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Project Management
  (the beginning)
      Miles Metcalfe
One secret
Communication
What is a project?

• Finite duration
• Definite scope
• When it ends, something has changed
What is not project
    management

• Personal productivity – your todo list
• People management
• Operations management
Balance quadrant

   Cost          Quality

           Balance

   Scope             Time
Finding a project
Stakeholders
Risks
Proposal

• What does it solve?
• Why is that important?
• How much will it cost?
Start-up
• What
 • Objective
 • Deliverables (to achieve the objective)
• Rationale – why
• When
• Who
Tooling
Simple tips

• Mindmapping is useful for
 • Discovery
 • Scoping
 • Stakeholders
Beginning the plan

• Product-based
• Breaking down the work
• Estimating
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