XIX TI-UPRM Workshop: Countdown – Project Management

FACILITATOR: Lee Harper (click here for bio)   

DATE:     February 7, 2008.

PLACE:     Cafeteria's Annex (in second floor of the Student Center)

OVERVIEW:

Countdown is a one-day program for project teams, designed to provide
*/a big picture Understanding of the essentials of project team
success./* Approximately 4 hours are spent in a Project Team
simulation, during which learners experience game-like fun while
wrestling with real-life challenges. Then, the next 2 to 3 hours are
comprised of Small Team and Connections exercises where learners
discuss, then connect what they learned in Countdown with their own
issues, project management tools, processes and challenges.


OBJECTIVES:

This course will enable the participant to:

   * Define the five key processes of project management:
      Initiating, Planning, Executing, Controlling and Closing.
   * Explain the triple constraints of time, cost and requirements
      that form the "Trade-off Triangle" of project management decision-making.
   * Explain how a project kickoff meeting and project scope
      statement are used to learn what project sponsors expect from the team.
   * Explain a risk evaluation and contingency plan and the
      importance of risk management.
   * Explain the purpose and importance of the following project
      management tools:
      - Work Breakdown Structure
      - Gantt Chart
      - Responsibility Matrix
      - Risk Profile
      - Resource Allocation Grid
      - Critical Path Diagram
      - Project Control Reports to Sponsors
   * Complete a resource constraints evaluation considering
      available time, people, workspace and money, and explain the importance
      of effective resource allocation.
   * Explain effective team responses to project changes including
      scope creep and changing expectations.
   * Describe a project's critical path which determines the
      earliest completion of the project.
   * Describe effective team behaviors for managing and controlling a project
      - communicating effectively, gaining and managing commitment, and
      resolving conflict - and explain the use of these behaviors within the
      team, within the organization, and outside the organization.

AGENDA:

8:00 AM	Registration & Wake-up coffee
8:30 AM	Morning Session (1/2)
10:15 AM	Break
10:30 AM	Morning Session (2/2)
12:00 M	Lunch
1:00 PM	Afternoon Session (1/2)
2:30 PM	Break
2:45 PM	Afternoon Session (2/2)
4:30 PM	Evaluation

CONTACTS:

Dr. Manuel Jimenez* Electrical and Computer Engineering Department -RUM e-mail: mjimenez@ece.uprm.edu Exts.: 3780

Dr. Gladys O. Docoudray Electrical and Computer Engineering Department - RUM e-mail: ducoudray@ece.uprm.edu Ext.: 3178

Dr. Rogelio Palomera Electrical and Computer Engineering Department - RUM e-mail: palomera@ece.uprm.edu Ext.: 3098

* Reservations

REMARKS:
- The workshop will count for CEP credit (8 hours)
- Reservations required due to limited number of seats
- Refreshments and lunch will be served

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