[Year 12 SofDev] Scope of project management terms

[YUAN Mel]

Hi,
We did Analysis and Planning together – here are the key bits of my slides.
Critical paths you can do without. Ditto PERT IMHO.
Resources is marginal given the students are managing a resource of 1. (But it is covered in y11 for their group project)
I snuck in some Agile rather than what is really quite dated project management stuff. (I can say this as I am a lapsed PMP http://www.pmi.org/certifications/types/project-management-pmp)
Thanks for all your slides – I use them a lot.
Cheers, Mel




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Mel Yuan


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Subject: [Year 12 SofDev] Scope of project management terms

Hi, workers,

I'm wondering how much depth and detail people are including in their teaching of projman.

The study design for both SD and Info specifically includes the concepts of  milestones and dependencies, so these obviously need to be covered in your theory.

Question A5 in the SD sample exam questions<http://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/Documents/exams/technology/it-softdev-specs-samp.pdf> has 'distractor' options* naming critical paths and resources, which are not named in the design, but are key projman concepts nevertheless.

If I were teaching, I'd find it hard not to be mentioning successors (to complement 'dependencies') and resources.

But I'd force myself to leave out critical paths.
I wouldn't go near lead/lag time and PERT.

(O, dear PERT. Why did VCAA forsake you?)

Mark

* 'Distractor' - My term for a multiple choice option that is tempting, but incorrect.
It is not to be confused with an Irish farmer pointing to his Massey Ferguson.

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