Managing the Deadline

IRM UK STRATEGIC IT TRAINING LTD
Pinner, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Course Format: Classroom | E-learning | Virtual Class | Online | On-site | Blended | Self-paced

Course Description:

'' Managing means making the right things happen. It is about helping people to do what is needed, using the most effective management tools, and understanding and keeping the focus on the business needs of the project.

Managing the Deadline is a master class for project managers. It assumes that you already understand what a Gantt chart tells you, and you are familiar with the nuts and bolts of project management. Managing the Deadline is unique in addressing the powerful issues affecting the success of all projects, including the balance between business needs, people needs and technology.

Have you ever wondered why some managers succeed? Have you ever wondered why the latest management wonder-tool seems to be making no difference?

The difference lies in becoming a total manager: A manager who knows the right techniques, and knows when and how to apply them. A manager who knows how to estimate, and how to allocate. A manager who knows how to handle the team so that the team members are willing collaborators in project success. This is what we teach in Managing the Deadline ¨C how to achieve a balance between the apparently opposing factors in project management. How to balance risk and deadline, how to estimate size, and then partition into useful pieces. This course gives you the insider¡¯s knowledge on how to make your projects the ones that succeed.

This unique learning experience combines the vision, skills and experience of The Atlantic Systems Guild and Antelope Projects. It is designed to enable people to:

experience the important project management issues in a workshop environment
relate them to current practice in their own workplace
explore and evaluate techniques, templates and methods
learn from the experience of master project managers in many fields
Tom DeMarco¡¯s book, The Deadline, is an inspiration in its approach to project management. We use the case study from The Deadline to illustrate the workshop sessions. Participants receive their own copy of The Deadline.

Keywords : Project management, Masterclass, Deadline, Estimation, Teams, Peopleware, Business Objectives, Stakeholders, Balance


Project managers (both from information technology and business).

There will be many exercises and workshops throughout the course. Participants should come prepared to participate actively in exercises that produce deliverables rather than to listen to lecture-style sessions. There will be plenty of opportunity for discussion with the presenters and to explore strategies for improving project management.


What value does Managing the Deadline give you?

It enables you to:


understand the underlying issues that determine project success
assess how these issues are reflected in your own working practice and your own workplace, and to know where to start improvements
sample and use some techniques and tools that make a practical contribution to better project management
link project management to other useful disciplines and specialisations
get exposure to some of the best project management ideas and integrate them with your own practice
develop your experience base for management judgement
build a guidebook that reflects your new insights on best project management practice
learn from other project managers¡¯ experience

Structure of Course:

The course is composed of 9 units of equal length.

Each unit focuses on a common project management issue, a connected set of project management insights and their applicability to your environment and applicable project management techniques.

A unit is made up of:

Exploration of a central project management issue
Raising awareness of the real questions
What would you do in this situation, what are your "hunches"?
Application within your organisation
Do you recognise this issue, or one like it, on your project ?
How is it handled?
How can the approach be improved?
Formal technique tutorial
A modelling technique, a template, a procedure that provides a practical way to manage this project issue.
Your guidebook
Individual participants gather their insights and ideas
You create your own best practice guidebook as part of the output of the course
Content

1. Balancing the Management Ingredients
To be able to see your project management ingredients and the need for balance between them.

The elements that enable a project to be managed
The balance between the business elements, people elements and technical elements
Different deliverables need different project management strategies
Techniques for quantifying business goals (Purpose Advantage Measure)
The requirements template
2. How big is this?
To be able to ask the right questions to assess the scope of the project

The work we need to study versus the product we are building
The questions that enable us to scope the project
Assessing the size of projects in your environment
Techniques for making work context, product context, stakeholders and constraints visible
3. The Deadline versus The Estimate
To be able to distinguish between and to manage deadlines and estimates

Juggling the knowables in pursuit of the possible
The characteristics of deadlines and estimates
Making and adjusting plans
Negotiating around deadlines
Measurement techniques: function points, bang, event counts, data weight, Bang
The process of estimating the work to be done
4. Managing the risks
To understand why managing the risks is an investment in project success

Making your project visible
Identifying risks to the project¡¯s success
The Risk Management task force
Building a capability for collaborative action
Risk clinic, how well are risks managed in your environment?
Templates for recording, monitoring and managing risks
5. Partitioning the work
To be able to partition the project into relevant and manageable chunks

Identifying useful chunks (business events, product use cases, subject matter, stakeholder, domain)
The questions that help the partitioning process
Identifying and allocating project tasks
Templates and checklists to improve partitioning
6. Project Dynamics
To be able to understand and manage the dynamic factors in your project

Identifying the ripple effect of changes
Predicting the way a single dynamic will work in your project
Recognition Primed Decisions
Improving your hunchbase
How well do you handle dynamics in your environment?
Techniques for modelling and simulating the project dynamics
7. Are we on track?
To be able to identify what needs attention

Evaluating metrics for usefulness
Measurement clinic: how well do you use metrics in your environment?
Useful measurables: cost, duration, resource, functionality, properties
Project management charting techniques
The Critical Chain for realistic planning
Comparing estimates and actuals
8. Peopleware
To be able to understand how to build a functional working environment

Football versus Tug-of-war
Staffing strategies
Stakeholder responsibilities
Team dynamics under pressure
The Environment-Performance equation
9. Learning to Manage
A project manager¡¯s survival kit

The project manager is not alone
The manager as a stakeholder
Assess yourself ¨C the project manager¡¯s questionnaire
Growing "The Knowledge"
A small group tracking progress: building and improving your own guidebook
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Phone:+44 (0)20 8866 8366

School Address:

IRM UK STRATEGIC IT TRAINING LTD
Bishops Walk House
19-23 High Street
Pinner, Middlesex, HA5 5PJ, UK
Tel: +44 (0)20 8866 8366
Fax: +44 (0)20 8866 7966
E-Mail: customerservice@irmuk.co.uk


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