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Eğitim Katılım Formu:https://form.iyte.edu.tr/view.php?id=456639

Eğitim Katılım Şartı: Üniversite öğrencisi veya mezunu olmak

Son Kayıt Tarihi:20.11.2023

Eğitim Ücreti:3.200TL(KDV Dahil)

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Course Outline for

Project Management

Syllabus 

Lectures: Weekdays 16:30 to 19:30

Office Hours: via appointment or after course sessions

Instructor:         Berat Alper Erol, PhD

Department of Computer Engineering Email: beraterol@iyte.edu.tr

Textbook: There is absolutely NOT required textbook. The following sources will be used and referenced frequently during the lectures.

1

[PMI]

A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge: PMBOK® Guide (6th Ed.), Project Management Institute, 2017.

2

[PRINCE2]

Managing Successful Projects with PRINCE2 (2017 Ed.), The Stationery Office, 2017.

3

[Villafiorita]

Introduction to Software Project Management (1st Ed.), Adolfo Villafiorita, Auerbach Publications, 2014.

4

[Cobb]

The Project Manager’s Guide to Mastering Agile, Charles G. Cobb, Wiley, 2015.

5

[Greene]

Head First PMP (4th Ed.), Jennifer Greene and Andrew Stellman, O’Reilly, 2018

6

[Goodpasture]

Project management the agile way: making it work in the enterprise (2nd Ed.), John C. Goodpasture, J. Ross Publishing, 2016.

7

[Project101X] *

AdelaideX: Project101x Introduction to Project Management, a course at edx.org, The Project101X Team.

8

[Grushka-Cockayne] *

Fundamentals of Project Planning and Management, a course at coursera.org, Yael Grushka-Cockayne.

9

[Meloni] *

Initiating and Planning Projects, a course at coursera.org, Margaret Meloni.

10

[Johnson] *

Applied Scrum for Agile Project Management, a course at edx.org, John Johnson.

11

[Orso] *

Software Development Process, a course at udacity.com, Alex Orso.

12

[Schwalbe]

Information Technology Project Management (8th Ed.), Kathy Schwalbe, Cengage Learning, 2016.

13

[Clarke]

The situational factors that affect the software development process: Towards a comprehensive reference framework, Paul Clarke and Rory V. O’Connor, Information and Software Technology, 2012.

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Prerequisites: It is required for enrolled students to set up their workstations/equipment during the entire course week due to the fundamental learning concepts for accessing the course materials, lecture notes/slides and submitting their assignments/quizzes/exams/projects, as suggested by the IZTECH.

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 Course Style: The course requires the students to be self-motivated and be willing to self-learn during the time between lectures. The class time will be used mainly for discussions.

Topics:

  1. An Introduction to Project Management
  2. Software Development Process
  3. Plan-driven and Agile Approaches to Project Management
  4. Project Planning: Scope and Time Management
  5. Project Planning: Cost and Risk Management
  6. Project Resource, Stakeholder and Communication Management
  7. Project Execution, Monitoring and Controlling
  8. Agile Project Management
  9. Scrum
  10. Case studies

Attendance:

No penalties will be incurred for absences during the regular class hours. However, it is your responsibility to talk to your classmates and keep abreast of topics covered, announcements and assignments given during missed classes. Try your level best to attend each lecture!

Evaluation Methods:

  1. Homework 40%
  2. Final Examination 60%

Grading: A certificate will be awarded to those who completed the course successfully, minimum 70% mark on the final grade. A participation document may be given to those attendees who failed in the evaluation but attended 50% of lecture hours.

Late Submission Policy for Assignments: Each assignment/project is due at a pre-specified time. Your instructor may grant a no-penalty turn-in extension for absences resulting from illness or other legitimate extenuating circumstance. These requests should be made in advance. The late policy for the course is as follows:

How Late?

