Project Management II

Programme Details

Rationale

Projects move us. Inspire action. If properly managed, they give sense and direction to our effort, make change happen.

Do you have any project ongoing or in mind? Would you like to develop your project management skills? If so this course is for you.

You will learn how to build a project from an idea, understand and decide on the management approach to follow, realize how the challenges usually faced by a project team may be tackled and be prepared to “pitch” the project in learning environments carefully prepared.

Syllabus

1. WATERFALL approach to project management
   1. – Project lifecycle & project management knowledge areas: scope, time, cost, quality, organization, stakeholders, communications and risk management
   2. – Project management processes and frameworks
   3. – Success in project management: more than the iron triangle
2. AGILE approach to project management (based on Scrum)
   1. – Fundamental concepts, the rise of agile frameworks
   2. – Roles and responsibilities: Product Owner, Scrum Master, Team
   3. – Planning and Scope Management
   4. – Backlog and value delivery
   5. – Monitoring and Control: Kanban board, ceremonies.
   6. – Pitch and project plan
3. Design Thinking
   1. – Human factors in requirements analysis
   2. – Map stakeholders
   3. – Empathize
   4. – Personas and user journeys
   5. – Ideation techniques – Prototyping
   6. – Trends and benchmark
   7. – User testing
   8. – Scenarios for concept testing
4. Leadership, Negotiation and Team Management
   1. – Leadership: models, theories, styles and personal traits
   2. – Appropriateness of the leadership styles to emerging challenges
   3. – Negotiation issues and conflict management methods
   4. – Preparation and negotiation tactics
   5. – Negotiation frameworks
   6. – Negotiation errors
   7. – Team building, efficacy and culture
   8. – Ethical perspectives in team negotiation and management: consequentialism and deontology

Learning outcomes

1. Understand the applications of waterfall and agile approach to project management;
2. Define strategies, have a clear view of one’s BATNA and prepare a negotiation;
3. Understand the dynamics of leadership and the need to fit styles to the context, people involved and emerging challenges;
4. Get advanced thinking on managing the unexpected during the project lifecycle;
5. Understand the fundamental components of a pitch;
6. Be prepared to master the pitch.

References

1. PMI – A guide to the project management Body of Knowledge. 6th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Project Management Institute, 2017.
2. Ken Schwaber, Jeff Sutherland, Guia do Scrum, Scrum Guide, Trad. Pedro Silva e Mário Pereira, 2017.
3. Robert Curedale, Design Thinking Processes and Methods, Design Community College Inc, 5th Ed., 2019.
4. Jeanne Liedtka, Tim Ogilvie, Designing for Growth: A manager’s design thinking toolkit, Columbia University Press, 2011.