Applied Project Management in an IPD Environment (PMT1)

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Description:

Please Note: Students enrolling in this offering will be placed in a "Standby" status until your course prerequisites have been verified. You will be confirmed upon this verification.

Alert: this course has prerequisite assignments which must be 100% complete and a paper copy brought to class or the instructor will ask the student to leave the class. Please read the description carefully.

Applied Project Management in an IPD Environment is the "graduation course" of Tier 1 project management education for those project managers that use the Integrated Product Development process on their projects. In a hands-on setting, the course reviews, reinforces, and broadens the skills that students acquired in other Tier 1 courses. It also aligns the project, its products, and its tasks with the IPD process. Students spend most of their time in the course applying their skills and knowledge as part of a team on a comprehensive and intensive case study. Students receive feedback from the instructor and their peers on their work, how well they demonstrated project management skills, and on their performance in teams.

• Worldwide Project Management course PM30
• Professional Development Unit credit = 36.0 PDUs
• PMP Professional Development Activity Program Number - 1107-0000PM30
• PMP Professional Development Activity Program Title - Applied Project Management Using IPD (PMT1)

Audience:

The primary audience is Associate and Advisory Project Managers who use the IPD process for development, and have completed all other course clusters that comprise the Project Management Tier 1 curriculum.

Objectives:

Worldwide Project Management Method (WWPMM): Understand the application of WWPMM to project management in an IPD environment. Apply most of the work patterns. Generate selected work products and understand the use of those work products not selected. Integrated Product Development:

Understand:

• Key organizational roles
• The role of the project manager in each phase of development
• The major project management products and tasks by project phase.
• Apply the WWPMM domains to IPD development
• Integrated Project Planning: Understand the need for consolidating project records, reconciling the management plans, and monitoring and controlling the project through plan updates.
• Risk Management: Apply the concepts in the WWPMM domain: Risk Management to a project.
• Breakdown Structures: Generate and refine an Organizational Breakdown Structure, a Product Breakdown Structure and a Work Breakdown Structure for a project.
• Scheduling: Apply project scheduling as defined in the WWPMM domain: Project management and operational schedules.  
• Project Control: Apply project control as defined in the WWPMM domains: Tracking and control, and Event management.  
• Cost/Financial Management: Apply project financial management as defined in the WWPMM domain: Work plan management and subdomains within the domain: Tracking and control.
• Change Management: Apply project change control as defined in the WWPMM domain: Change management.  
• Assessing Opportunity: Understand the activities of the Investment Review Boards, Strategic Review Board, and Market Planning prior to project formation by the Integrated Portfolio Management Team and chartering of the Product Development Team.
• Starting a Project: Know what the key startup IPD milestones are, the WWPMM work products for project startup, and the major work items to be completed as defined in the WWPMM work patterns.  
• Requirements Analysis: Identify stakeholders, and review project communications, such as marketing notes, to extract requirements.  
• Estimating: Understand various project / subproject size estimating methodologies, and be able to apply at least two methods to a project.
• Closing a Project: Understand the three WWPMM work patterns for closing a project. Understand a typical relationship between a product development team and a life cycle management team.
• Leadership: Demonstrate the ability to manage relationships between groups, and lead a team through resolution of an issue or problem.
• Contracting: Understand the concepts in the WWPMM domain: Supplier management.  
• PM Tool Usage in an IPD environment: Recognize some of the advantages and challenges of PM tool use.  
• Various Roles of Project Managers: Understand how to determine the amount of control and authority that has been given to the project manager on a project, and what the expectations are of the project manager.

Prerequisites:

Student must have completed all prerequisite courses in the Project Management Tier 1 curriculum. Where equivalency has been determined for a course, the equivalence will constitute meeting that course requirement.

This course has a mandatory pre-class assignment.  To download the pre-class assignment, go to http://w3.ibm.com/transform/project/education/preclass and select Mandatory Pre-course Exercises. The pre-class assignment files are listed under the course title. Enrolled students should plan to spend 6 to 8 hours on the assignment. Students will not be admitted to the classroom part of the workshop if they do not give the facilitator a completed pre class assignment.

Students who have not fulfilled prerequisite requirements will not be admitted to the class.

A fundamental understanding by students of their business unit's approach to practicing Integrated Product Development (IPD) will be helpful in relating their work environment to the fundamental process approach taught in the course. It is highly recommended that students study their business unit's approach to IPD prior to attending the course. IBM Group IPD process information is available at the following URL: http://w3-1.ibm.com/transform/ipd/ .

It is also highly recommended that students have a basic understanding of the Worldwide Project Management Method.

Topics:

• Worldwide Project Management Method (WWPMM)
• Integrated Product Development
• Integrated Project Planning
• Risk Management
• Work Breakdown Structure
• Scheduling
• Project Control
• Cost/Financial Management
• Change Management
• Assessing Opportunity
• Starting a Project
• Requirements Analysis
• Estimating
• Closing a Project
• Leadership
• Contracting
• PM Tool Usage in an IPD environment
• Various Roles of Project Managers