Project Management Basics: Professional Development Skills PACE

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Add to your project management skills for career growth & development

Workshop Overview

The Introduction to Project Management seminar is intended for engineers, technical leads, project leaders, and functional managers who want to learn the basic fundamentals of project management, in order to help themselves and their groups accomplish their endeavors, whether at work, at home, or in the community. Participants will learn basic project management techniques, and most importantly, how to apply them in real life without excessive paperwork or overhead! The workshop will include templates and checklists to take away, and examples of how to apply project management techniques to engineering, personal projects and some project management personal/human touch tips.

 


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  • Date: 26 Aug 2017
  • Time: 10:00 AM to 02:30 PM
  • All times are (GMT-05:00) US/Eastern
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  • EC 275 Engineering Center
  • Oakland University
  • Rochester, Michigan
  • United States 48309-4479
  • Building: Engineering Center
  • Room Number: 275
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  • Contact Event Host

  • sharan.kalwani@ieee.org, Phone: +1 (248) 980-UNIX

    [NOTE]: There is a nominal fee ($15 IEEE student  members, $25 IEEE members, $25 non-IEEE students and $40 for non-IEEE attendees or guests) that is required to help cover cost of printed class notes, refreshments, gourmet coffee & tea, other support logistics, etc. Payable via check or CC, prior to the start of event. Please email to confirm your enrollment!

  • Co-sponsored by Women in Engineering (WIE)
  • Starts 04 August 2017 12:00 AM
  • Ends 22 August 2017 12:00 PM
  • All times are (GMT-05:00) US/Eastern
  • 0 in-person spaces left!
  • No Admission Charge
  • Menu: Veggie Delite, Classic Tuna, Turkey Breast

  Speakers

Sharan Kalwani Sharan Kalwani of IEEE

Topic:

Project Management Skills

Project Management Skills Overview



  1. Introduction

  2. Definition of a Project

  3. Typical Processes and Phases of a project

  4. Project Integration Management

  5. Project Scope Management, Requirements - a moving target!

  6. Risks (will be repeated later)

  7. Project Time Management: Scheduling and estimating (Bread, Butter OR Heart, Brains of all projects)

  8. Project Milestones and Cost Management

  9. Constant ReBaselining of Projects & Plans

  10. Managing the Project, Communications in an Objective Manner:



  • Are we there yet? Are we on track?

  • How do we broadcast the same status update ?

  • How do we measure progress?

  • Risk Management - a necessary part and parcel of modern day project execution


11. Running Meetings (A Soft Skill) aka People Management:



  • Planning Meetings

  • Playing the roll of a coach

  • Meeting Roles and Responsibilities; Conflict Resolution; CYA or Due Diligence techniques

  • Project Design/Documentation Reviews


12. Project Quality Aspects


13. Closing the Project, hand-offs to all groups


14. Conduct a lessons-learned meeting (never  skip this!)

Biography:

A seasoned scientifc, technical and computing professional, Sharan has spent over 20+ years implementing many new and pioneering technologies from operating systems (*nix) , high performance computing (Cray, SGI, compute clusters), engineering applications (CAE simulations), optimization, networking (TCP/IP, Infiniband), operations (ITIL, ITSM), scientific domain (BioInformatics) and project management. A successful speaker and author, Sharan looks to increase the professional approach of every individual he interacts with. He enjoys teaching, contributing to STEM activities and publishing. He is a senior member of IEEE, ACM, Emeritus member of Michigan!/usr/group, and leads the SIG-Linux section of SEMCO. He is currently the Chair of the IEEE SE Michigan Education Society Chapter for 2017. Sharan has been delivering projects since 1988 and has worn several hats besides being burned many times on various projects (who else to better learn from?).

Email:

Address:Rochester, Michigan, United States, 48306




Agenda

10:00 AM - Welcome and Introductions, Chapter business update

10:15 AM - Skills Talk: Part 1

11:00 AM - Break

11:15 AM - Skills Talk: Part 2

12:00 Noon - Break & Lunch

12:45 PM - Skills Talk: Part 3 plus Exercises

02:00 to 2:25 PM - Q&A and Formal Conclusion

CEUs (or PDH) are available by prior request. Please indicate this at the time of registration *and* email the sponsors in advance.


A Joint WIE/Oakland University/IEEE Education Society SEM Chapter Presentation