The document provides an overview of project management concepts for students, including defining a project, work breakdown structure (WBS), scheduling, and the triple constraint of project management. It outlines an agenda for introducing these topics, with activities for students to practice creating a project charter, WBS, and schedule. Templates are also shared to guide students in representing the WBS, network diagram, and project schedule.
Project Management Overview for Sixth Form Students
1. Project Management Overview
for St. George’s International School , Luxembourg
Sixth Form Students
July 1st 2014
Madhumalti Sharma Diamany Nabhan-Ngandu
2. Agenda
Start Time End Time Activity
8:30 am 8:45 am Introductions
Overview of project management standards
8:45 am 9:05 am What is a project?
Activity to identify project vs operations
Create Project Charter
9:05 am 9:25 am Work Breakdown Structure creation
9:25 am 10:00 am Project Time Management
Create schedule
Triple constraint on project
10:00 am 10:30 am Summary and Lessons Learned
3. About Us
Madhumalti Sharma, PMP®
European Program Manager,
Montrium
Passionate about teaching kids to
code
http://www.workshop4me.org
6. Agenda
Start Time End Time Activity
8:30 am 8:45 am Introductions
Overview of project management standards
8:45 am 9:05 am What is a project?
Activity to identify project vs operations
Create Project Charter
9:05 am 9:25 am Work Breakdown Structure creation
9:25 am 10:00 am Project Time Management
Create schedule
Triple constraint on project
10:00 am 10:30 am Summary and Lessons Learned
7. What is a project?
‘A project is a temporary endeavour
undertaken to create a unique
product, service or result’
PMBOK® Guide Fifth edition
8. What is project management?
‘Project management is the
application of knowledge, skills, tools
and techniques to project activities
to meet the project requirements’
PMBOK® Guide Fifth edition
11. Agenda
Start Time End Time Activity
8:30 am 8:45 am Introductions
Overview of project management standards
8:45 am 9:05 am What is a project?
Activity to identify project vs operations
Create Project Charter
9:05 am 9:25 am Work Breakdown Structure creation
9:25 am 10:00 am Project Time Management
Create schedule
Triple constraint on project
10:00 am 10:30 am Summary and Lessons Learned
12. Work Breakdown Structure
The WBS is a hierarchical
decomposition of the total scope of
work to be carried out by the project
team to accomplish the project
objectives and create the required
deliverables.
PMBOK® Guide Fifth edition
13. Work Breakdown Structure
1.0 Tree house
1.3 Design
1.4 Build
platform
1.1 Buy
material
1.2 Find out
Rules
1.3.1 Select
trees
1.3.2 Define
layout
1.1.1 Prepare
shopping list
1.1.2 Place
order
1.1.3 Pick up
material
1.3.3 Select
tree house
1.3.4 Make a
model
1.4.1 Fix
support
beams
1.4.2
Assemble
platform to
beams
1.2.1 Check
regulation
1.2.2 Talk to
City hall
1.5 Build house
1.5.1 Build
walls
structure
1.5.2 Add
walls to
platform
1.5.3 Add roof
1.3.4 Define
material
1.2.3 Talk to
neighbours
15. Agenda
Start Time End Time Activity
8:30 am 8:45 am Introductions
Overview of project management standards
8:45 am 9:05 am What is a project?
Activity to identify project vs operations
Create Project Charter
9:05 am 9:25 am Work Breakdown Structure creation
9:25 am 10:00 am Project Time Management
Create schedule
Triple constraint on project
10:00 am 10:30 am Summary and Lessons Learned
16. What is Time Management?
• Plan Schedule Management
• Define Activities
• Sequence Activities
• Estimate Activity Resources
• Estimate Activity Durations
• Develop Schedule
• Control Schedule
17. Project Schedule Network Diagram
• Shows the logical flow of tasks in the
project.
• From the WBS we can see which tasks
can be done simultaneously, because
we have assigned different resources
to each of these tasks
22. Agenda
Start Time End Time Activity
8:30 am 8:45 am Introductions
Overview of project management standards
8:45 am 9:05 am What is a project?
Activity to identify project vs operations
Create Project Charter
9:05 am 9:25 am Work Breakdown Structure creation
9:25 am 10:00 am Project Time Management
Create schedule
Triple constraint on project
10:00 am 10:30 am Summary and Lessons Learned
23. Summary
• Project management standards
• Project vs operation
• Work Breakdown Structure
• Project Time Management
• Triple Constraint
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47 processes in 13 knowledge area and 5 process groups. Mention Project Charter in Initiating and give example of charter. Scope, time, budget, result. Mention assumptions, timeline
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7 minutes
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10 minutes
Divide into teams
Select project
Create project charter
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DN 10 minutes
The WBS allows to divide your project into work packages and dependencies and show their relationship and workflow in visual form.
The WBS is one way of organizing all of the tasks in the project. The method used is to break the project objective into sub-objectives. In this case, the rainbow cake.
For each sub-objective, I list the tasks necessary to achieve the sub-objective. In this case, the Make Cake sub -objective consists of 1) Look in
cake recipe book, 2) Measure/mix cake ingredients, 3) Cool cake, and 4) Bake cake.
Note that the tasks do not have to be listed in the correct time sequence. The important thing at this stage is to make a complete list of all the tasks necessary to successfully achieve the sub-objective.
DN
The WBS allows to divide your project into work packages and dependencies and show their relationship and workflow in visual form.
The WBS is one way of organizing all of the tasks in the project. The method used is to break the project objective into sub-objectives. In this case, the rainbow cake.
For each sub-objective, I list the tasks necessary to achieve the sub-objective. In this case, the Make Cake sub -objective consists of 1) Look in
cake recipe book, 2) Measure/mix cake ingredients, 3) Cool cake, and 4) Bake cake.
Note that the tasks do not have to be listed in the correct time sequence. The important thing at this stage is to make a complete list of all the tasks necessary to successfully achieve the sub-objective.
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15 minutes
DN
MS
Introduce concept of lead, lag,
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After starting the cake project, we can either first look in the frosting recipe book,
look in the cake recipe book, or drive to the store to buy the decorations. From our Task
Assignment Matrix, we can see that we can do all of these tasks simultaneously, because
we have assigned different resources to each of these tasks. Even if we have fewer
resources, however, we have established that there are at least three paths of tasks
available in our project.
After we look in the frosting recipe book, we can measure/mix the frosting ingredients. We
are then ready to slather the frosting on the cake. However, we have to wait for the cake to
be baked and cooled before we do this task.
DN
MS
Introduce resource calendar, risk register, milestone schedule
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10 minutes
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MS with DN pitching in
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Take Post its – red, yellow, green and one to enter EBI – even better if for feedback
Venn Diagram – interesting, learnt something new, can apply the knowledge