Project Management (the beginning)

Miles Metcalfe

One secret

Communication

What is a project?

• Finite duration

• Definite scope

• When it ends, something has changed

What is not project management

• Personal productivity – your todo list

• People management

• Operations management

Balance quadrant

Balance

Cost Quality

Scope Time

Finding a project

Stakeholders

Risks

Proposal

• What does it solve?

• Why is that important?

• How much will it cost?

Start-up

• What

• Objective

• Deliverables (to achieve the objective)

• Rationale – why

• When

• Who

Tooling

Simple tips

• Mindmapping is useful for

• Discovery

• Scoping

• Stakeholders

Beginning the plan

• Product-based

• Breaking down the work

• Estimating

Thanks!