Welcome to the World of Projects -Welcome to the Course!
                                    
                                        Course Welcome
                                            
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                                        Course Overview
                                            
                                    
                             
                            
                                Welcome to the World of Projects -Main Materials
                                    
                                        What Is a Project?
                                            
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                                        How Do We Define a Project?
                                            
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                                        Considering the Organization & Stakeholders
                                            
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                                        Project Success & Failure
                                            
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                                        The Making of Boyhood & British Airways T5 Examples
                                            
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                                        The Making of Boyhood and British Airways Terminal Five Examples
                                            
                                    
                                    
                                        The Making of Boyhood & British Airways T5 Summary
                                            
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                                        Project Life Cycle
                                            
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                                        HealthCare.gov (Supplemental Case Study)
                                            
                                    
                             
                            
                                Welcome to the World of Projects -Resources
                                    
                                        Week 1 Slides
                                            
                                    
                             
                            
                                The Ins & Outs of Project Planning-Main Materials
                                    
                                        Why Plan?
                                            
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                                        Detailed Scoping
                                            
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                                        Identifying Dependencies
                                            
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                                        Determine the Completion Date & Critical Path
                                            
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                                        How Do We Schedule?
                                            
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                                        What If I Don’t Like Planning? Making Changes
                                            
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                                        Reflecting on Common Mistakes
                                            
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                                        Virginia Festival of the Book (Supplemental Case Study)
                                            
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                                        Supplemental Tutorial: Getting Started with Microsoft Project
                                            
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                                The Ins & Outs of Project Planning-Resources
                                    
                                        Week 2 Slides
                                            
                                    
                             
                            
                                It’s a Risky World & Then the Unexpected Happened-Main Materials
                                    
                                        What Is Risky About Projects?
                                            
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                                        Identifying & Assessing Project Risks
                                            
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                                        A More Realistic Timeline Part I
                                            
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                                        A More Realistic Timeline Part II
                                            
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                                        Cost Risk Analysis
                                            
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                                        Planning for Ambiguity
                                            
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                                        Lumi Juice (Supplemental Case Study)
                                            
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                                        Supplemental Tutorial: Modeling Schedule Uncertainty Part I - Tornado Charts in Microsoft Excel
                                            
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                                        Supplemental Tutorial: Modeling Schedule Uncertainty Part II - Monte Carlo Simulations in Microsoft Excel
                                            
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                                It’s a Risky World & Then the Unexpected Happened-Resources
                                    
                                        Week 3 Slides
                                            
                                    
                             
                            
                                Ready, Set, Go: Project Execution-Main Materials
                                    
                                        From Plan to Action
                                            
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                                        Earned Value
                                            
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                                        Those Who Execute
                                            
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                                        Agile, Scrum, & Kanban
                                            
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                                        Supplemental Tutorial: Tracking Progress & Updating Project Plan in Microsoft Project
                                            
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                                        Salesforce.com (Supplemental Case Study)
                                            
                                    
                             
                            
                                Ready, Set, Go: Project Execution-Project Management in the Wild
                                    
                                        Project Management in the Wild
                                            
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                                        Project Management Case File #143
                                            
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                                        Project Management Case File #168
                                            
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                                Ready, Set, Go: Project Execution-Conclusion of the Course
                                    
                                        Course Conclusion
                                            
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                                Ready, Set, Go: Project Execution-Resources
                                    
                                        Week 4 Slides