Using Lifecycles to Design Your Project
Workshop Objective: If you’re dreading the next project—because you know it will be a disaster, or at the very least uncomfortable—it’s time to think about designing your next project.
We’re accustomed to thinking about designing products or tests, but projects? Is it really possible to design a project? Yes. Lifecycles, those idealized approaches to organizing projects allow us to design a project—just the way we want the project to unfold. This workshop is based on my project management book: Manage It! Your Guide to Modern, Pragmatic Project Management.
Workshop Overview: You will learn about the four major types of lifecycles, when each is useful. We’ll discuss how to combine lifecycles to design your project. You’ll have a chance to use each lifecycle on a real (albeit small) project, to see how each lifecycle works. We’ll discuss how to help your project team see how to use the lifecycle you choose.
Target Audience: Project managers, program managers, functional managers, technical leads, product owners, technical project staff.
Prerequisites: Experience on a project
Workshop Duration: 1 day.
Workshop Outline:
- Introduction
- Gather participant issues about projects and what they want to know
- What you need to know about lifecycles
- How quality affects lifecycle choice
- How different lifecycles manage risks differently
- Combining lifecycles
- Practice with projects
- Activities: Plan and execute four projects, debriefing after each
- What your managers need
- What to measure when for each kind of lifecycle
- How to present those measurements
- Summary and Wrap-up
Contact me for the extended description or to book this workshop.