Penalty

Max Grade

< 24 hours

20 %

80%

24 to 48 hours

40 %

60%

48 to 72 hours

80 %

20%

> 72 hours

90%

10%

Workload and Homework: You should expect to spend three to five hours of reading and completing homework assignments each week. Some students will find that more time is needed while others will require less time. Homework should be turned in adhering to the following rules:

  1. Use A4 paper (physical or in your preferred office software suites)
  2. Write on both side of the paper
  3. Identify your final answer clearly (for example, enclose it in a box)
  4. Write your name, date, and homework description in the right top corner of the first homework page
  5. Staple in the upper left corner (if turning it in by hand)

Quizzes and Exams:

Quizzes: Quizzes are not included in the assessment.

Exam: This course will have one final exam. All material presented prior to the exams could be tested. If you miss your exam, you will receive ZERO unless you have a physician’s documentation of your illness or other appropriate documents accepted by IZTECH describing an emergency beyond your control.

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE

Week

Lecture

Topics

Resources

1

1

An Introduction to Project Management

[PMI] Chapter 1 (Introduction)

[PRINCE2] Chapter 2 (Project Management with PRINCE2)

1

1

An Introduction to Software Development Process

Plan-driven and Agile Approaches to Project Management

[Orso] Lesson 1 (Introduction and Overview) and 2 (Life Cycle Models) [Cobb] Chapter 2 (Agile History and the Agile Manifesto)

Visit https://agilemanifesto.org/

[Clarke] Section 1 (Introduction) and 5.1 (Utilising the initial reference framework); focus on Table 3 and Figure 2.

1

2

Project Initiation

Project Planning: Scope and Time Management

[Wiegers] Chapter 5 (Establishing the business requirements) [Wiegers] Appendix C (Vision and Scope Document)

[Cobb] Appendix C (Example Project/Program Charter Template) [Grushka-Cockayne] Lesson 1 (Welcome to the World of Projects)

[Meloni] Lesson 2 (What is a Project?) and 3 (Get to Know your Stakeholders)

1

2

Project Planning: Scope and Time Management

[Grushka-Cockayne] Lesson 2 (The Ins & Outs of Project Planning) [Meloni] Lesson 3 (Scope Matters)

1

3

Project Planning: Scope and Time Management

[Villafiorita] Chapter 3.3 (Deciding the Work), 3.4.1 (Effort, Duration, and Resources),

3.4.2 (The “Quick” Approach to Estimation), 3.4.3 (The Uncertainty of Estimations), 3.5 (Scheduling a Plan), 3.6 (Optimizing a Plan)

1

4

Project Planning: Cost and Risk Management

[Villafiorita] Chapter 3.7 (Budgeting and Accounting) and 4.2 (Risk Management) [Grushka-Cockayne] Lesson 3 (It’s a Risky World & Then the Unexpected Happened)

1

5

Project Planning: Project Resource, Stakeholder and Communication Management

[Villafiorita] Chapter 5.1 (Managing People)

[Greene] Chapter 13 (Stakeholder management: Keeping everyone engaged) and 10 (Communications management: Getting the word out)

2

5

Project Execution, Monitoring and Controlling Project Closure

[Villafiorita] Chapter 3.8 (Project Execution), 3.9 (Project Monitoring and Control), 3.10 (Project Closing)

2

6

Case Study

Case Study: JWD Consulting’s Project Management Intranet Site Project from [Schwalbe]

2

7

Agile Project Management

[Cobb] Chapter 4 (Agile Planning, Requirements, and Product Backlog) and 7 (Agile Estimation)

2

8

Agile Project Management

[Cobb] Chapter 8 (Agile Project Management Role) and 9 (Agile Communications and Tools)

2

9

Scrum

Scrum Guide at https://www.scrumguides.org/index.html [Cobb] Chapter 3 (Scrum Overview)

[Johnson] Lesson 3 (How to Scrum and be Agile?)

2

10

Final Exam

 

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