 |
MATURE SOFTWARE PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Title: Mature Software Project Management
Speaker: Mark Paulk
Location: Buliding 23 Room 118
Register
Directions
Start Date/Time: 04.18.06, 9 AM
End Date/Time: 04.19.06, 5 PM
2-Day Intensive Course
April 18-19, 2006
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Effective project management is a prerequisite for meeting commitments, yet all too many software projects fail to meet expectations for functionality, schedule, budget, and quality. The purpose of this seminar is to acquaint the attendee with current thinking on effective project management. Attendees explore important project management questions with alternative answers contingent on the context. The management philosophies discussed range from traditional project management techniques, such as earned value, to critical chain project management and agile methods.
Who Should Attend:
* Current project managers who wish to explore alternative ways of addressing project management challenges.
* Aspiring project managers who wish to better understand the project management challenges.
* Executives interested in their role in establishing a more effective project management system.
* Customers frustrated with their software suppliers and wish to support improved performance.
Benefits:
* Insights into project management challenges and tradeoffs.
* A better understanding of
* Traditional project management methods
* Critical chain project management
* Management in agile methods
* A foundation for continually improving the project management system.
Topics
* Placing project management in a context of continual process improvement.
* Considering alternative techniques for dealing with uncertainty and managing risks.
* Placing appropriate emphases on people, process, and technology.
* Managing the relationship with – and the expectations of – the customer, end users, partners, and suppliers.
* Balancing the trade-off between planning and being responsive to change.
* Defining what “success” really means for your project.
Continental breafast and lunch included.
More Information
Pricing:
General Admission: $1880
CMU Alumni: $500
CMU Faculty & Staff: $250
CMU Students: $150
Contact:
Diane Dimeff
diane.dimeff@west.cmu.edu
Sponsored By: Professional Development Center
Speaker(s):
 |
Mark Paulk
|
|
|
Visiting Lecturer
|
Overview
Mark is a Senior Systems Scientist at Carnegie Mellon University. He is currently working on the eSourcing Capability Model for Service Providers (eSCM-SP) and related sourcing topics for the IT Services Qualification Center. His research interests center on high maturity practices, statistical analysis and control of software processes, and agile methods.
From 1987 to 2002, Mark was with the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon. He was the project leader during the development of the Capability Maturity Model for Software.
Prior to joining Carnegie Mellon, Mark was a Senior Systems Analyst for System Development Corporation at the Ballistic Missile Defense Advanced Research Center in Huntsville, Alabama. While at SDC, he worked on distributed, hard real-time systems.
Mark received his PhD in industrial engineering from the University of Pittsburgh, his MS in computer science from Vanderbilt University, and his BS in mathematics and computer science from the University of Alabama in Huntsville. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE, a Senior Member of the ASQ, and an ASQ Certified Software Quality Engineer.
|
|
