Supervision on project management

Location: In the corridor outside VIC!

The most important for all of you now is to understand your area/domain and to be able to focus the problem you'll be working on and define the scale of the project. 

Some relevant project management pointers at this stage:

• Analyse the project information (so far)

    - What’s the project about? Start formulating

    - What are the goals?

• What do you know, what do you need to know more of?

• What are prerequisites and what’s up to you to define/decide?

• What are the external resources (tech, personnel, etc)

• Initial risk analysis

• Agree on a project leader – and give him/her the mandate!

• Agree on the initial work organisation: e.g. meeting formalities, sanctions, availability of work force, etc

• Set up a joint work/documentation area of some kind – assign as action point (AP) to someone

• Do a competence and expectations inventory

• Discuss on relevant roles in your project (based on your analysis)

• Do an initial responsibility matrix (probably with very few tasks still…)

• Do the overview planning (all the way up to mid-December, the latter half tentative)

• Set milestones (again, latter half tentative)

• Discuss relevant activities

• Turn activities -> tasks (particularly now in the beginning)

• Initial dependencies between tasks and milestones