Resources
Two people also asked about the difference between a product and a project and project management versus product management. Check out this pdf.
Several templates were circulated in class on September 1. There are available:
- 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)
C. C. Meyers fixes the maze — check out the story and see video clips.
We touched on management fashions in class on 9/15 — here is a great article on it. (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.
This is a template for an executive summary.
This is a guide for identifying tasks and building a Work Breakdown Structure.
This is the Risk Register from the lecture on Sept 29th and here is another one for your reference.
Risk Management Plan Examples: Formal and Detailed, High-Level, Basic, Completed Example