Software Project Management Using Ms Projects Professional

Become IT Project Management & SDLC expert-gain confidence in Waterfall, Agile and Kanban methodologies with MS projects

What you'll learn
This course would explain the critical software project management framework and concepts through presentation,demonstrations and case study using MS project professional
Experienced project manager can pick up skills of MS project professional as a beginner and start using MS project professional for their project
Learning is easier through application & activities
Apart from Waterfall methodology, its one among the first course to cover Agile and Kanban Methodology through the latest version of MS projects professional built in functionality.
Easily understand Critical Path and Earned value analysis through application
Case study on water fall methodology to understand project concepts / framework and MS project professional easier
Requirements
Interest to work in IT projects
It would benefit participants greatly, if MS project profession 2016 is installed on their system - even a trail version
Even without MS project installed, the participants can learn Project Management concepts through presentation and demonstration
Description
Easily understand project management frame work, concepts and become an expert project manager by using software tool - MS projects professional.  There are activities and even a case study, which make learning inquisitive and fun. Further more, this covers waterfall ,agile  and Kanban project methodologies. As tool like MS project is used, you will also easily understand Software Development Life cycle as well (SDLC)In this course, you will learn about project management framework and important concepts in line with PMI's, PMBOK(Project Management Body Of Knowledge) using MS project 2016. As project management framework /concepts is more theoretical and in absence of practical exposure, it could be difficult for beginners to understand and  appreciate the same. This is where, one can learn and appreciate them effectively, through the use of  a tool or application and more particularly by using a 'simulated' business scenario case study.With this in mind, have designed this course and used MS projects 2016 important features, to present the project management framework and concepts, in easily understandable manner. Additionally, have also used the  most recent built in agile  and kanban functionality in MS project professional 2016 to demonstrate agile method of project execution. If you are a computer science student or a graduate planning for career in IT  or a software developer  who wants to understand project management, then this course would help to demystify just not only project management but also learn about critical feature in MS projects professional 2016. To make learning easier, I have built quiz exercises and more importantly have - case study included, which the participants are expected to build, baseline, execute and analyse results as a simulated project using MS project.This course will also be beneficial to experienced folks as well, who wish to learn MS project professional 2016. But, the features explained in the course would be to the extend of understanding project management framework & concepts and not all features of MS project features would have been explained. However, many a times, even experienced folks would not use all the  product features just like any other application or MS office products and learn them as and when required, once basics are understood. Earn up to 5 PDUs on Education, if you are already PMP certified.This course has following sessionsIntroduction : Important  project management concepts and overview / features of MS project 2016 are presented InitiationPlanning : Includes scheduling, CPM and estimation.Manage and control : Includes Earned value analysis .Case studyClosingAgile methodologyKanban methodologyAdditional Bonus - An overview about Cloud PPM and brief about other knowledge areas from PMBOK perspective.This course focuses specifically on  Time, Cost  and Scope management which is considered as 'triple' constraint in any project along with basics of Risk management. Once the participants of good understanding on them the rest of the project management knowledge areas like Integration,Procurement, Quality, Human resources, Communication and Stakeholders could be simpler. Further more, most of these knowledge areas are customized based on the organization, industry one is associated.Finally,  the participant would not only learn about MS project 2016, but also use the same to learn Project management framework and concept for easier and effective learning. Though project management topic is generic and used across industry, this course is specifically focuses on Software product & services industry examples.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 – Happy Learning.

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Course overview

Lecture 2 What is project and what is schedule

Lecture 3 Project cost and scope

Lecture 4 Who are project stakeholders

Lecture 5 An overview about Project process and knowledge area from PMBOK,PMI perspective

Lecture 6 Software project types - Based on development approach

Lecture 7 Software project types - based on contract

Lecture 8 Critical constraints in project known as triple constraint

Lecture 9 Microsoft Project overview - Task, schedule duration, Gantt chart

Lecture 10 Microsoft Project - Calendar

Lecture 11 Microsoft Project - Resources type

Lecture 12 Microsoft project - Currency

Section 2: Project Initiation - Waterfall

Lecture 13 Project Initiation

Section 3: Project Planning - Waterfall

Lecture 14 Project Planning - WBS, Tasks, Relationship type, Network diagram

Lecture 15 Project Planning - Forward pass, Backward Pass, Critical Path, PERT

Lecture 16 Microsoft Project - Critical Path

Lecture 17 Microsoft Project - Resource Leveling

Lecture 18 Microsoft Project - Building a simple project

Lecture 19 Microsoft Project - Review Critical path, slack

Lecture 20 Software Project estimation overview

Lecture 21 Software Project estimation - Function point analysis and COCOMO

Lecture 22 Dangers in unrealistic estimate

Section 4: Project Execution and Control - Waterfall

Lecture 23 Software Project Execution - scenario

Lecture 24 Software Project Execution scenario analysis

Lecture 25 Software project control - Earned values analysis - Overview

Lecture 26 Software Project control - Case scenario anlysis

Lecture 27 Microsoft Project - Earned Value analysis

Lecture 28 Software project - Configuration and Release management - Overview

Lecture 29 Software Project - Risk Management - Overview

Section 5: Case study using MS project - Waterfall

Lecture 30 Case study overview

Lecture 31 Case study details and review

Lecture 32 Case study details and review - Continued

Lecture 33 Case study - Solution Review

Lecture 34 Case study - Solution Review - contd 1

Lecture 35 Case study - Solution Review - contd 2

Lecture 36 Case Study - Lesson Learnt - Scope creep and contigency

Section 6: Project Closure - Waterfall

Lecture 37 Project Closure

Section 7: Agile Methodology

Lecture 38 Agile VS Waterfall method of development

Lecture 39 Agile Scrum Framework

Lecture 40 Mapping Product backlog, sprint backlog and Sprint

Lecture 41 Example - Product backlog, Sprint backlog and sprint

Lecture 42 Microsoft Projects - Agile Menu Navigation

Lecture 43 Microsoft Projects - Agile Sprint Execution

Lecture 44 Microsoft Project - Agile Reporting

Section 8: Kanban Methodology

Lecture 45 Agile Scrum vs Kanban

Lecture 46 Microsoft Project - Kanban demonstration

Section 9: Additional - Presentations

Lecture 47 Limitation of Desktop version of Project and Portfolio Application

Lecture 48 Cloud Based Project and Portfolio Application

Lecture 49 Other Knowledge Areas - PMBOK, PMI

Section 10: Bonus Presentation

Lecture 50 Other courses

Student who have Software Project Management as a subject in their College / University Curriculum,Graduate students who are looking for career in IT industry and learn about project management/ MS Projects,IT developers , who wish to learn Project Management and plan to take up certification later