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Project Management Workshop
By Nadun De Silva

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Who Am I ?
Nadun De Silva
• Project Manager in profession
• 6+ years of IT Industry Experience
• Graduated from Faculty of Applied Science, USJP ‘2010
• Project Management Qualifications – PMP, PMI-ACP, CSM, CSPO,
SAFe-Agilist
• Worked with Government bodies, Local Private Companies, Fortune
500 companies
• Led Teams (co-located, remote, vendors)

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Who Are You?
• Who heard about project management?
• Have you ever managed a project?
• What would you like to know?

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The Plan
• Introduction of Project Management
profession
• Project Management principles
• Motivation for practices
• Emphasizing the importance of Project
Management tools

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What is a Project?

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What is Project Management?

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Who is the Project Manager (PM) ?

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Who is a good Project Manager?

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What is Project Manager’s responsibility?

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Who is the Project Team?

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Why Projects Fail?
• Poor Communication
• Poorly defined project goals and objectives
• Poor Management
• Disagreements and misunderstandings
• Personal Conflicts

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Project Success

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Project Management – Key Definitions
• Stakeholder
• Roles
• Communication
• Scope
• Requirement
• Deliverable
• Baseline
• Change
• Re-work
• Risk
• Assumption
• Constraint
• WBS
• Estimate
• Schedule
• Earned Value
• Forecasting
• Quality
• Acceptance
• Lesson Learned

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Basic Principles of Project Management
• Project structure
• Definition phase
• Clear goals
• Transparency about project status
• Risk recognition
• Managing project disturbances
• Responsibility of the project manager
• Project success

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What are the available PM Methodologies?
• The Traditional, Sequential Methodologies
• The Agile Methodologies
• The Process-based Methodologies
• Other Methodologies

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Traditional/ Sequential Methodologies
• Waterfall

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The Agile Methodologies

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The Process-based Methodologies
• Lean • Six Sigma

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Other Methodologies
• PIM/PMBOK • PRINCE2

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How to select the correct PM Methodology?
• Listen to your client
• Obtain a clear idea about solution/ end
deliverable
• Consider about the Project constraints
• Get the higher management preference
• Have a good understanding about your
project team
• Think about what’s already working in your
company, or identify the problem

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Exercise – Building A Tower
• Initiation:
• Team structure: 5 Students
• Resources: 20 sheets (waste A4 sheets) per group
• Requirement:
• What to build? A paper tower
• How tall it should be? Maximum
• Other requirements? Should be stable and good looking
• Planning: Each team will be given 5 minutes.
• Execution & Monitoring: Each team will be given 30
minutes
• Closure: Each team will be given 2 minutes to present

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How To Start Your Project?
• Understand the Business requirement, client nature
• Determine on the practice/methodology
• Team formation
• Identify the stakeholders (other than the team)
• Layout the project plan with the team
• Identify the initial project risks and assumptions
• Estimate for the Project and determine on the project
end date
• Kick-off the project

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During the Project Execution as a PM
• Assist team members to clear their project blockers
• Understand the project progress and its deviations
• Communicate the progress to stakeholders
• Take corrective and preventive actions
• Make yourself available to team
• Managing risks and updating management about
the risks
• Provide moral support to the team

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Industry Practice with Risk Management

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What are the common types of Risks?
• Scope
• Schedule
• Budget
• Resource
• Technology
• Third Party

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Techniques to Mitigate Risks

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Risk Mitigation Vs Contingency

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How a tool can help a Project Manager?
• Maintain Team member information
• Manage project requirements
• Manage project execution plan
• Manage risks & lesson learned
• Help team members to understand their tasks
• Manage defect information
• Manage team effort
• Generate Project Matrices for communication

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What are the available PM tools?

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How a project can be closed?
• Closure occurs:
• When project goals and objectives are met
• Management decision
• Prepare a closure report
• Present them to higher management
• Inform and circulate the approved closure report
• Archive the project deliveries

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Assignment
• Requirement:
• You have been asked to design and develop a mobile
test automation framework
• What do you need to do (Evaluation Criteria)
• Let us know how you are going to approach this
project?
• What is the methodology you suggest? Why?
• What is the tool you recommend?
• Why you recommend that tool?
• Output of your assignment:
• Comprehensive report to cover evaluation criteria