Project Management for the Resource-challenged

Abstract:

Over and over again projects go over budget, under-deliver on scope, and fail to be ready on time. Professional project management provides tools to control the process, ensuring that projects are defined so that they may be planned, executed, and controlled with problems dealt with as they arise, thus ensuring that the project manager – and his or her superiors – is never surprised, and finally, at closing, useful lessons are learned and recorded.

In this session we will cover enough of project management basics as outlined by the Project Management Institute, so that managers will have a working sense of the "Project Management Lifecycle," as well as an understanding of critical areas such as communication planning and risk management. This workshop will cover managing several types of projects from building exhibits (or new exhibit halls) to developing software with a special focus on the latest trends in Agile development – the idea that many types of development work best when done in short, iterative cycles.

This is a reprise of last year's "Project Management 'On One Foot'" workshop with additional focus on Agile project development methodologies and tools. Participants (as well as graduates of last year's workshop) interested in getting more of a "hands-on" feel for Agile Development as it relates to website development should also consider the complementary afternoon workshop, "Play at Work: Applying Agile Methods to Museum Website Development."

Session Info

• Type: Half Day Workshop
• Keywords: agile, agile project management, pmi, intro
• Relevance: People responsible for delivering projects as diverse as new physical exhibits or new websites in libraries, archives, and museums.