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PROJECT MANAGEMENT
PROCESS
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Risk Management
Usually performed
1. at the start of a project,
2. at the beginning of major project phases (such as
requirements, design, coding and deployment),
and
3. when there are significant changes (for example,
feature changes, target platform changes and
technology changes).
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Risk Management
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1) Risk Identification
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1) Risk Identification
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3) Risk Management Planning
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4) Risk Review
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Risk Management
Time Effective!
90 to 120 minutes for projects that are 12 to 60
person-months
Control the length of the session by controlling
the scope you choose,
most sessions usually take less than two hours
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Communication Facilitation
THE PROJECT MANAGEMENT
PROCESS
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Meeting Types
Project Planning Meetings
Review of progress against schedule
Update plan, identify pain points and
dependencies
Publically call team leads to task
Content Meetings
Regular meetings focused around content topics
E.G. “Reporting”, “Backend API”
Make decision, Record them, Communicate them
Use of the “Rolling Email”
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Meeting Types
Issues Meetings
Regularly schedule meeting (ie. open in everyone’s
schedule)
Issues gathered the day before and distributed
Issue initiator indicates required attendance
QA Meetings
Planning
Discussion with business
Discussion with developers
Regular Review of open tickets
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Meeting Modalities
Modalities
In person
Video Conference
Voice Conference
Shared Desktop + Voice Conference
Pros/Cons of each?
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Face to Face Communication
A verbal message is affected by:
The message itself
Paralingual attributes of the message (ie. the pitch, tone,
and inflections in the speaker's voice)
Nonverbal communication (ie. Posture, facial expression,
shoulders, tugging on the ears, crossed arms, hand
signals)
To be an effective communicator, you must ask
questions.
Do you understand me?
Questions help the project team, ask for clarification, and
achieve an exact transfer of knowledge.
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Writing Email
1) Understand why you’re writing
have explicit answers for two questions:
Why am I writing this?
What exactly do I want the result of this message
to be?
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Writing Email
2) Get what you need
Really just three basic types of business email.
Providing information - “Larry Tate will be in the office
Monday at 10.”
Requesting information - “Where did you put the ‘Larry
Tate’ file?”
Requesting action - “Will you call Larry Tate’s admin to
confirm our meeting on Monday?”
The recipient must immediately know which type of
email it is.
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Writing Email
3) Make One Point per Email
If you need to communicate a number of different
things:
Consider writing a separate email on each subject,
especially if they related to different topics or have
different timescales.
Consider presenting each point in a separate, numbered
paragraph, especially if relate to the same project.
Making each point stand out, significantly
increasing the likelihood that each point will be
addressed.
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Writing Email
3) Write a great Subject line
Help your recipient to
immediately understand why you’ve sent them an email
quickly determine what kind of response or action it
requires
Avoid “Hi,” “One more thing…,” or “FYI,”
Best is a short summary of the most important
points
Lunch resched to Friday @ 1pm
Reminder: Monday is "St. Bono’s Day"–no classes
REQ: Resend Larry Tate zip file?
HELP: I’ve lost the source code?
Thanks for the new liver–works great!
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Writing Email
3) Brevity is the soul of…getting a response
But be presise…
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Bad Example Good Example
Subject: Proposal Subject: Checking On Reliable Landscapes Proposal
Lynn, Lynn,
I just wanted to check that you have received the
Did you get my proposal last landscaping proposal I emailed to you last week. I haven't
week? I haven't heard back heard back and wanted to make sure it went through.
and wanted to make sure.
Can you please call me by Thursday so we can discuss? This
is when our discount offer expires, and I want to make sure
Can you please call me so we you don't miss it!
can discuss?
The quickest way to contact me is by cell phone.
Thanks!
Thanks!
Peter Peter Schuell, Owner
Reliable Landscaping, Inc.
555.135.4598 (office)
555.135.2929 (cell)
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