IDU3390 - Information Systems Project Management

email: kumlander @ gmail . com

2013-2014

2014: Results: [Excel]

Additional exam: 2014-06-18: VI-204: 16:00. Registration via OIS is mandatory.

2014-03-12: Current task

1. Find a project you will be building a project plan for (somekind information system)
2. Find a topic to present write an essay and present during exercise hours (15 minutes): either an article or a presentation.
3. Complete the initial documentation.
4. Complete the status report.
5. Start the final report.
6. Decide on a date you do the presentation.
7. Complete specification.
8. Do the presentation.
9. Exam (lectures)

Exercises

• W1 (2014-02-05): Introduction
• W2 (2014-02-12): Exercise: Create a projet using Excel
  • General well-formed Excel planning
  • Exercise description (restrictions to follow)
  • Expected result
• W3 (2014-02-19): We learn MS Project functionality together: guided creation of a project
• W4 (2014-02-26): Individual work following earlier learned (you can ask for my assistance): Create a project similar to the following [jpg]
• W5 (2014-03-05): Individual work on project documentation using university computers
• W6 (2014-03-12): Individual work on project documentation using university computers
• W7 (2014-03-19): We learn MS Project functionality together: guided project modifications: baseline, tracking, cost.
• W8 (2014-03-26): Individual work following earlier learned (you can ask for my assistance): Requirements
  Earned value management
• W9 (2014-04-02): Individual work on project documentation using university computers
• W10 (2014-04-09): Individual work on project documentation using university computers
• W11 (2014-04-16): Individual work on project documentation using university computers
• w12 (2014-04-23): Individual work on project documentation using university computers
• w13 (2014-04-30): Individual work on project documentation using university computers
• w14 (2014-05-07): Presentations
• W15 (2014-05-14): Presentations
• W16 (2014-05-21): Presentations

RULES

• Individual work will give you 56 points [overview (pdf)]:
  • Project documentation
    • Initial documentation    -   28p [specification (pdf), sample (pdf)]
    • Project status report    -   10p [specification (pdf), sample (pdf)]
      Earned value management
    • Final project report    -   10p [specification (pdf), sample (pdf)]
  • Specification of an information system from the project  8p [specification - see "Initial document" one above, sample (pdf)]
    
  Note: Each item presented after the deadline will give you only 50%.
• Essay and presentation  14p
• Exam: 2 questions – each gives 15 points

DEADLINES

• Project initial documentation - 28.03.2014
• Project status report - 23.04.2013
• Final report - 07.05.2014
• Specification of an information system - 14.05.2014
• Essay and presentation
  • Topic - 25.02.2014
  • Essay - 11.03.2014
  • Presentations - 30.04.2014 - 21.05.2014

Notes

If you are connected to any project in your professional life then you can use (develop) it unless it contains any private or confidential information. The project can be either building an information system (software) or changing an existing one.

A project documentation should be created using: plan - MS project (or similar software), other documents - any word processor (for example MS Word) - here we expect first of all textual information. Pictures and drawings are welcome, but those are not obligatory except, may be, the spec for the information system.

Exam

Exams

• 28.05.2014: VIA-204, 16:00-17:30
• 04.06.2014: VIA-204, 16:00-17:30

1. Scope planning:
   1. In scope planning we must ...
   2. Product scope, Project scope.
   3. Project scope includes ...
   4. Scope planning steps
   5. Vision, Goals, requirements and definition of those
   6. Requit´rements: purpose, functional/none functional requirements
   7. Risks
   8. Project scope consist of ...
   9. WBS
2. Change management
   1. Types of change
   2. Sources of the change
   3. Change control system
   4. Scope control
   5. Change Request (!!!!)
   6. Implementing the change we should consider
   7. Agile principles in Change Management

Lectures

2014: A single file for all lectures.

Results

• 2014 [Excel]
• 2013 [Excel]
• 2012 [Excel]
• 2011 [Excel]

2014

Presentations

The presentation should be: standard: 15 minutes, minimum 10 minutes (if less then it is rejected)

2014-04-31: Mai Müür, " Retrospectives in agile project management."

2013

Presentations

The presentation should be: standard: 15 minutes, minimum 10 minutes (if less then it is rejected)

2013-05-03: Elise Urva, "Sustainability in project management"
2013-05-03: Håvard Holm Giske, "Risk identification in the large scale projects"
2013-05-03: Katrin Noor, "Challenges in moving to Agile and how to deal with them"

2012

Presentations

The presentation should be: standard: 15 minutes, minimum 10 minutes (if less then it is rejected)

2012-05-13: Katre Karik, "Project management maturity and its assessment"
2012-05-13: Kea Väinoja, "The Role/Importance of Project Manager in Projects"
2012-05-13: Merlin Kolk, "The role of project management to achieve project success"
2012-05-13: Kristel Ojala, "Risk management in agile projects"

2011

Presentations

The presentation should be: standard: 15 minutes, minimum 10 minutes (if less then it is rejected)

2011-05-17: Kadri Soosalu, "Agile in Waterfall Enterprise"
2011-05-17: Al-Emran Ahmed, "The Role of Testing and QA in Agile Software Development"
2011-05-17: Gennadi Jakutin, "Project Management for Distributed Teams"
2011-05-17: Shojib Mahabub, "Product Backlog"
2011-05-17: Habibur Rahman, "Scaling Agile To Work With Distributed Teams"