It can be tempting to jump right into a web project—or any project— without establishing clear goals, requirements, necessary resources, and a plan. But good project management processes and practices are essential for completing projects successfully…
On November 15th, at 2:00PM, members of the ITS Project Management Office will present on PM best practices. The presentation is a good introduction to the topic and will also be applicable to those who have led or contributed to many projects. Kathy Kyzer and Amy Shoop are both PMP Certified (Project Management Professional) by the Project Management Institute and have guided several projects at the university — both big and small. They will be speaking on areas such as:
- Overview – What is a project?
- Addressing common challenges – Resources, communications, change management, setting expectations, prioritization, and risk
- Project phases and lifecycle
- Obtaining project management templates such as project initiation documents, project plan, change requests and lessons learned
- Methodologies (Waterfall, Agile, etc.)
- Tools and tips
After the presentation, if time, we’ll consider how a real-world example might be set up for success. For example, let’s look at something like “E-mail newsletter project”– or your suggestion. How might this be organized and what are the questions to answer in terms of client/organization goals, resource needs and constraints, timeline factors, budget (or lack of) and so on.
Please pass this info on to any colleagues that you think would benefit from the presentation. 🙂
Location: Grad Student Center (http://gradschool.unc.edu/student/gsc/)
Date: Thursday, November 15
Time: 2:00p.m. – 3:00 or 3:30p.m