Week 01 - Introduction
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Ice bucket challenge: here
ALS: here ----- Event management plan proforma: here Event schedule template: here Budget template: here ----- Fundraising plan examples: Heartland Institute, St. Mary’s River Watershed Association, Land Trust How to develop a plan: here, here and here A guide to special events fundraising: here Fundraising ideas: Gala performance and dinner (page 4), a selection of 12 award winning fundraising projects from around the world, a list of ideas, a list with expected amount earned, another list |
Week 02 - Project Environment, Life Cycle & Processes
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Alberta Economic Dashboard: here
Inventory of Major Projects in Alberta: here Canadian, Alberta & Corporate funding programs: here World immigration map (for 2007): here
Scope of Work Statement examples & tips: one, two, three and four
-- Examples of a Project Charter: Software, City of St. John, Software, Pipeline, Housing, Business Processes, Fisheries Plan, Wind Farm, IT services, Bridge Building, Hot Water Metering, Climate, Single Family House |
Week 03 - Weebly, Stakeholders & Project Management Plan
Week 04 - Scope & Time
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010 - scope
011 - wbs 012 - time 013 - time -- Thursday, October 23, 1 - 2:30 p.m. Guest Speaker: Chandra Ramalingam - Chandra is a Field Technical Coordinator with Japan Canada Oil Sands Limited (JACOS) |
PMI WBS examples: here
WBS samples - house, software, LNG WBS Dictionary Template - here (download) ----- --------- www.wbstool.com - an online WBS creation tool: here To save files securely you will need to create an account with the software provider: 1) click on the disk icon 2) click on Login 3) click on Register 4) fill out the form - You can also save files in the public folder but these are subject to change by any other user. - To save your file to your local hard drive click one of the four options in the Download Pane |
Week 05 - Time
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014 - time
015 - progress update 016 - schedule 016 - gantter notes -- Thursday, October 30, 9:30 - 11a.m. Guest Speaker: Ali Asghari - Mr. Asghari is currently a co-owner of a Calgary based Oil & Gas Company and also runs his own business offering management advisory services. |
Week 06 - Cost & Quality
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017 - cost
018 - quality -- Thursday, November 6, 12:30 - 2:30 Guest Speaker: Jacobet Edith Wambayi - Ms. Wambayi is a community outreach and public education worker at the Calgary Workers' Resource Centre - Topics: Employment Standards, Human Rights in the workplace and Occupational Health and Safety |
Week 07 - HR, Communications & Risk
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What is your communication style? - quiz: here
How good of a listener are you? - quiz: here Listening skills: here -- Communications Management Plan template: here The cost of poor communications - A PMI report: here -- Charts Online diagram drawing application: draw.io Chart diagram notation definitions: Flow chart - BPMN - UML - Azure - Entity Relationship A complex influence diagram: here |
Week 08 - Risk, Procurement & Stakeholder Management
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For you to do :
-- Project Charter, WBS, Schedule & more -- FINAL ASSIGNMENT outline sample -- A one page status report example: see "My One Page Project Status Report" here -- A Flow Chart describing a known process. Use draw.io Here are some diagram samples: here -- Risk Register Template: here Risk Management Plan Template: here Create your own Monte Carlo simulator! here -- Procurement management plan template: here -- RFP examples & bid opportunities: here , here, here and here -- Sample bid evaluation matrix: here ----- --------- A link to a list of many of the templates we've used and more: here |
Week 09 - Executing Process Group, Quality & Human Resources
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A one page project status report template: excel & pdf
-- Team role quiz: here The results of this quiz are based upon the Belbin 'team roles' of behavioural strengths and weaknesses. A summary of these roles can be found here. -- What is you negotiating style? here -- Personality type: Myers-Briggs type indicator assessment: here Myers-Briggs type indicator assessment interpretation: here - find your Star Wars personality equivalent here -- What motivates you quiz: here How to respond to the different motivation types: here -- Team health check questionnaire: here -- 5 dysfunctions assessment: here The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: summary here -- Behavioural Competencies: An extensive reference guide can be found here Is often discussed in relation to conducting interviews: here and here ----- --------- A good list of links to team building resources: here |
Week 10 - Communications, Procurement, Stakeholders and EMV
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Templates:
Change request, Change log and Change management plan: 1 & 2 -- Project milestone templates: 1, 2 & 3 -- A change management workbook Change management beyond PMI: 1, 2 & 3 -- A video introduction to Scrum Learn Scrum here Scrum (or similar) software offering free versions: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 -- Learn Prince2 here |
Week 11 - EVM & Closing035 - cost (evm)
036 - evm formula 037 - quality & communication 038 - procure & stake 039 - closing -- Thursday December 11, 1:00-2:30 Guest Speaker: Kim Hickson - Ms. Hickson is the Director of Staffing and Human Resources at FT Services |
Semaphore history:
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Week 12 - Review & Presentations |
I T T O - A spreadsheet of all (with some duplication) of the ITTOs
-- A PMBOK explorer showing "how the knowledge areas, processes, deliverables, and tools & techniques interconnect" -- The second best project management site in the world (created in German and not PMP based). Here are links to their interactive roadmap and desktop calendar and chart. It's also available for your android and apple phone. -- PMP talk: PMP hangout - general discussion PMP lessons learned - discussion by those who have passed the pmp exam A Linkedin project management discussion group Geoff Crane is a professor of project management at Durham College and author of the project management website The Papercut Project Manager - a very good site from an project management educator |