General
The Textbook for this course is called “Effective Project Management: Traditional, Agile, Extreme” 5th Edition (2009) by Robert K. Wysocki.
The Wikipedia Page for Timeline of Project Management.
Templates
- Project Management Planning: Project Management Format
- Project Management Template (adapted from PMBOK and IEEE “best practices”)
- Project Management Plan (from process impact)
- Project Plan Template
- Project Plan (State of Minnesota)
- Executive Summary Template
Examples
- This is a guide for identifying tasks and building a Work Breakdown Structure.
- This is the Risk Register from the lecture on Sept 27th and here is another one for your reference.
- Risk Management Plan Examples: Formal and Detailed, High-Level, Basic, Completed Example
User Stories
- 5 Common Mistakes We Make Writing User Stories
- User Story Examples and Counterexamples
- Introduction to User Stories
- User Story Template
Guest Speakers
- Brendan Moriarty’s slides [ppt]
- Dudley Emmert slides [ppt]
- C.C. Myers slides [pdf]
- Drew Feraios slides [ppt]
Other
C. C. Myers fixes the maze — check out the story and see video clips.
Here is a great article on management fashions. (Eric Abrahamson and Micki Eisenman. “Employee-management Techniques: Transient Fads or Trending Fashions?” Administrative Science Quarterly 2008 53: 719). This dissertation has an amazing summary of management literature in it’s first pages, if you are very interested. The Appropriation of Ideas, Theories, Concepts and Models by Management Practitioners. by L. Robinson, May 2010.