Workshop Overview
The Project Management workshop is intended for engineers, technical leads, project leaders, and functional managers who want to practice the fundamentals of project management to help themselves and their groups accomplish their endeavors, whether at work, in IEEE, at home, or in the community. Participants will learn basic project management techniques, and most importantly, how to apply them in real life without excessive paperwork or overhead! The workshop will include templates and checklists to take away, and examples of how to apply project management techniques to engineering, IEEE, and personal projects.

Workshop Content

1. Introduction
   • Definition of a Project
   • What is wrong with our projects?
   • Types of projects
   • Typical phases of a project
2. Starting and Planning a Project
   • Creating the project team
   • Defining the project scope
   • Defining the project requirements
   • Project risks
   • Scheduling and estimating
   • Creating milestones
   • Refining the Plans
   • Understand task dependency
   • Tradeoff decisions
3. Managing the Project
   • How do we use planning deliverables to tell if we are on track?
     • Track using milestones
     • Track using defect trend data
   • How do we use meetings and status to measure progress?
     • Team meeting members
     • Team meeting minutes
     • Effective status updates
   • How are design reviews and testing critical to gauging project progress?
     • Judging design completeness
     • Design reviews throughout the project to prevent defects
     • Judging product quality
   • Risk Management
4. Running Meetings
   • Planning Meetings
   • Meeting Sequence
   • Attendee list
   • Attitude: pre-selling, pre-coaching
   • Meeting Roles and Responsibilities
     • Leader
     • Facilitator
     • Recorder
     • Participants
   • Design/Document Reviews
5. Closing the Project
   • Identify ongoing assessment of customer satisfaction
   • Ensure adequate hand-offs to all groups
   • Archive project documents
   • Conduct a lessons-learned meeting
6. Illustrations and Examples
   The workshop will include:
   • Study case
   • Many examples of forms:
     • risk/issue form
     • meeting minute form
     • responsibility matrix form
   • An example of project tracking workbook from automotive projects

Documentation
Each attendee will be provided with:

• Hardcopy of all slides, examples, and project template forms
• CD containing softcopy of all slides, examples, and project template forms