2: Planning Processes

• Plan Resource Management
  
  1. Create a Resource Management Plan
  2. Create a Team Charter
  3. Create a Project Organizational Chart
  4. Create a Roles and Responsibilities Chart
  5. Determine Staffing Particulars
  6. Create a Resource Histogram
• Estimate Activity Resources
  
  1. Create a Resource Breakdown Structure
  2. Estimate Activity Resources
     
     

Lesson 3: Executing Processes

• Acquire Resources
  
  1. Perform a Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis
  2. Acquire Contract Resources
  3. Optimize Virtual Teams
  4. Best Practices
  5. Social Identity Theory
  6. Virtual Teams and Social Identity Theory
  7. Team Building Activities for Virtual Teams
  8. Cultural Diversity
  9. Individualism and Communitarianism
  10. Perspectives of Time and Space
  11. Fate and Personal Responsibility
  12. Face and Saving Face
  13. Body Language
  14. Create Resource Calendars
• Develop Team
  
  1. Develop Project Team Overview
  2. Ground Rules
  3. Tuckman Ladder: Form, Storm, Norm, Perform, Adjourn
  4. Team Performance Assessment
  5. Team Building
  6. Team Building – Personality Profiles
  7. Collaborative Decision Making: Delphi, Majority and Plurality Decision Making
  8. Recognition and Rewards
  9. Expectancy Theory
  10. Maslow’s Hierarchy Of Needs
  11. Operant Conditioning
• Manage Team
  
  1. Performance Problems
  2. Counsel Performance Problems
  3. Challenging Stakeholders
  4. Stress Management
  5. Sources of Project Stress
  6. Stress Management Techniques
  7. Conflict Management and Resolution
  8. Views of Conflict
  9. Sources of Project Management Conflict
  10. Conflict Resolution Survey
  11. Conflict Resolution Techniques