RMG Sustainability Council (RSC)

▪ Methodology: Step-by-step approach with templates and instructor feedback. ▪ Planning: Scope, schedule & budget using WBS, CPM, and story points. ▪ Collaboration: Enhance presentations & meetings with live feedback. ▪ Monitoring: Track progress using velocity, burndown charts & earned value. ▪ Closure: Prepare closure documents, lessons learned & retrospectives.

Module 1: Project Management Overview

• Definition of a Project
• Projects Deliver
• Key Concepts
• Role of the Project Manager
• Enterprise Environmental Factors (EEF)
• Organizational process Assets (OPA)
• Brief discussion on the Project Management Process Groups and Knowledge Areas
• Project & Development life cycle
• Type of Project Management Organizational Structure

Module 2: Defining the Project

• Project Stakeholders
• Definition of a Team & Team Management
• Why do projects get initiated?
• What is a Project Charter?
• Team Charter
• Conflict Management
• Brief overview on the Tuckman Ladder Stages
• Exercise: Create a Project Charter

Module 3: Organizing the Scope

• Elaborating Project Scope
• Guidelines to develop a Project Scope Statement
• The Work Breakdown Structure
• Work Packages
• Exercise: Create a WBS

Module 4: Scheduling the Project

• Project Schedule
• Purpose of Scheduling
• Scheduling Process
• Responsibility Assignment Matrix
• Activity Estimates
• Workshop: The Critical Path

Module 5: Project Budgeting

• Estimation Techniques: Analogous, Parametric, Three points
• Project Budgets
• Contingency and management reserve
• Cost baselines

Module 6: Identifying and Managing and Managing project risk

• Risk Management
• Risk Management Process

Module 7: Other Subsidiary Plans

• Communication management
• Stakeholder management
• Procurement management

Module 8: Baselining the Project

•  Project Baselines
•  Exercise: Impact of the project baselines.

Module 9: Understanding agile and scrum

• Agile values and principles
• Agile project context
• Scrum framework
• Agile Mindset
• Challenges the Status Quo
• Servant Leadership
• Business value and Product vision
• Address and remove Impediments, Obstacles, and Blockers
• Brief overview on the Continuous Improvement (CI) – Kaizen, PDSA etc. Closing the Project

Module 10: Starting an agile project

• Understanding need
• Minimum viable product
• Workshop: Product Roadmap
• Workshop: Product Backlog Item (PBI)

Module 11: Planning a sprint

• Prioritizing backlog
• Refining backlog and user story
• story point estimation
• Workshop: Sprint Backlog

Module 12: managing project and focusing on velocity

• Daily Meeting
• removing team roadblocks
• Kanban board

Module 13: Closing agile project

• Workshop: Sprint review
• Workshop: Retrospective