This workshop presents project leadership planning and implementation for software-oriented projects: IT, product, and research-oriented projects, focusing on how you make decisions for the kind of project you're managing. We’ll also discuss :

• Software/hardware combination projects
• Appropriate scheduling techniques, and review software lifecycles so that you can make the best choice of scheduling techniques.
• Milestone selection, the difference between goals and requirements, and how to technically lead your project.
• The tradeoffs you will need to make regarding cost, schedule, and quality, and how to present those risks and tradeoffs to your management.
• We will discuss typical problems at each part of the lifecycle, how to anticipate, avoid, and work around them.
• We will talk about how to accommodate the need for early shipments and still maintain product schedule and quality.
• Ppragmatic techniques and tips to organizing and managing the work for a successful result.
  

This workshop is targeted at Program Managers, Project Leaders, SQA Managers, Development Managers, Senior Architects, Technical Leads, who need to be able to develop appropriate project plans for a software project and execute those plans, reviewing risks and making appropriate tradeoffs.