2. Who Am I ?
Nadun De Silva
• Project Manager in profession
• 6+ years of IT Industry Experience
• Graduated from Faculty of Applied Science, USJP ‘2010
• Project Management Qualifications – PMP, PMI-ACP, CSM, CSPO,
SAFe-Agilist
• Worked with Government bodies, Local Private Companies, Fortune
500 companies
• Led Teams (co-located, remote, vendors)
3. Who Are You?
• Who heard about project management?
• Have you ever managed a project?
• What would you like to know?
4. The Plan
• Introduction of Project Management
profession
• Project Management principles
• Motivation for practices
• Emphasizing the importance of Project
Management tools
11. Why Projects Fail?
• Poor Communication
• Poorly defined project goals and objectives
• Poor Management
• Disagreements and misunderstandings
• Personal Conflicts
14. Basic Principles of Project Management
• Project structure
• Definition phase
• Clear goals
• Transparency about project status
• Risk recognition
• Managing project disturbances
• Responsibility of the project manager
• Project success
15. What are the available PM Methodologies?
• The Traditional, Sequential Methodologies
• The Agile Methodologies
• The Process-based Methodologies
• Other Methodologies
20. How to select the correct PM Methodology?
• Listen to your client
• Obtain a clear idea about solution/ end
deliverable
• Consider about the Project constraints
• Get the higher management preference
• Have a good understanding about your
project team
• Think about what’s already working in your
company, or identify the problem
21. Exercise – Building A Tower
• Initiation:
• Team structure: 5 Students
• Resources: 20 sheets (waste A4 sheets) per group
• Requirement:
• What to build? A paper tower
• How tall it should be? Maximum
• Other requirements? Should be stable and good looking
• Planning: Each team will be given 5 minutes.
• Execution & Monitoring: Each team will be given 30
minutes
• Closure: Each team will be given 2 minutes to present
22. How To Start Your Project?
• Understand the Business requirement, client nature
• Determine on the practice/methodology
• Team formation
• Identify the stakeholders (other than the team)
• Layout the project plan with the team
• Identify the initial project risks and assumptions
• Estimate for the Project and determine on the project
end date
• Kick-off the project
23. During the Project Execution as a PM
• Assist team members to clear their project blockers
• Understand the project progress and its deviations
• Communicate the progress to stakeholders
• Take corrective and preventive actions
• Make yourself available to team
• Managing risks and updating management about
the risks
• Provide moral support to the team
28. How a tool can help a Project Manager?
• Maintain Team member information
• Manage project requirements
• Manage project execution plan
• Manage risks & lesson learned
• Help team members to understand their tasks
• Manage defect information
• Manage team effort
• Generate Project Matrices for communication
30. How a project can be closed?
• Closure occurs:
• When project goals and objectives are met
• Management decision
• Prepare a closure report
• Present them to higher management
• Inform and circulate the approved closure report
• Archive the project deliveries
31. Assignment
• Requirement:
• You have been asked to design and develop a mobile
test automation framework
• What do you need to do (Evaluation Criteria)
• Let us know how you are going to approach this
project?
• What is the methodology you suggest? Why?
• What is the tool you recommend?
• Why you recommend that tool?
• Output of your assignment:
• Comprehensive report to cover evaluation criteria
Editor's Notes
Project is a unique endeavor which has defined goals and objects with defined beginning and end along with a defined budget.
The art and science of planning, organizing and managing resources to bring about the successful completion of specific project goals and objectives
Project Manager will obtain the relevant resources for the project and explain the team about the project objectives/ goals. During the planning Project Manager will reduce the project in to manageable tasks (usually with the help of team) and during the execution of the project plan Project Manager inform the status of the project to stakeholders and if there’s a deviation he/she made sure to take necessary precautions.
Baseline – Scope, Schedule
There are few others like, Critical Path Management (CPM), Critical Chain Project Management.
Identify initial project risks during the initiation stage
Update all the project stakeholders during the project kickoff meeting
Transfer the identified risks to project risk management plan
Categories the risks
Update them with the risk mitigation strategy
Maintain the risk plan in a frequent manner
Execute necessary actions according to the risk mitigation strategy
Inform Stakeholders about the status of the project risks
Mitigation strategy is all about taking advance and proactive actions, the probability of occurrence of risk and its impact is identified and calculated at an early stage so as to prevent the foreseen damage to the project. In short, risk Mitigation follows ‘Prevention is better than cure” dictum.
Contingency responses are the ones that get executed only when certain unwanted events occur. You do not execute contingency responses unless you see a warning sign that some risk is about to occur.
